In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in the belief that legal institutions would enhance both stability and regime legitimacy. Why, then, did China’s leadership retreat from using law when faced with perceived increases in protests, citizen complaints, and social discontent in the 2000s? This law-stability paradox suggests that party-state leaders do not trust legal institutions to play primary roles in addressing many of the most complex issues resulting from China’s rapid social transformation. This signifies a retreat not only from legal reform, but also from the rule-based model of authoritarian governance that has contributed much to the resilience of the Chinese system. The ...
Over the past two and half decades, much has been written about China\u27s ongoing economic reforms....
Examines the major turning points in Chinese legal theory and legal practices since the 1990s, when ...
In the fall of 2014, Chinese Communist Party authorities made legal reform the focus of their annual...
In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in...
In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in...
In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in...
Chinese authorities are reconsidering legal reforms they enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. These refor...
The activist disposition of China's legal institutions in the era of Harmonious Society and Stabilit...
Most recent Western popular and scholarly writing on legal reform in China has focused on two appare...
Over the past thirty years China has engaged in what is perhaps the most rapid development of any le...
China's thirty years of economic development has brought on a number of crippling problems: high ine...
Just as economic reforms were beginning in 19789-1979 and China’s leaders announced that China was g...
China’s reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it – political stability, ideological ...
The picture of Chinese law that many Western scholars and commentators portray is an increasingly bl...
This thesis brings forward a phenomenon and one question. The phenomenon is that, in China, laws are...
Over the past two and half decades, much has been written about China\u27s ongoing economic reforms....
Examines the major turning points in Chinese legal theory and legal practices since the 1990s, when ...
In the fall of 2014, Chinese Communist Party authorities made legal reform the focus of their annual...
In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in...
In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in...
In the 1980s and 1990s, China devoted extensive resources to constructing a legal system, in part in...
Chinese authorities are reconsidering legal reforms they enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. These refor...
The activist disposition of China's legal institutions in the era of Harmonious Society and Stabilit...
Most recent Western popular and scholarly writing on legal reform in China has focused on two appare...
Over the past thirty years China has engaged in what is perhaps the most rapid development of any le...
China's thirty years of economic development has brought on a number of crippling problems: high ine...
Just as economic reforms were beginning in 19789-1979 and China’s leaders announced that China was g...
China’s reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it – political stability, ideological ...
The picture of Chinese law that many Western scholars and commentators portray is an increasingly bl...
This thesis brings forward a phenomenon and one question. The phenomenon is that, in China, laws are...
Over the past two and half decades, much has been written about China\u27s ongoing economic reforms....
Examines the major turning points in Chinese legal theory and legal practices since the 1990s, when ...
In the fall of 2014, Chinese Communist Party authorities made legal reform the focus of their annual...