Rightful resistance in rural China /
"How can the poor and weak "work" a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "How can the poor and weak "work" a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the central government to try to fight misconduct by local officials, open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the frontiers of the permissible. This "rightful resistance" has far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious politics."--Jacket. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 179 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-168) and index. |
ISBN: | 0511161611 9780511161612 9780511791086 0511791089 9780511160882 0511160887 0511191685 9780511191688 |