Tactical Escalation in Rural China; « Escalade tactique » dans la Chine rurale
In: Etudes rurales: anthropologie, économie, géographie, histoire, sociologie ; ER, Heft 179, S. 169-192
ISSN: 1777-537X
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In: Etudes rurales: anthropologie, économie, géographie, histoire, sociologie ; ER, Heft 179, S. 169-192
ISSN: 1777-537X
In: Études rurales: anthropologie, économie, géographie, histoire, sociologie ; ER, Heft 179, S. 169-192
ISSN: 0014-2182
In: China Quarterly, No. 193, pp. 1-23, March 2008
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 235-259
ISSN: 0010-4140
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 235-259
ISSN: 1552-3829
Protest outcomes in rural China are typically an outgrowth of interaction between activists, sympathetic elites, targets, and the public. Popular agitation first alerts concerned officials to poor policy implementation and may prompt them to take corrective steps. As a result of participating in contention, certain activists feel empowered and become more likely to take part in future challenges, whereas others feel disillusioned and lapse into passivity. In the course of observing collective action, some onlookers are sensitized to protesters' concerns and public opinion is affected. Without popular action, better implementation, biographical change, and effects on the public would not emerge, but nor would they without involvement from above. Studying the impact of this protest thus sheds light on two issues that have long troubled students of contentious politics: (a) how to get a grip on indirect, mediated consequences; and (b) how to think about causality when change is a result of popular action as well as openings provided by sympathetic elites.
In: The China journal: Zhongguo yan jiu, Heft 51, S. 75-96
ISSN: 1324-9347
This article examines the dynamics of administrative litigation in rural China. It shows how local officials often attempt to preempt, derail or undermine administrative lawsuits by blocking access to official documents and regulations, pressuring courts to reject cases, failing to appear in court or perjuring themselves, discrediting attorneys, and intimidating litigants. It also discusses, however, how villagers fight back by drawing in sympathetic elites (such as people's congress deputies and the media), mobilizing collective appeals and staging public protests. The paper concludes that administrative litigation provides a useful window on Chinese state-society relations and on the interplay of legal and political mobilization. It also suggests that, should more villagers incorporate administrative litigation into their repertoire of contention, a reform designed to extend the life of an authoritarian regime may play a part in nudging China a step closer to rule of law.(China J/DÜI)
World Affairs Online
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 51, S. 75-96
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: The China quarterly, Band 162, S. 465-489
ISSN: 1468-2648
When residents of a few Guangxi villages decided to elect their own leaders in late 1980 and early 1981, none of them could have known they were starting a historic reform. What began as a stopgap effort to fill a political vacuum, after much debate and two decades of uneven implementation, is now enshrined in a national law. Procedures for holding elections have been spelled out and implementing regulations are being formulated at all levels. Voting is now mandatory every three years in every village, bar none.
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 162, S. 465-489
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 162, S. 465-489
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: Asian survey, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 375-393
ISSN: 1533-838X
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 375-393
ISSN: 0004-4687
World Affairs Online
In: Comparative politics, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 167-186
ISSN: 0010-4159
World Affairs Online
In: Comparative politics, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 167
ISSN: 2151-6227
In: The China quarterly, Band 143, S. 756-783
ISSN: 1468-2648
It all began when angry villagers accused the Party secretary of turning off the electricity to an ice lolly(binggunror popsicle) factory whose owner had refused to pay bribes. The lolly maker had not been paying his rent but that was no reason, they said, to melt his stock and to cause the bank to foreclose on the village's most profitable enterprise.