Cover -- Localized Bargaining -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bureaucracies and Localized Bargaining -- 3. Local Ambitions in Central Policymaking -- 4. The "Cardinals" and the "Clerics" -- 5. The Political Geography of High-​Speed Railways -- 6. The Power of the Masses -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a rich description and a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China's high-speed railway. He shows that the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authorities--whom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement various infrastructure projects--shaped the allocation of investment in the railway system. Demonstrating how localities of different types invoke institutional and extra-institutional sources of bargaining power in their competition for railway stations, Ma sheds new light on the how the nation's massi
