Authoritarian Legality In China

Author : Mary E. Gallagher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316033430
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authoritarian Legality in China written by Mary E. Gallagher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can authoritarian regimes use democratic institutions to strengthen and solidify their rule? The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the world and opened up the judicial system to adjudicate workplace conflict, emboldening China's workers to use these laws. This book examines these patterns of legal mobilization, showing which workers are likely to avail themselves of these new protections and find them effective. Gallagher finds that workers with high levels of education are far more likely to claim these new rights and be satisfied with the results. However, many others, left disappointed with the large gap between law on the books and law in reality, reject the courtroom for the streets. Using workers' narratives, surveys, and case studies of protests, Gallagher argues that China's half-hearted attempt at rule of law construction undermines the stability of authoritarian rule. New workplace rights fuel workers' rising expectations, but a dysfunctional legal system drives many workers to more extreme options, including strikes, demonstrations and violence.

Author : Weitseng Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496687
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authoritarian Legality in Asia written by Weitseng Chen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.

Author : Shucheng Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009152564
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law as an Instrument written by Shucheng Wang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang shows how the law in China is conceptually reconfigured and instrumentally employed to shore up an illiberal authoritarian regime.

Author : Eva Pils
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509500731
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in China written by Eva Pils and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of interaction with Chinese human rights defenders, Pils discusses what gives rise to systematic human rights violations, what institutional avenues of protection are available, and how social practices of human rights defence have evolved. Three central areas are addressed: liberty and integrity of the person; freedom of thought and expression; and inequality and socio-economic rights. Pils argues that the Party-State system is inherently opposed to human rights principles in all these areas, and that – contributing to a global trend – it is becoming more repressive. Yet, despite authoritarianism's lengthening shadows, China’s human rights movement has so far proved resourceful and resilient. The trajectories discussed here will continue to shape the struggle for human rights in China and beyond its borders.

Author : Ya-Wen Lei
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196141
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contentious Public Sphere written by Ya-Wen Lei and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using interviews, newspaper articles, online texts, official documents, and national surveys, Lei shows that the development of the public sphere in China has provided an unprecedented forum for citizens to organize, influence the public agenda, and demand accountability from the government.

Author : Weitseng Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107138434
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beijing Consensus? written by Weitseng Chen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exploring whether a distinctive Chinese model for law and economic development exists.

Author : Yuhua Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107071747
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tying the Autocrat's Hands written by Yuhua Wang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tying the Autocrat's Hands provides a comprehensive, empirical evaluation of legal reforms in contemporary China. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork and analyses of original data, the book tells a story in which foreign investors with weak political connections push for judicial empowerment in China, while Chinese investors struggle to hold on to their privileges.

Author : Christopher Heurlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110810780X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsive Authoritarianism in China written by Christopher Heurlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can protests influence policymaking in a repressive dictatorship? Responsive Authoritarianism in China sheds light on this important question through case studies of land takings and demolitions - two of the most explosive issues in contemporary China. In the early 2000s, landless farmers and evictees unleashed waves of disruptive protests. Surprisingly, the Chinese government responded by adopting wide-ranging policy changes that addressed many of the protesters' grievances. Heurlin traces policy changes from local protests in the provinces to the halls of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing. In doing so, he highlights the interplay between local protests, state institutions, and elite politics. He shows that the much-maligned petitioning system actually plays an important role in elevating protesters' concerns to the policymaking agenda. Delving deep into the policymaking process, the book illustrates how the State Council and NPC have become battlegrounds for conflicts between ministries and local governments over state policies.

Author : Carl Minzner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190672102
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book End of an Era written by Carl Minzner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, and on the surface, their efforts have been a success. But as Carl Minzner shows, a closer look at China's reform era reveals a different truth. Over the past three decades, a frozen political system has fueled both the rise of entrenched interests within the Communist Party itself, and the systematic underdevelopment of institutions of governance among state and society at large. Economic cleavages have widened. Social unrest has worsened. Ideological polarization has deepened. Now, to address these looming problems, China's leaders are progressively cannibalizing institutional norms and practices that have formed the bedrock of the regime's stability in the reform era. End of an Era explains how China arrived at this dangerous turning point, and outlines the potential outcomes that could result.

Author : Pierre F. Landry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139472631
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decentralized Authoritarianism in China written by Pierre F. Landry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime's imperative to control them politically. Landry explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manages local officials in order to meet these goals and perpetuate an unusually decentralized authoritarian regime. Using unique data collected at the municipal, county, and village level, Landry examines in detail how the promotion mechanisms for local cadres have allowed the CCP to reward officials for the development of their localities without weakening political control. His research shows that the CCP's personnel management system is a key factor in explaining China's enduring authoritarianism and proves convincingly that decentralization and authoritarianism can work hand in hand.