Localized bargaining : the political economy of China's high speed railway program / Xiao Ma.

"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...

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Main Author: Ma, Xiao, 1988- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York, NY] : Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Summary:"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"--Supplied by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780197638927
0197638929
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.