Ruling before the Law

The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia

AvWilliam Hurst

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice. Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural China and Indonesia during distinct periods from 1949 to the present, William Hurst offers a new way of understanding how cases are adjudicated (and with what implications) across authoritarian, developing, post-colonial, and newly democratizing settings. This is the first systematic comparative study of the world's largest Communist and majority-Muslim nations, and the most comprehensive scholarly work in many years on the micro-level workings of either the Chinese or Indonesian legal system at the grassroots, based on a decade of research and extensive fieldwork in multiple Indonesian and Chinese provinces.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-02
Mått:150 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108445894

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Straffrätt: process och brott inom Juridik
Rättsordning inom Juridik
Rättssystem inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

William Hurst is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, Illinois. For this book, he completed more than two years of field research across rural and urban settings of multiple provinces in both Indonesia and China. His first book, The Chinese Worker after Socialism (Cambridge, 2009), explored the economic, social, and political causes and ramifications of more than 35 million job losses in China's state-owned enterprises, based on more than two years of fieldwork and over 350 interviews in nine Chinese cities.

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'No one but Hurst could have written this book. His close study of variation across and within two giant countries generates theoretical insights that go well beyond China and Indonesia, though scholars of each country will also profit. A monumental achievement and a major advance in socio-legal studies.' Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Understanding legal regimes; 2. Historical overview of Chinese and Indonesian legal regimes; 3. Law and revolution: mobilizational justice and charismatic politics; 4. Rule by law: authoritarian legitimacy and legal efficiency; 5. Neotraditional sclerosis: law in the service of stagnant hierarchies.