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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ma, Xiao
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022.
Subjects:	High speed trains > Political aspects > China. High speed trains > China > Economic conditions. Intergovernmental fiscal relations > China. Railroads and state > China. Trains à grande vitesse > Aspect politique > Chine. Trains à grande vitesse > Chine > Conditions économiques. Transports ferroviaires > Politique gouvernementale > Chine. Comparative Politics. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Political Process. Geopolitics. Intergovernmental fiscal relations Railroads and state China Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Localized Bargaining
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Bureaucracies and Localized Bargaining
3. Local Ambitions in Central Policymaking
4. The "Cardinals" and the "Clerics"
5. The Political Geography of High-Speed Railways
6. The Power of the Masses
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index