Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Politics of Constitutional Review in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions

Law › Administrative / Constitutional Law

Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Politics of Constitutional Review in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions

By Eric Ip
Cambridge University Press April 2019

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107194922
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
April 2019
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This is the first book that focuses on the entrenched, fundamental divergence between the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and Macau's Tribunal de Ultima Instancia over their constitutional jurisprudence, with the former repeatedly invalidating unconstitutional legislation with finality and the latter having never challenged the constitutionality of legislation at all. This divergence is all the more remarkable when considered in the light of the fact that the two Regions, commonly subject to oversight by China's authoritarian Party-state, possess constitutional frameworks that are nearly identical; feature similar hybrid regimes; and share a lot in history, ethnicity, culture, and language. Informed by political science and economics, this book breaks new ground by locating the cause of this anomaly, studied within the universe of authoritarian constitutionalism, not in the common law-civil law differences between these two former European dependencies, but the disparate levels of political transaction costs therein.

Table of Contents

1. The rise of hybrid constitutionalism
2. A transaction cost theory of hybrid constitutionalism
3. Hybrid by constitutional design
4. Comparative constitutional review in the Chinese special administrative regions
5. Transaction cost politics in Hong Kong and Macau
6. Epilogue
References
Index.
HKD 1,324.05 −3%
HKD 1,365.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 2-10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Administrative / Constitutional Law

View all
Judges, Judging, and Judgment: Character, Wisdom, and Humility in a Polarized World
Cambridge University Press

Judges, Judging, and Judgment: Character, Wisdom, and Humility in a Polarized World

Chad M. Oldfather
HKD 389.94
Pragmatism, Principle, and Power in Common Law Constitutional Systems: Essays in Honour of Bruce Harris
Intersentia Publishers

Pragmatism, Principle, and Power in Common Law Constitutional Systems: Essays in Honour of Bruce Harris

Sam Bookman; Hanna Wilberg; Edward Willis; Max Harris
HKD 1,130.50
Administrative Competence: Reimagining Administrative Law
Cambridge University Press

Administrative Competence: Reimagining Administrative Law

Elizabeth Fisher; Sidney A. Shapiro
HKD 1,374.49
Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments: How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power
Cambridge University Press

Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments: How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power

Austin Sarat
HKD 1,311.44
Law Making as an Institutional Game: Who Wins and Who Loses from Judicial Reforms? Pre-order
Routledge

Law Making as an Institutional Game: Who Wins and Who Loses from Judicial Reforms?

Daniela Piana
HKD 1,324.05
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence
Oxford University Press

Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence

Samy A. Ayoub
HKD 1,418.63