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The Sinews of State Power - The Rise and Demise of The Cohesive Local State in Rural China (Hardcover)
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The Sinews of State Power - The Rise and Demise of The Cohesive Local State in Rural China (Hardcover)
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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.
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