| ID | 153566 |
| Title Proper | De-ideologized mass line, regime responsiveness, and state-society relations |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Korolev, Alexander |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Once the primary method of revolutionary leadership, the “mass line”
has reemerged in today’s China as a method of public policy making.
Th is study explores and theorizes the implications of mass-line tactics
in policy making and state-society relations in contemporary China. At
the theoretical level, it argues that the de-ideologized mass line in
combination with traditional forms of nonmobilized participation can
enhance government responsiveness to the broader public interest. Th e
mass line can complement traditional forms of voluntary participation
in that it can allow better representation of social groups who regularly
fail to articulate their needs through the existing participation mechanisms
and who therefore remain outside of the policy-making process.
Empirically, the paper draws on existing Chinese studies, official
document analysis, and unstructured interviews with Chinese
academics to provide examples for the theoretical argument. Th is study
analyzes the workings of the mass-line tactics in China during the New
Healthcare Reform and the formation of the 12th Five-Year Plan. If
implemented not as a propaganda tool but as a mechanism of interest
articulation and aggregation, the mass line has the potential to off er
China alternative routes of democratization. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Review Vol. 17, No.2; Jun 2017: p.7-36 |
| Journal Source | China Review 2017-08 17, 2 |
| Key Words | China ; Public Policy ; New ; Revolutionary Leadership ; Healthcare Reform ; Democratizatio |