Are Chinese online forums a promising sign of the rise of a reasoning civil society, or are they merely meeting places for the rash and politically extreme? It would seem that politically-interested citizens on the Chinese internet are indeed driving public opinion, and ultimately, policy-making.
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Johan Lagerkvist (2005) studied this question.
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