Localized Bargaining : The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program.
In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a rich description and a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's high-speed railway. He shows that the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authorities--whom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a rich description and a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's high-speed railway. He shows that 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 the how the nation's massi. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197638934 0197638937 0197638945 9780197638941 |