Growth and Survival

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-316-51436-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 461 g

Bridging disparate literatures on courts and the legal profession in China, Jonathan J. Kinkel introduces an innovative cross-disciplinary framework to understand the reality of Chinese politics and society. Fusing a variety of perspectives from social ecology, historical institutionalism, and empirical legal studies, Kinkel contextualises patterns of court reform within China's rapid economic and social transformations. This book's extensive case studies emphasise the dynamic expansion of the legal system in the post-Mao reform period and demonstrate that law firm growth in large cities, especially in the early twenty-first century, pressured courts at the local and national levels to enhance judicial autonomy. Advancing debates on the multiplicity of political-legal regimes, this book offers a comprehensive, empirical account of how reforms in both the public and private arenas can interact and operate alongside one another.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinkel, Jonathan J.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Berufs- und Gebührenrecht freie Berufe Rechtsanwälte und Notare
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. An ecological theory of court reform in Urban China; 2. The judicial cadre evaluation system: foundational institutional incentives undergirded by “intra-state legibility”; 3. High-end demand for legal services and local pressure to professionalize the judiciary; 4. Expansions in competitive promotion and the implications for judicial autonomy; 5. Court personnel, bureaucratic specialization, and the limits of top-down theory; 6. Conclusion; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kinkel, Jonathan J.
Jonathan J. Kinkel is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, where his research has focused on the intersection between comparative politics, law and society, and Chinese studies. Beginning in 2022, he will also be affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is a past recipient of the Best Graduate Student Paper award from Law & Social Inquiry (LSI), and his research has appeared in journals including LSI, China Quarterly, and the Journal of East Asian Studies. This is his first book.