cam a22 8 4500 551397063 CHVBK 20201114040126.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 170213s2017 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2016050251 978-0-19-060573-5 (hardback) 978-0-19-060575-9 (epub) 978-0-19-060951-1 (online component) (SERSOL)ssj0001756162 (WaSeSS)ssj0001756162 DLC eng DLC WaSeSS rda JS7353.A8 W3244 2017 320.8/40951 23 POL009000 bisacsh Wang Juan The sinews of state power the rise and demise of the cohesive local state in rural China Juan Wang, McGill University New York, NY Oxford University Press 2017 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-232) and index. Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Basics of Government: Cohesive and Robust Local States -- Chapter I -- Rural Government and Farmer Protest in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter II -- The Formation and Institutionalization of Intra-State Cohesion -- Chapter III -- The Changes and Continuity of Local State Cohesion -- Chapter IV -- Dismantling The Local State: The Isolated Village Cadres -- Chapter V -- Implications: Declining Coercive and Extractive Capacities of the State -- Conclusion. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "The Sinews of State Power seeks to explain why rural China has been so unstable since 2000, despite numerous national reforms. Using original fieldwork, it traces the rise and demise of cohesive local states in rural China since the Maoist era. It shows that, the county, township, and village levels of government, when in alliance, have facilitated economic growth and caused social grievances. However, national reforms redressing local deviation, together with individual responses from each level of administration, have dismantled elite alliances, and consequentially undermined the extractive, coercive, and responsive capacity of the state. This book forms dialogue with two fields of inquiry in China studies and comparative politics. First, researches on farmer protest often either focus on farmers' grievances, organizations, and strategies, or examine responses from the state as a uniform entity. This book, instead, highlights the anthropology of the state by looking into elite cohesion across administrative levels that determines the exercise of state capacity. Second, studies of regime stability or endurance have stressed holistic factors, such as institutional adaptability, political culture, or epidemic corruption. The Sinews of State Power instead revisits the fundamental components of a capable government - a coherent and robust local leadership that enables the function of a state. "-- "Based on original fieldwork, The Sinews of State Power seeks to understand continuous rural instability in China despite national reforms in the post-2000s. It offers a fresh perspective by revisiting the fundamental components of a capable government -a coherent and robust local leadership, and tracing its rise and demise since the Maoist era"-- Local government China Central-local government relations China POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative bisacsh China Rural conditions China Politics and government 2002- https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190605735.001.0001/acprof-9780190605735 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4051808 IDSBB 100 1- Wang Juan IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190605735.001.0001/acprof-9780190605735 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 48311006X