Speakers include Yuen Yuen Ang, U-M Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Mayling Birney, London School of Economics. In a one-party regime where government officials are not elected to power, what keeps them in check, if at all? What are some alternative mechanisms of accountability besides elections and formal political competition? And how effective are they? This panel brings together three political scientists to discuss the function and limits of non-electoral mechanisms of checks and accountability in contemporary China. These include online activism, a ”˜rule of mandates’ alternative to rule of law, and market-based media.