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Grassroots balloting has also had a perceptible effect on villagers’ attitudes. Kevin has argued that elections are not only
efforts to draw rural people into the local polity, but they are also an avenue through
which citizenship practices may emerge before full citizenship is recognized.
Li has shown that free and fair elections enhance feelings of political
efficacy and can help implant the idea that political power derives from the consent of
the people. And in a recent study of a long-time ‘demonstration’ area,
Schubert suggest that elections can boost regime
legitimacy, owing to a ‘rational trust’ that villagers come to have in their leaders, in
which elections assure voters that this trust will be honored.