Localized Bargaining

The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program

Xiao Ma (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-764822-3 (ISBN)

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Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role.

China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the striking regional and temporal variation in such investments. In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's unprecedented high-speed railway program. Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews, original data sets, and surveys with local officials, Ma details how the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authorities—whom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement various infrastructure projects—shaped the allocation of investment in the railway system. Demonstrating how localities of different types invoke institutional and extra-institutional sources of bargaining power in their competition for railway stations, Ma sheds new light on how the nation's massive bureaucracy actually functions.

Xiao Ma is an assistant professor of political science at Peking University. He teaches and conducts research on comparative political institutions, political economy of development, and Chinese politics. In particular, Ma's research examines how institutions and incentives shape elite behaviors and policymaking in developing states like China. His research is published or forthcoming in numerous political science and area studies journals, including Journal of East Asian Studies, Security Studies, Political Communication, The China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, China: An International Journal, The China Quarterly, and Journal of Chinese Governance.

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Bureaucracies and Localized Bargaining
Chapter 3: Local Ambitions in Central Policymaking
Chapter 4: The "Cardinals" and the "Clerics"
Chapter 5: The Political Geography of High-speed Railways
Chapter 6: The Power of the Masses
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2022
Zusatzinfo	7 figures; 31 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-764822-3 / 0197648223
ISBN-13	978-0-19-764822-3 / 9780197648223
Zustand	Neuware