Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Friday, March 05, 2010

Smilence

I've already posted far above my quota for the day, but I couldn't resist Mark MacKinnon's headline in the Globe and Mail.

'Smilence' is golden in China's parliament
It is known as the period of “smilence” – the 10 days of fixed smiles and silent agreement that are the once-a-year sitting of China's rubber-stamp parliament. Though its job, theoretically, is to safeguard the constitution, proposals put forward by the ruling Communist Party are almost never rejected by the 2,987 legislators who make up the National People's Congress...


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