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Author: Weitseng Chen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1108496687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.
Author: Anthony J. Spires
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-08
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1000605493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type that is re-appearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization. By organizing its approach into four main themes, this volume succinctly reveals the challenges facing civil society in authoritarian regimes, including: actions under political repression, transitions to democracy, uncivil society, political capture and legal control. It features in-depth analyses of a variety of Asian nations, from ‘hard’ authoritarian regimes, like China, to ‘electoral’ authoritarian regimes, like Cambodia, whilst also addressing countries experiencing democratic regression, such as the Philippines. By highlighting concrete responses and initiatives taken by civil society under authoritarianism, it advances the intellectual mandate of redefining Asia as a dynamic and interconnected formation and, moreover, as a space for the production of new theoretical insight. Contributing to our understanding of the tensions, dynamics, and potentialities that animate state-society relations in authoritarian regimes, this will be essential reading for students and scholars of civil society, authoritarianism, and Asian politics more generally.
Author: Jothie Rajah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1107012414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a focus on Singapore, this book presents an analysis of authoritarian legalism, showing how prosperity, public discourse, and a rigorous observance of legal procedure enable a reconfigured rule of law - liberal form but illiberal content. It shows how institutions and process become tools to constrain dissenting citizens while protecting those in political power.
Author: Shucheng Wang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1009152564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWang shows how the law in China is conceptually reconfigured and instrumentally employed to shore up an illiberal authoritarian regime.
Author: Mary E. Gallagher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1316033430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan 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: Po Jen Yap
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1107192625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.
Author: Victor V. Ramraj
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 052176890X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat role does, and should, legal, political, and constitutional norms play in constraining emergency powers, in Asia and beyond.
Author: Weitseng Chen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1108750710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cluster of Asian states are well-known for their authoritarian legality while having been able to achieve remarkable economic growth. Why would an authoritarian regime seek or tolerate a significant degree of legality and how has such type of legality been made possible in Asia? Would a transition towards a liberal, democratic system eventually take place and, if so, what kind of post-transition struggles are likely to be experienced? This book compares the past and current experiences of China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam and offers a comparative framework for readers to conduct a theoretical dialogue with the orthodox conception of liberal democracy and the rule of law.
Author: Christopher Carothers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1316513289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals how meaningful corruption control by authoritarian regimes is surprisingly common and follows a different playbook than democratic anti-corruption reform.
Author: Kanishka Jayasuriya
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-06-19
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1134738269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA challenging and provocative book that contests the liberal assumption that the rule of law will go hand in hand with a transition to market-based economies and even democracy in East Asia. Using case studies from Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam, the authors argue that the rule of law is in fact more likely to provide political elites with the means closely to control civil society. It is essential, therefore, to locate conceptions of judicial independence and the rule of law more generally within the ideological vocabulary of the state.
