Authoritarian Legality in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authoritarian Legality in China write by Mary E. Gallagher. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Authoritarian Legality in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Authoritarian Legality in Asia
Authoritarian Legality in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authoritarian Legality in Asia write by Weitseng Chen. This book was released on 2020-07-16. Authoritarian Legality in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.
Law as an Instrument
Law as an Instrument - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law as an Instrument write by Shucheng Wang. This book was released on 2022-07-21. Law as an Instrument available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wang shows how the law in China is conceptually reconfigured and instrumentally employed to shore up an illiberal authoritarian regime.
Human Rights in China
Human Rights in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights in China write by Eva Pils. This book was released on 2017-11-10. Human Rights in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Contentious Public Sphere
The Contentious Public Sphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contentious Public Sphere write by Ya-Wen Lei. This book was released on 2019-09-03. The Contentious Public Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
