China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change

In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has been transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative into a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal opposition, and even open protest, thus illustrating the pluralization (as distinct from "democratization") of the policymaking process in China. A new preface provides updates about recent...