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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China

By Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao

òòò½Íø Review, September 2022

We posit that autocrats introduce local elections when their bureaucratic capacity is low. Local elections exploit citizens' informational advantage in keeping local officials accountable, but they also weaken vertical control. As bureaucratic capacity ...