Xiao Ma Localized Bargaining (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

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Title: Localized Bargaining
Condition: New
Author: Xiao Ma
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Subtitle: The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program
ISBN-10: 0197648223
EAN: 9780197648223
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780197648223
Release Date: 10/12/2022
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 234mm
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics
Description: 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.
Item Length: 154mm
Item Width: 15mm
Item Weight: 363g
Release Year: 2022

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