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China´s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change

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Description for China´s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JMC; HBJF; RNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.

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 media, nongovernmental ... Read more

Drawing from extensive field research in some of the most remote parts of Southwest China, China's Water Warriors contains rich narratives of the widespread opposition to dams in Pubugou and Dujiangyan in Sichuan province and the Nu River Project in Yunnan province. Mertha concludes that the impact and occasional success of such grassroots movements and policy activism signal a marked change in China's domestic politics. He questions democratization as the only, or even the most illuminating, indicator of political liberalization in China, instead offering an informed and hopeful picture of a growing pluralization of the Chinese policy process as exemplified by hydropower politics.

For the 2010 paperback edition, Mertha tests his conclusions against events in China since 2008, including the Olympics, the devastating 208 Wenchuan earthquake, and the Uighar and Tibetan protests of 2008 and 2009.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801476686
SKU
V9780801476686
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About Andrew C. Mertha
Andrew C. Mertha is Associate Professor of Chinese Politics at Cornell University. He is the author of The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China, also from Cornell.

Reviews for China´s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change
China's Water Warriors not only enriches our understanding of emergent environmental politics in the People's Republic of China but also directly takes on the evolution of state-society relations and policymaking within the context of the Chinese state. Mertha examines how nonstate actors can have an impact on policy. Mertha points out that the indeterminate outcome of pluralistic politics may impede ... Read more

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