02397 a2200409 4500 1032087390 20250317100412.0 250312042021GB 2 eng 9781032087399 Taylor & Francis GBP 41.99 BB 01 eng JHB thema GTM thema JB thema GTP thema JPWA thema 1FPC bisac JHB bic GTB bic JF bic GTF bic JPVK bic 1FPC bisac POL054000 bisac POL000000 bisac POL017000 bisac SOC026000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 323.0420951242 bisac Dragan Pavlićević Public Participation and State Building in China Case Studies from Zhejiang 1 Oxford Routledge 20210630 180 p This book explores non-electoral means of public participation in contemporary China, both as an outcome of and a key contributor to the party-state’s efforts to improve its governing capacity. Examining consultative meetings, public hearings, and the use of surveys and questionnaires in Zhejiang province, on an empirical level, the study evaluates the historical development and institutional backgrounds of these mechanisms, as well as provides a critical assessment of their achievements and failures. At the same time, on a theoretical level, this book contributes to the broader scholarship on contemporary Chinese politics and political development within one-party regimes, as well as debates about state building and democratisation. Relying on the distinction between access to and exercise of power, it concludes that non-electoral public participation is in fact a function of state building. Developing a state capable of producing effective solutions to governing challenges, it is argued, requires public participation in the governing process. With analysis informed by interviews with local-level policy-makers and officials, academics, and citizens’ representatives and activists, Public Participation and State Building in China will be a valuable research resource for students and scholars of Chinese politics, political science, and civil society. 2489 2489