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Rural Democratic Governance

Concept and Path

  • Book
  • May 2025

Overview

  • Focuses on discussion from the perspective of rural good governance
  • Focuses on Exploring Innovation from the perspective of concept and path
  • On democratic participation and consultation in rural governance

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Keywords

  • Rural Governance
  • Democratic
  • Urbanization
  • Deliberative Democracy
  • Rural Revitalization
  • Cultural Governance
  • Evaluation system
  • Internet Governance
  • Elite participation
  • Non-governmental organizations
  • Rural Geography
  • Urban Geography and Urbanism

About this book

This book explores comprehensively and systematically the concept and path of realizing democratic governance and good governance in rural areas of China, based on a wealth of documents and field investigations, and employing political science, sociology and multi-disciplinary theoretical methods. The aspects investigated include: rural elite participation, rural consultative democracy, governance evaluation, public product supply, social organization cultivation, and rural think tank formation. Further, it assesses rural governance from the perspective of institutional innovation, and offers an outlook on its future in China. Based on current realities and the country’s position, the book underscores the value of dialectical thinking and rural wisdom, while also considering human destiny. Holding both theoretical value and practical significance for rural governance research and rural governance modernization, the book benefits researchers and students of related fields.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Political Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiuling Zhao

About the author

Xiuling Zhao, is Senior Researcher of Political Science, Institute of Political Sciences in CASS. Her research interest is rural governance and Chinese democracy politics. She has published “ancient village’s institutions and system in China”, “general theory of village autonomy in China” and many papers such as “micro-autonomy and grassroots democratic governance”and “deliberative democracy and modernization of rural governance in China”. “The wisdom of capital” won the second national youth outstanding achievement award.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rural Democratic Governance

  • Book Subtitle: Concept and Path

  • Authors: Xiuling Zhao

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: China Social Sciences Press 2025

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4817-2Due: 12 June 2025

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4820-2Due: 12 June 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4818-9Due: 12 June 2025

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 490

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