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

by Zhao,Suisheng

• ISBN13: 9780765617323
• ISBN10: 0765617323
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• 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
Suisheng Zhao	vii
1. Toward a Consultative Rule of Law Regime in China
Pan Wei	3	(38)
2. Political Liberalization Without Democratization: Pan Wei's Proposal for Political Reform
Suisheng Zhao	41	(17)
3. A Government of Laws: Democracy, Rule of Law, and Administrative Law Reform in China
Randall Peerenboom	58	(21)
4. The Rule of Law as Transition to Democracy in China
Larry Diamond	79	(12)
5. A Comparative Politics of Democratization in China
Edward Friedman	91	(20)
6. Pan Wei's Consultative Rule of Law Regime: Reforming Authoritarianism in China
Gunter Schubert	111	(11)
7. Toward the Rule of Law: Why China's Path Will Be Different from the West
Baohui Zhang	122	(16)
8. The People's Court in Transition: The Prospects for Chinese Judicial Reform
Qianfan Zhang	138	(26)
9. State Power and Unbalanced Legal Development in China
Yongshun Cai and Songcai Yang	164	(16)
10. Law and Labor in Post-Mao China
Yunqiu Zhang	180	(16)
11. The Internet and Emerging Civil Society in China
Guobin Yang	196	(19)
12. The Internet and Single-Party Rule in China
Tamara Renee Shie	215	(15)
13. Toward a Rule of Law Regime: Political Reform under China's Fourth Generation of Leadership
Suisheng Zhao	230	(17)
14. Reflections on the "Consultative Rule of Law Regime": A Response to My Critics
Pan Wei	247	(8)
Notes	255	(28)
About the Editor and Contributors	283	(4)
Index	287