They said there are no ballot elections in china but I do believe they vote on leaders based on approval voting at the local level.
I didn’t catch that. I believe those elections are not for the party, but for the National People’s Congress.
Huh. Does anyone have a good resource about how local to nationwide democratic Centralism works? Can’t really look on Prolewiki considering it’s down at the moment. How does one become a high position? Just by over time?
Are you asking about the NPC specifically? Deputies are elected using a bottom-up approach starting at the local level. The bottom level deputies then elect the next level above them, and so on.
I haven’t read it myself, but here’s an essay titled China’s democracy: how the National People’s Congress works from trusted source Friends of Socialist China.
