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November 29, 2012

Limits of China's village democracy

Shorenstein APARC, SCP in the news: Wall Street Journal on November 9, 2012

Activists in Wukan, in Guangdong province, have discovered there are limits to grassroots democracy. New research by Jean C. Oi, showing a high percentage of upper-level government overseers in China's villages, highlights the boundaries of the power of local elected officials.