Ruling before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020

1108445896 / 9781108445894

Series: Book 81 of 104 - Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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Summary: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.…

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Title
Ruling before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Author
Hurst, William
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Cambridge University Press
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2020
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English
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Book 81 of 104: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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