Citizen Participation in China

Citizen participation is one of the essential issues for democracy. The value of democracy cannot be realized without citizen participation. Taking citizen participation as citizen power, this book studied on 6 cases which represented different levels of citizen power. The six cases included: participatory budgeting by Township Chinese People' s Congress, public policy advocacy, NGOs participation in government procurement, participatory governance in urban communities, participation governance by farms' organization in rural area, and participatory governance among the migrant workers. The book studied the essential mechanism, principles, problem, results, and preconditions of the cases.

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Xijin Jia, Associate Professor of School of Public Policy and Management in Tsinghua University of China. Researching on civil society and social transformation, she has 5 books and 50 articles published. Her current research focused on citizen participation, comparative research on civil society, and political reform in China,etc.