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De-ideologized mass line, regime responsiveness, and state-society relations / Korolev, Alexander

Korolev, Alexander	Journal Article
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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.

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China ; Public Policy ; New ; Revolutionary Leadership ; Healthcare Reform ; Democratizatio

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M N Roy and Subhas Chandra Bose - a resume / Roy, Dipti Kumar

Roy, Dipti Kumar	Journal Article
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2013.

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The essay aims at analyzing the political behavior of M. N. Roy and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian National Congress from 1936-39. M. N. Roy joined the Congress as a Marxist with a view to radicalize the Congress and bring it under a revolutionary leadership. Subhas Chandra Bose as a leader of the left nationalist force in the Congress was also dissatisfied with general Congress policy and moderate way of Gandhian approach to the anti-colonial movement. During this period both of them came close to each other.

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India ; Indian National Congress ; Gandhian Approach ; Subhas Chandra Bose ; Marxist ; M N Roy ;
Revolutionary Leadership

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