Xi Jinping and China’s whole-process democracy: A new form of consultative Leninism
China Information: A Journal on Contemporary China Studies
Published online on August 01, 2025
Abstract
China Information, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 143-168, July 2026.
Since 2021, Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have started to promote ‘whole-process people’s democracy’ (全过程人民民主, hereafter w-p democracy). Presented as superior to Western democracy, it is officially aimed at increasing the public’s ...
Since 2021, Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have started to promote ‘whole-process people’s democracy’ (全过程人民民主, hereafter w-p democracy). Presented as superior to Western democracy, it is officially aimed at increasing the public’s ...