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Author: Mary E. Gallagher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 110708377X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Chinese workers' experiences and shows how disenchantment with the legal system drives workers from the courtroom to the streets.
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: Eva Pils
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-11-10
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1509500731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0691196141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing 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
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1107138434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays exploring whether a distinctive Chinese model for law and economic development exists.
Author: Christopher Heurlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 110810780X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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: Yuhua Wang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1107071747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTying 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: 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: Pierre F. Landry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-16
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1139472631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina, 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.
Author: Daniela Stockmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1107018447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStockmann argues that the consequences of introducing market forces to the media depend on the institutional design of the state.
