Making Law Work: Chinese Laws in Context

✍ Scribed by Mattias Burell (editor); Marina Svensson (editor)

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 434
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

By studying law implementation in different areas and at different levels, contributors from various disciplines give a nuanced picture of law implementation in China, showing that it is rare to find examples of complete success or failure. Instead, making law work in actual practice, and in any society, is a matter of degree. The study is multidisciplinary in character and builds on insights from both sociology of law and political science.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Theoretical Frameworks
1 Making Law Work in China
2 Assessing Implementation of Law in China What Is the Standard?
3 Putting Law in Context Some Remarks on the Implementation of Law in China
Institutions and Actors in Implementation Work
4 Chinese Courts in Law Implementation
5 People’s Congresses Involvement in Law Implementation: The Case of Environmental Protection Laws
6 From Nothing to Something: Development of a Legal Aid System in China
Norms, Politics, and the Law
7 Cultural Heritage Protection in the People’s Republic of China: Preservation Policies, Institutions, Laws, and Enforcement in Zhejiang
8 The Legitimacy of Law in China: The Case of “Black Internet Cafés”
9 Twists and Turns: Anticorruption Law in Beijing
Distributive and Regulative Policies and Laws
10 Policy Dilution and Equity Problems: Implementing Housing Policy in China
11 Regulating Land and Pollution at Lake Dianchi: Compliance and Enforcement in a Chinese and Comparative Perspective
Contributors
Index