Rights Consciousness, Economic Interests, and the 2003 District-Level People’s Congress Elections in China: Middle Class Motivations and Democratic Implications

This thesis examines the motivations of the Chinese middle class members to run for District-level people’s congress (DPC) elections in Shenzhen and Beijing in 2003. It is interested in exploring why the middle class members wanted to run for the DPC positions that do not have real political power i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Xinsong
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2005
Subjects:
Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/political_science_theses/1
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=political_science_theses