Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia

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Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia

By William Hurst
Cambridge University Press April 2018

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9781108427203
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Cambridge University Press
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April 2018
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Hardback
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How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice.

Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural China and Indonesia during distinct periods from 1949 to the present, William Hurst offers a new way of understanding how cases are adjudicated (and with what implications) across authoritarian, developing, post-colonial, and newly democratizing settings.

This is the first systematic comparative study of the world's largest Communist and majority-Muslim nations, and the most comprehensive scholarly work in many years on the micro-level workings of either the Chinese or Indonesian legal system at the grassroots, based on a decade of research and extensive fieldwork in multiple Indonesian and Chinese provinces.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Understanding legal regimes
2. Historical overview of Chinese and Indonesian legal regimes
3. Law and revolution: mobilizational justice and charismatic politics
4. Rule by law: authoritarian legitimacy and legal efficiency
5. Neotraditional sclerosis: law in the service of stagnant hierarchies.
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