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

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

Name: Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108445894
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Author: William Hurst
ISBN: 9781108445894

By William Hurst

Cambridge University Press January 2020

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ISBN-13: 9781108445894
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

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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