Collective Resistance in China

Yongshun Cai is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched (2006).

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Yongshun Cai

页数:304

出版时间:2010-2-17

价格:USD 23.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804763400

图书标签:政治学社会运动海外中国研究蔡永顺集体行动中国研究中国政治中国的集体抗争：为什么有些大众抗议成功有些则失败了

Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited. In this new work, Yongshun Cai combines original fieldwork with secondary sources to examine how social protest has become a viable method of resistance in China and, more importantly, why some collective actions succeed while others fail.

Cai looks at the collective resistance of a range of social groups—peasants to workers to homeowners—and explores the outcomes of social protests in China by adopting an analytical framework that operationalizes the forcefulness of protestor action and the cost-benefit calculations of the government. He shows that a protesting group's ability to create and exploit the divide within the state, mobilize participants, or gain extra support directly affects the outcome of its collective action. Moreover, by exploring the government's response to social protests, the book addresses the resilience of the Chinese political system and its implications for social and political developments in China.

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这本书写中国的集体行动，即那些农民、市民以及工人抗争中为什么有的成功了，而有的则失败了，作者加入state response的维度去理解在威权国家的popular resistance，很有启发