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The Sinews of State Power seeks to explain why rural China has been so unstable since 2000, despite numerous national reforms. Using original fieldwork, it traces the rise and demise of cohesive local states in rural China since the Maoist era. It shows that, the county, township, and village levels of government, when in alliance, have facilitated economic growth and caused social grievances. However, national reforms redressing local deviation, together with individual responses from each level of administration, have dismantled elite alliances, and consequentially undermined the extractive, coercive, and responsive capacity of the state. This book forms dialogue with two fields of inquiry in China studies and comparative politics. First, researches on farmer protest often either focus on farmers' grievances, organizations, and strategies, or examine responses from the state as a uniform entity. This book, instead, highlights the anthropology of the state by looking into elite cohesion across administrative levels that determines the exercise of state capacity. Second, studies of regime stability or endurance have stressed holistic factors, such as institutional adaptability, political culture, or epidemic corruption. The Sinews of State Power instead revisits the fundamental components of a capable government - a coherent and robust local leadership that enables the function of a state.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Basics of Government: Cohesive and Robust Local States
Chapter I
Rural Government and Farmer Protest in Comparative Perspective
Chapter II
The Formation and Institutionalization of Intra-State Cohesion
Chapter III
The Changes and Continuity of Local State Cohesion
Chapter IV
Dismantling The Local State: The Isolated Village Cadres
Chapter V
Implications: Declining Coercive and Extractive Capacities of the State
Conclusion
