Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a mi

For over a century, voting has been a surprisingly common political activity in China. Voting as a Rite examines China’s experiments with elections from the p

For over a century, voting has been a surprisingly common political activity in China. Voting as a Rite examines China's experiments with elections from the per

The Power of the Ballot Box analyzes the impact on Taiwanese politics of the "Third Wave" of democratization that swept across East Asia in the last decades of

During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers,