Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law vs. Democratization: Rule of Law vs. Democratization

by Zhao,Suisheng

• ISBN13: 9780765617316
• ISBN10: 0765617315
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: East Gate Book

Summary

This book brings the ongoing debate to life and explores the options for political reform. Offering the perpectives of both Western and Chinese scholars, it presents the controversial argument for building a consultive rule of law regime as an alternative to liberal democracy, provides several critiques of this thesis, and then tests the thesis through empirial studies on the development of the rule of law in China.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Suisheng Zhao
Toward a Consultative Rule of Law Regime in China	3	(38)
Pan Wei
Political Liberalization Without Democratization: Pan Wei's Proposal for Political Reform	41	(17)
Suisheng Zhao
A Government of Laws: Democracy, Rule of Law, and Administrative Law Reform in China	58	(21)
Randall Peerenboom
The Rule of Law as Transition to Democracy in China	79	(12)
Larry Diamond
A Comparative Politics of Democratization in China	91	(20)
Edward Friedman
Pan Wei's Consultative Rule of Law Regime: Reforming Authoritarianism in China	111	(11)
Gunter Schubert
Toward the Rule of Law: Why China's Path Will Be Different from the West	122	(16)
Baohui Zhang
The People's Court in Transition: The Prospects for Chinese Judicial Reform	138	(26)
Qianfan Zhang
State Power and Unbalanced Legal Development in China	164	(16)
Yongshun Cai
Songcai Yang
Law and Labor in Post-Mao China	180	(16)
Yunqiu Zhang
The Internet and Emerging Civil Society in China	196	(19)
Guobin Yang
The Internet and Single-Party Rule in China	215	(15)
Tamara Renee Shie
Toward a Rule of Law Regime: Political Reform under China's Fourth Generation of Leadership	230	(17)
Suisheng Zhao
Reflections on the ``Consultative Rule of Law Regime'': A Response to My Critics	247	(8)
Pan Wei
Notes	255	(28)
About the Editor and Contributors	283	(4)
Index	287