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Money in Politics, at Top and Bottom

Evan Osnos examines the role of bribery in elections for some of China’s more potentially lucrative local positions, and its implications for the health of these democratic experiments. From The New Yorker:For Yang Kang—I’ve changed her name, for reasons that will be clear—this was only her second chance to cast a ballot in her hometown, a village rapidly being swallowed by sprawl on the ed