Representation and Local People’s Congresses in China: A Case Study of the Yangzhou Municipal People’s Congress |
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Authors: | Tomoki Kamo Hiroki Takeuchi |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Policy Management, Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), 5322 Endoh, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan 2. Department of Political Science, Southern Methodist University, 3300 University Blvd., PO Box 750117, Dallas, TX, 75275-0117, USA
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Abstract: | Local people’s congresses have become increasingly active, carrying out legislative activities and (supposedly) supervising state organizations. Based on the analysis of bills submitted to Yangzhou Municipal People’s Congresses, we find that congress delegates have increasingly represented the interests and demands of the geographic areas from which they are elected, and that the local people’s congress has become a place to present and coordinate various competing interests, which are often contradictory to the interests of the local Party committee that represents the higher authority of the state. In other words, the local people’s congress has become a place where two interests intersect: the “central” interests represented by the local Party committee and the “local” interests represented by the local people’s congress delegates. |
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