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

Building on extensive fieldwork in China and Indonesia, Hurst offers a valuable comparison of legal systems in practice.

List of contents

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.

About the author

William Hurst is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, Illinois. For this book, he completed more than two years of field research across rural and urban settings of multiple provinces in both Indonesia and China. His first book, The Chinese Worker after Socialism (Cambridge, 2009), explored the economic, social, and political causes and ramifications of more than 35 million job losses in China's state-owned enterprises, based on more than two years of fieldwork and over 350 interviews in nine Chinese cities.

Summary

This is the first comparative analysis of law and politics in China and Indonesia, for scholars of politics, law, sociology, and history. Based on extensive archival, interview, and observational research across multiple localities in both countries, it is the most comprehensive work in decades on either country's legal system.

Product details

• Authors: William Hurst, William (Northwestern University Hurst, Hurst William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108427203
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42720-3
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; China, LAW / General, Criminal law & procedure, South East Asia, Comparative Politics, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general, Civil codes / Civil law