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  • China's Supreme Court

    by Ronald C. Keith, Zhiqiu Lin, Shumei Hou ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book examines the learning curve of the People's Supreme Court of China as an expanding Chinese national institution that has played a key role in the struggle for the rule of law in China. Within the unity of state administration and the requirements of the constitution, the court has negotiated the changing tension between politics and law through improvising new formats of interpretation ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The People's Congresses and Governance in China

    Toward a Network Mode of Governance

    by Ming Xia ...
    Series series Library of Legislative Studies
    This book provides a balanced assessment of China’s communist rule, its viability as well as its prospect of democracy.The People's Congresses and Governance in China presents a complex but convincing analysis of the transformation of governance in China. As the first systemic and theoretical study of China’s provincial legislatures, it draws our attention to one of the most promising growth ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Constitution of China

    A Contextual Analysis

    by Qianfan Zhang ...
    Series series Constitutional Systems of the World
    This book on China's constitution and its tradition of constitutionalism is one of the first in the English language, and as such provides a much needed overview of China's constitutional history and present arrangements. The nine chapters are divided into three parts. The first part (Chapters 1 & 2) deals with China's constitutional history, its indigenous and Confucian antecedents, as well as ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Chinese Democracy

    by Andrew J. Nathan ...
    A highly original and convincing book by one of our best-informed China specialists, offering an entirely new perspective on the nature of democracy as the Chinese practice it—and, incidentally, as we practice it too.What do the Chinese mean by the word “democracy”? When they say that their political system is “democratic,” does this mean that they share our ideas about liberty, civil rights, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by local officials. Although there was initial progress, these reforms have largely stalled and, in many cases, gone backward. If there were sufficient incentives to inaugurate reform, why wasn't there enough momentum to continue and deepen them? ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Burma Redux

    Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar

    by Ian Holliday ...
    Contemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges, and it is unclear how other nations should act in relation to the country. Prioritizing the opinions of local citizens and reading them against the latest scholarship on this issue, Ian Holliday affirms the importance of foreign interests in Myanmar's democratic awakening, yet only through committed, grassroots strategies of engagement ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Conceptions of Chinese Democracy

    Reading Sun Yat-Zen, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Chiang Ching-Kuo

    by David J. Lorenzo ...
    An accessible and critical introduction to the political writings of three seminal figures in modern Chinese democratic thought.Author and political scholar David J. Lorenzo examines the democratic writings of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo, providing a coherent summary that situates their ideas within the broader traditions of political theory. His comparative study allows the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's Party Congress

    Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation

    by Guoguang Wu ...
    Nominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining party policy and the selection of China's leaders. Guoguang Wu provides the first analysis of how the Party Congress operates to elect Party leadership and decide Party policy, and explores why such a formal performance of congress meetings, delegate discussions, and non ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Slovenian Democratic Evolution and Praxis

    by Miro Haček, Marjan Brezovšek, Simona Kukovič ...
    According to the Nations in transit and HDI measurements, Slovenia isregarded as a democratic country yet with some measurements it can alsobe found lower down the scale (problems with corruption). Although suchmeasurements are not completely accurate, most of them rank Sloveniaamong the most successful countries in democratic transition. Since gainingindependence in 1991, Slovenia has completely ... Read more

    $13.58 USD

  • Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    In December 2008 some 350 Chinese intellectuals published a manifesto calling for reform of the Chinese constitution and an end to one-party rule. Known as “Charter 08,” the manifesto has since been signed by more than 10,000 people. One of its authors, Liu Xiaobo, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 but has remained in prison since 2009 for subversive crimes. This collection of essays—the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • State and Agents in China

    Disciplining Government Officials

    by Yongshun Cai ...
    Chinese government officials have played a crucial role in China's economic development, but they are also responsible for severe problems, including environmental pollution, violation of citizens' rights, failure in governance, and corruption. How does the Chinese Party-state respond when a government official commits a duty-related malfeasance or criminal activity? And how does it balance the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Human Rights in China

    A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism

    by Eva Pils ...
    Series series China Today
    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 ... Read more

    $19.00 USD