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Chinas Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (9780801476686): Andrew C. Mertha: Books. China's Water Warriors offers an informed and illuminating view of the rapidly changing Chinese policy process. Andrew C. Mertha?s fascinating study of the contemporary politics of hydropower reveals how new actors?journalists, NGO activists, scholars, and even the public at large?influence the Chinese policy process to a degree almost unimaginable a decade or two ago.--Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityAndrew C. Mertha proves that sometimes it's best to approach a topic from the side. To provide the freshest interpretation of Chinese bureaucratic politics in years, he investigates controversies surrounding dam-building. To cast light on state-society relations and the pluralization of Chinese society, he starts with the state. Nearly every page contains something new about issues as different as democratization, protest, and the policy process. Readers will be grappling with Mertha's findings on policy entrepreneurship and issue framing for as long as Chinese leaders are making policies.--Kevin J. O'Brien, Alann P. Bedford Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of Rightful Resistance in Rural ChinaChina's Water Warriors should be read by anyone interested in hydropower politics and the future of government in China. Andrew Mertha's focus on how political pluralism works within a single-party, authoritarian state is highly original.--Bent Flyvbjerg, principal author of Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of AmbitionWhile China has roared ahead with water control and hydropower megaprojects, Western scholarship has been slow to update its stubborn paradigms. This book takes a big step in bringing theory more in line with the complex realities of political pluralism and protest found in China today.--Tim Oakes, University of ColoradoChina's Water Warriors will force a major alteration in the way we understand China today. Andrew C. Mertha uses concepts and ideas from the field of American politics to good effect and ties his cases to critical themes in the field of domestic Chinese politics. He demonstrates the space that the liberalizing and internationalizing polity has been able to clear for the intrusion of new actors; his analyses of the changed role and influence of such players as the media and NGOs are pathbreaking and highly revealing. Mertha's deep knowledge of historical legacies brings nuance and reliability to his fascinating stories, and the vividly told narrative benefits greatly from Mertha's expert skill in asking-and teasing out answers to-subtle and sensitive questions of his informants. --Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine
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