Autocrats' Dilemma: The Dual Impacts of Village Elections on Public Opinion in China.
How do authoritarian elections affect voters' attitudes toward the regime and their support for democracy? This article draws upon the case of village elections in China to argue that elections may have two simultaneous effects. First, free and fair elections increase citizens' confidence in the gov...
| Publicado en: | China Journal no. 71; pp. 109 - 132 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jan2014
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