"The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China"
How autocracy atop democracy to deliver economic development in China?
source: 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China by Dong Fang.
Since 1979, China started adapting some of the western democratic models of governance as parts of Deng Xiaoping's grand plans for reform and opening up. Among these initiatives was holding elections at the bottom of Chinese society (Villages). This strategy was widely contr…