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Why should we develop grassroots democracy? There are many reasons and plenty of theoretical resources for it. However, if we carefully observe the transformation of China’s grassroots society, especially the new structure emerging in the grassroots organizational system, we can find that grassroots democracy actually is the realistic requirement of such a profound organizational transformation.
This article was published in Zhongguo fazhan guancha (China Development Observation), 2007 (5).
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Zhao, S. (2017). Grassroots Organizations and Grassroots Democracy. In: The Politics of Peasants. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4341-3_12
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