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100			_aO'Brien, Kevin J.
245			_aPopular contention and its impact in rural China
260			_c2005
300			_ap.235-59.
362			_aApr
520			_aProtest outcomes in rural China are typically an outgrowth of interaction between activists, sympathetic elites, targets, and the public. Popular agitation first alerts connected officials to poor policy implementation and may prompt them to take corrective steps. As a result of participating in contention, certain activists feel empowered and become more likely to take part in future challenges, whereas others feel disillusioned and lapse into passivity. In the course of observing collective action, some onlookers are sensitized to protesters' concerns and public opinion is affected. Without popular action, better implementation, biographical change, and effects on the public would not emerge, but nor would they without involvement from above. Studying the impact of this protest thus sheds light on two issues that have long troubled students of contentious policies: (a) how to get a grip on two issues that have long troubled students of contentions politics (a) how to get a grip on indirect, mediated consequences; and (b) how to think about causality when change is a result of popular action as well as openings provided by sympathetic elites. - Reproduced.
650			_aProtest movements - China
650			_aProtest movements
700			_aLi, Lianjiang
773			_aComparative Political Studies
909			_a65161
999			_c65161 _d65161