China's Water Warriors Citizen Action and Policy Change

Name: China's Water Warriors Citizen Action and Policy Change
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ISBN: 9780801476686

ISBN-10: 0801476682

ISBN-13: 9780801476686

Edition: 2014

Authors: Andrew C. Mertha

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Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal opposition, and open protest. Although bargaining has always been present in Chinese politics, more recently the…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


List of Selected Institutions and Abbreviations


Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface



China's Hydraulic Society?



Actors, Interests, and Issues at Stake



From Policy Conflict to Political Showdown: The Failure at Pubugou



From Economic Development to Cultural Heritage: Expanding the Sphere at Dujiangyan



The Nu River Project and the Middle Ground of Political Pluralization



A Kinder, Gentler "Fragmented Authoritarianism"?


Index