Geography, Election Quality, and Political Behavior in China.

This paper brings survey data to bear on two central research questions pertaining to China: whether geography matters for election quality and for political behavior, and whether election quality, in turn, matters for political behavior. The two clearest implications from the analysis are (1) distance from political centers does matter for election quality and (2) election quality matters for explaining voting behavior. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]