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Title
The politics of disaster management in China : institutions, interest groups, and social participation / Gang Chen.
ISBN
9781137557117
1137557117
1137548312 (electronic book)
9781137548313 (electronic book)
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 137 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
9781137557117
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.34/80951
Summary
In China's 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics of China's disaster management. It analyses the factors in China's governance and political process that restrains its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in modern China's disaster politics, with special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization and fragmentation.
Note
In China's 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics of China's disaster management. It analyses the factors in China's governance and political process that restrains its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest groups and civic forces in modern China's disaster politics, with special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization and fragmentation.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Palgrave pivot.
Introduction
Natural disaster management in ancient China
From ROC to PRC: modernization of China's disaster management
The reform era: institutional changes and evolution of norms
Bureaucratic politics at the central level
Central versus local
Military forces in China's disaster management
New challenges from popular politics: NGOs, commercial organizations, social media, and civic society
"Reform 2.0": progress and limits
China's natural disaster management: implications for non-democratic government
Index.
