Contentious Politics in China : Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences.
Elfstrom, Manfred.
Contentious Politics in China : Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences. - Boston : BRILL, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (96 pages) - Brill Research Perspectives Ser. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Contents -- Contentious Politics in China: Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 The Broad Landscape of Chinese Protest -- 1.1 Labor Unrest -- 1.2 Rural Conflict -- 1.3 Environmental Advocacy -- 1.4 Nationalist Protest -- 1.5 National Self-Determination Struggles -- 1.6 Emerging Areas of Conflict -- 2 Economic Structural Explanations of Chinese Contention -- 3 Political Opportunity Explanations of Chinese Contention -- 4 Forms of Organization -- 5 Issue Framing -- 6 Empowerment and Weakness -- 7 Government Responses to Protests -- 7.1 Coercive Institutions 7.2 Conciliatory Institutions -- 7.2.1 Legal Institutions -- 7.2.2 The Petitioning System -- 7.2.3 Trade Unions -- 7.2.4 Village Elections -- 7.2.5 The Limits of Conciliatory Institutions -- 7.3 Forms of Soft and Hard Repression -- 7.4 Forms of Tolerance, Concessions, and Combined Responses -- 7.5 Explaining Repressive and Tolerant Responses to Unrest -- 7.6 Explaining Concessions and the Lack Thereof -- 7.7 Implications for the Chinese State -- 7.8 Implications for the Aggrieved Chinese -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Author Biographies
"China has become a land of protests, though the Chinese state possesses considerable administrative capacity. In this volume, Manfred Elfstrom and Yao Li provide an overview of Chinese contentious politics. They dig deep into major forms of social conflict, explore structural explanations for why protest occurs in China, and describe the ways in which various organizations and framings of issues by citizens affect how protests play out. Shifting to where grassroots activism ultimately leads, Elfstrom and Li survey China's coercive and conciliatory institutions for maintaining social control, document and explain patterns in the state's handling of different types of resistance, and examine the social and political impact of unrest. This work not only contributes to a deeper understanding of contentious politics and governance in China, but also provides insights for studies of social movements and authoritarian politics in general".
9004425128 9789004425125
Anthropology.
Electronic Books.
HN733 / .C668 2019
Contentious Politics in China : Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences. - Boston : BRILL, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (96 pages) - Brill Research Perspectives Ser. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Contents -- Contentious Politics in China: Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 The Broad Landscape of Chinese Protest -- 1.1 Labor Unrest -- 1.2 Rural Conflict -- 1.3 Environmental Advocacy -- 1.4 Nationalist Protest -- 1.5 National Self-Determination Struggles -- 1.6 Emerging Areas of Conflict -- 2 Economic Structural Explanations of Chinese Contention -- 3 Political Opportunity Explanations of Chinese Contention -- 4 Forms of Organization -- 5 Issue Framing -- 6 Empowerment and Weakness -- 7 Government Responses to Protests -- 7.1 Coercive Institutions 7.2 Conciliatory Institutions -- 7.2.1 Legal Institutions -- 7.2.2 The Petitioning System -- 7.2.3 Trade Unions -- 7.2.4 Village Elections -- 7.2.5 The Limits of Conciliatory Institutions -- 7.3 Forms of Soft and Hard Repression -- 7.4 Forms of Tolerance, Concessions, and Combined Responses -- 7.5 Explaining Repressive and Tolerant Responses to Unrest -- 7.6 Explaining Concessions and the Lack Thereof -- 7.7 Implications for the Chinese State -- 7.8 Implications for the Aggrieved Chinese -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Author Biographies
"China has become a land of protests, though the Chinese state possesses considerable administrative capacity. In this volume, Manfred Elfstrom and Yao Li provide an overview of Chinese contentious politics. They dig deep into major forms of social conflict, explore structural explanations for why protest occurs in China, and describe the ways in which various organizations and framings of issues by citizens affect how protests play out. Shifting to where grassroots activism ultimately leads, Elfstrom and Li survey China's coercive and conciliatory institutions for maintaining social control, document and explain patterns in the state's handling of different types of resistance, and examine the social and political impact of unrest. This work not only contributes to a deeper understanding of contentious politics and governance in China, but also provides insights for studies of social movements and authoritarian politics in general".
9004425128 9789004425125
Anthropology.
Electronic Books.
HN733 / .C668 2019