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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: O'Brien, Kevin J., 1957- (Autor), Li, Lianjiang (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
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