Andrew Mertha is professor of government, specializing in Chinese and Cambodian politics, particularly on political institutions, the policy process, and the exercise of power.
He is a core faculty member in the Cornell East Asia Program and the Cornell Southeast Asia Program. He is also the Director of the China and Asia Pacific Studies Program.
Mertha’s Ph.D. (2001) is from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mertha has written three books, The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China (Cornell University Press, 2005), China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell University Press, 2008), and Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 (Cornell University Press, 2014).
Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal opposition, and open protest.
Although bargaining has always been present in Chinese politics, more recently the media, nongovernmental organizations, and other activists—actors hitherto denied a seat at the table—have emerged as serious players in the policy-making process. Drawing from extensive field research in some of the most remote parts of Southwest China, China's Water Warriors contains rich narratives of the widespread opposition to dams in Pubugou and Dujiangyan in Sichuan province and the Nu River Project in Yunnan province.
Mertha concludes that the impact and occasional success of such grassroots movements and policy activism signal a marked change in China's domestic politics. He questions democratization as the only, or even the most illuminating, indicator of political liberalization in China, instead offering an informed and hopeful picture of a growing pluralization of the Chinese policy process as exemplified by hydropower politics.
For the 2010 paperback edition, Mertha tests his conclusions against events in China since 2008, including the Olympics, the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and the Uighar and Tibetan protests of 2008 and 2009.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 政治 政治學 Politics 中國 社會抗爭 社會學 環境
又齣現瞭……決定加一顆星。自己寫過case之後就覺得Mertha寫的也沒那麼爛。
評分conclusion提的liberalization through pluralization挺有意思,不過作為一個腦殘民主擁戴者覺著這樣不徹底。。
評分本書作為理解商業媒體時代的中國官僚體製有很大幫助。如果沒時間看書可以看作者2008年在China Quarterly的文章,該文我會用來教本科生、研究生、博士生。
評分本書作為理解商業媒體時代的中國官僚體製有很大幫助。如果沒時間看書可以看作者2008年在China Quarterly的文章,該文我會用來教本科生、研究生、博士生。
評分conclusion提的liberalization through pluralization挺有意思,不過作為一個腦殘民主擁戴者覺著這樣不徹底。。
China's Water Warriors 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載