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- Title
Political Participation in China: Towards a New Definition and Typology.
- Authors
Ma, Zhihao; Cao, Yujue
- Abstract
Political participation has become an important topic in contemporary political thinking. Western scholars' views that reflect experiences in Western societies have become predominant theoretical articulations on political participation. This study offers a critical review of the conceptual frameworks of political participation in democratic and non-democratic societies. Drawing on previous research, it has developed a new definition and typology of political participation in China. It eschews voluntarism in the Western definition of political activities and participation to creatively propose a well-developed definition of political participation in China for which it constructs a ladder model. This study summarises Chinese political participation according to four categories: non-participation, tokenism, active participation, and radical participation. This study proposes a typology that motivates us to think of many issues, including online interactions. This study makes a much-needed contribution to the literature on the theoretical development of political participation in China.
- Subjects
CHINA; POLITICAL participation; CHINESE Communist Party; POLITICAL development; WESTERN society; VOLUNTEER service; DEFINITIONS
- Publication
Social Sciences (2076-0760), 2023, Vol 12, Issue 10, p531
- ISSN
2076-0760
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/socsci12100531