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153405
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While the literature on Chinese environmental politics tends to examine NGO actions and popular protests as two separate facets of environmental activism, such a tendency runs the risk of missing the linkages that have begun to emerge among environmental forces. This new phenomenon is highlighted with a case study of local opposition against the siting of an oil refining plant in Kunming through the lens of political opportunity theory. Two forms of linkages are identified, namely the linkages between local communities and local NGOs and the linkages between local and supra-local NGOs. These linkages emerged and developed through dynamic interactions between political opportunities and contentious actions. Citizen-initiated protests in Kunming pressured the local government to adopt a receptive attitude for the purpose of maintaining social stability, which paradoxically expanded political opportunities for NGO participation. The structural political environment of the locality indirectly facilitated collaboration between local and supra-local environmental NGOs by activating prior social networks among key NGO members. The analysis of the dynamic linkages among environmental forces reflects the prospects of a broader environmental movement and its relation to political contexts.
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106915
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076962
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2007.
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Ray Forrest - Ray Forrest is Professor of Urban Studies and Associate Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is co-director (with Professor Ade Kearns, University of Glasgow) of the ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a founding member and on the steering group of the Asia Pacific Network of Housing Researchers. He has published extensively on urban and housing issues in academic journals, books and policy reports. Current research interests focus on the role and meaning of neighbourhood in the contemporary city; housing markets, the macro economy and globalization; housing and social stratification.; Ngai-Ming Yip - Ngai-ming Yip is Associate Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. He is a registered social worker and a registered professional housing manager as well as member of the executive committee of the Chartered Institute of Housing Asian Pacific Branch. His research interests focus on the neighbourhood in the contemporary city, housing and social stratification and the social implication of housing management. He has published on housing, urban and social issues in academic journals and books. His current research projects include a comparative study on private housing governance in three Chinese cities and comparing housing policy between China and Vietnam. The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Strategic Research Grant from City University of Hong Kong (project #7100276) and British Academy Grant SG36683. Thanks also to three anonymous referees for their constructive comments on an earlier version of this paper.
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081528
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2008.
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Vietnam has emerged recently as one of the fastest growing economies and widely be perceived as the next transition tiger. State capacity, which is believed to be pivotal to the success of the NIC, is under scrutiny in Vietnam. This paper attempts to examine state capacity of Vietnam in the institutional, political, administrative and technical aspects employing examples in urban and housing development. This paper argues that despite the permeation of state machinery into every levels of society and creates an outlook of a strong socialist party state, state capacity in Vietnam is in fact rather weak. Although the country is striving hard in strengthen its capacity in various areas, such reforms are either yet to take root or being dragged by legacy of the old regime. The unique state-society relationship in Vietnam also shapes the trajectories of adaptation of state capacity in the course of rapidly changing economic and social environment
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