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This book explores the petition( ), a political system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important form of political participation for people at the bottom and an effective means of supervising officials at the grassroots level for the higher-level government. Through a half-year fieldwork of the Public Security Bureau, the author found that the operational logic of the petition seems to be different from the past, and it is the change of petition logic that leads to the dilemma that "the cost of petitioning is reduced but the road of rights safeguarding is narrowed," or in other words, it's easier to make a petition but harder to succeed for those who are truly wronged. This book based on the grassroots of China's legal system is worth reading for those that are interested in studying police and petition as well as political sociology and organizational sociology.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Petition against the police: a data analysis.- Chapter 3: Why are they against the police?.- Chapter 4: Police supervision with panoramic view.- Chapter 5: Zero tolerance and inaction to avoid complaints.- Chapter 6: Petition lure and unreasonable petition.- Chapter 7: Petition against petition.- Chapter 8: Excessive discipline: the second form of police misconduct.- Chapter 9: Petition governance and its dialectics.- Chapter 10: Power Determination Capacity and internalization of the rule of law.
About the author
Lin Huihuang is a researcher and assistant dean at Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology.
