Unorthodox approaches to participation in authoritarian regimes : the making of China's recent healthcare reforms

In recent years, non-democratic regimes have introduced a host of participatory forums. This paper asks why, given the absence of binding constitutional or institutional designs, authoritarian governments introduce, at their own initiative, participatory forums? To respond to this question, the pape...

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Main Author: Kornreich, Yoel
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38163