Unbuilt dams: Seminal events and policy change in China, Australia, and the United States

Comparative Politics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-20

  Mertha, Andrew C ^a   Lowry, William R ^a  

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EID: 33845503911     PISSN: 00104159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20434018     Document Type: Review

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1. Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993);
2. William Blomquist, "The Policy Process and Large-N Comparative Studies," in Paul Sabatier, ed., Theories of the Policy Process (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999), pp. 201-30;
3. V O. Key, Southern Politics (New York: Vintage Books, 1949);
4. E. E. Schattschneider, The Semi-Sovereign People (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960).
5. Schattschneider, p. 2.
6. Ibid., p. 3.
7. John W. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), p. 165.
8. See, in a different context, John C. Campbell, How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
9. Lynn Kamenitsa, "The Process of Political Marginalization," Comparative Politics, 30 (April 1998), 313-33;
10. Herbert Kitschelt, "Political Opportunity and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies," British Journal of Political Science, 16 (January 1986), 57-85;
11. Doug McAdam, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999);
12. Sidney Tarrow, Struggle, Politics, and Reform (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
13. Baumgartner and Jones.
14. Kamenitsa; Tarrow.
15. Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith, Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993);
16. Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith, "The Advocacy Coalition Framework," in Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith, eds., Theories of the Policy Process (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), pp. 117-66.
17. Steven M. Buechler, "New Social Movement Theories," Sociological Quarterly, 36 (1995), 441-64;
18. Wendy Nelson Espeland, The Struggle for Water (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
19. In the case of commerce, see Scott Kennedy, The Business of Lobbying in China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005).
20. On the utility of case studies to demonstrate impossibility claims, see Robert Pahre, "Formal Theory and Case-Study Methods in EU Studies," European Union Politics, 6 (January 2005), 113-46.
21. Ian Johnston, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (London: Vintage, 2004), ch. 2.
22. Jeanne Nienaber Clarke and Daniel C. McCool, Staking out the Terrain, 2nd ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996);
23. William R. Lowry, Dam Politics: Restoring America's Rivers (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003);
24. Grant McConnell, Private Power and American Democracy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966);
25. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert (New York: Penguin Books, 1986).
26. Reisner, p. 295.
27. Nash, p. 232. See also Espeland, pp. 78-80; McConnell, ch. 7; Reisner, ch. 8.
28. Roderick F. Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), p. 230.
29. Espeland, p. 21.
30. Reisner, p. 299.
31. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Inventory of Dams (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army, 1995).
32. Espeland, p. 79.
33. Nash, p. 235.
34. Philip Toyne, The Reluctant Nation (Sydney: ABC Books, 1992), p. 45.
35. Philip Toyne, The Reluctant Nation 1992), Ibid., p. 32,
36. See also Elim Papadikis, Politics and the Environment: The Australian Experience (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993).
37. Colin Michael Hall, Wasteland to World Heritage (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992), pp. 198-207; Toyne, p. 42.
38. Aynsley Kellow and Jeremy Moon, "Governing the Environment," in Ian Marsh, ed., Governing in the 1990s (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1993), pp. 226-55; also, Hall, p. 153; Papadikis.
39. Australian National Committee on Large Dams, Register of Large Dams in Australia, 2001, http://www.ancold.org.
40. W. E. Willmott, "Dujiangyan: Irrigation and Society in Sichuan, China," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs. 22 (July 1989), 144.
41. Interview 04DJY02 and 04DJY03, August 26, 2004.
42. Interview 04DJY01, August 5, 2004.
43. The construction bureaucracy is a relatively new bureaucracy and is preoccupied with increasing its administrative power, much like the Quality Technical Supervision Bureaucracy. Interview 04BJ01, August 2, 2004. It strategically picks its battles on those issues for which it stands to gain something politically as well as substantively. Reservoirs tend to flood areas where roads and other infrastructure projects can be built. The construction bureaucracy does not have a hand in dam construction.
44. A pseudonym.
45. Baohu shijie wenhua yichan, fandui xiujian Yangliuhu shuiku [Protect World Heritage Sites, Oppose the Construction of the Yangliuhu Reservoir], Internal Document, Dujiangyan Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, December 22, 2003.
46. Interview 04DJY02, August 26, 2004.
47. Another exception that proves the general rule and is similar to the Yangliuhu debate is the way in which the SARS issue was able to break through official government announcements through the efforts of individuals such as Jiang Yanyong and the Chinese (and foreign) media.
48. There is a similar structure in Guizhou Province. Interview 05GY04, July 11, 2005.
49. In everyday terms, the Dujiangyan Management Bureau has jurisdiction over a thirty meter area on each side of the river. Thus, the restaurants that line the Min River must pay rent to both the Dujiangyan Management Bureau and the Dujiangyan government (and they apparently pay much more to the Dujiangyan Management Bureau). Interviews 04DJY02, 04DJY03, and 04DJY04, August 25, 2004.
50. Interviews 04DJY02, 04DJY03, and 04DJY04, August 25, 2004.
51. Interview 05KM03, April 28, 2005.
52. Dai Qing, Yangtze! Yangtze! (London: Earthsean, 1994).
53. Daniel C. Lynch, After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
54. Paul Sabatier, "Policy Change over a Decade or More," in Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith, eds., p. 17.
55. Interview 05KM03, April 28, 2005.