This book provides empirical evidence to show how democratic experiments are harnessed to achieve control and support authoritarianism, through the lens of participatory pricing, which is one of the most important forms of deliberative democracy in China.
Xuan Qin is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences in Fudan University. She received her Ph.D. from the Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include democratic theory and statistical analysis. She currently serves as an Editor for the Chinese Political Science Review.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: History and Background Information.- Chapter 3: Mechanism of Government Control.- Chapter 4: Case Study.- Chapter 5: Participants’ Responses towards the Control Mechanism.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.