Building constitutionalism in China

Author(s)

• Balme, Stéphanie
• Dowdle, Michael W.

Bibliographic Information

Building constitutionalism in China

edited by Stéphanie Balme and Michael W. Dowdle

（Sciences po series in international relations and political economy）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

1st ed

Note

Based on an international conference on "Constitutionalism and judicial power in China" at Sciences Po (CERI) in Paris in Dec. 2005

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-302) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume unpacks the relationship between constitutionalism and judicial power in China. It explores how court behaviour intersects with - affects and is affected by - China's evolving notions of constitutionalism.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Exploring for Constitutionalism in 21st Century China
• S.Balme & M.W.Dowdle PART I: CONSTITUTIONALISM AS ENVISIONING THE STATE 'Judicial Politics' as State-Building
• Z.Suli Of Constitutions and Constitutionalism: Trying to Build a New Political Order in China, 1908-1949
• X.Xiao-Planes Epistrophy: Chinese Constitutionalism and the 1950s
• G.D.Tiffert Middle Income Blues: The East Asian Model and Implications for Constitutional Development in China
• R.P.Peerenboom PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 'POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE' China's Constitutional Research and Teaching: A State of the Art
• T.Zhiwei Western Constitutional Ideas and Constitutional Discourse in China, 1978-2005
• Y.Xingzhong 'To Take the Law as the Public': The Diversification of Society and Legal Discourse in Contemporary China
• J.Weidong PART III: TRANSMITTING CONSTITUTIONALISM: 'JUDICIAL POWER' AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM Administrative Law as a Mechanism for Political Control in Contemporary China
• H.Xin Access to Justice and Constitutionalism in China
• F.Hualing Ordinary Justice and Popular Constitutionalism in China
• S.Balme Beyond 'Judicial Power': Courts and Constitutionalism in Modern China
• M.W.Dowdle PART IV: TOWARDS A POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM Citizens Engage the Constitution: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Constitutional Review Proposals in the People's Republic of China
• K.J.Hand Rights Activism in China: The Case of Lawyer Gao Zhisheng
• E.Pils Epilogue: The Past as Preface: Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Virtual Constitutionalism in the Late Ming Dynasty
• P.Will

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Details

• NCID: BB02371354
• ISBN:
  • 9780230600324
• LCCN: 2009002720
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 325 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KNQ2069
  • DC22 : 342.51
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Constitutional law -- China -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA89092443