Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program Ma Xiao
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program Ma Xiao Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local…
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Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China's High-Speed Railway Program Ma Xiao
Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role.China's high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's unprecedented high-speed railway program. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the striking regional and temporal variation in such investments.
Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews, original data sets, and surveys with local officials, Ma details how the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authorities--whom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement various