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Informational inclusion: reflection work in China’s local people’s political consultative conferences

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  • Rebekka Åsnes Sagild

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The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conferences (CPPCCs) tend to be disregarded in scholarly work for lacking formal political powers. This overlooks the fact that the CPPCC has a range of embedded input functions for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including the task of reflecting popular opinions and social issues (反映社情民意fanying sheqing minyi). This article looks closer at this aspect of the CPPCC, drawing on interviews, internal documents, and publicly available information. The findings highlight the complex relationship between officially defined purpose, top-down control, and local practice of reflection-work. Despite the divergence between expressed and intended goals, in practice, this form of CPPCC-work can both be a way to engage CPPCC-members in solving issues of local governance, as well a channel for, broadly defined, political inclusion at the local level in China.

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  • Rebekka Åsnes Sagild, 2019. "Informational inclusion: reflection work in China’s local people’s political consultative conferences," Journal of Chinese Governance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(3), pages 252-266, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:4:y:2019:i:3:p:252-266
    DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1635402
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