How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice. Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural China and Indonesia during distinct periods from 1949 to the present, William Hurst offers a new way of understanding how cases are adjudicated (and with what implications) across authoritarian, developing, post-colonial, and newly democratizing settings. This is the first systematic comparative study of the world's largest Communist and majority-Muslim nations, and the most comprehensive scholarly work in many years on the micro-level workings of either the Chinese or Indonesian legal system at the grassroots, based on a decade of research and extensive fieldwork in multiple Indonesian and Chinese provinces.
| ISBN: | 9781108445894 |
| Publication date: | 2nd January 2020 |
| Author: | William Northwestern University, Illinois Hurst |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 319 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
Comparative politics Legal systems: general Criminal law: procedure and offences Systems of law: civil codes / civil law |
How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice. Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural China and Indonesia during distinct periods from 1949 to the present, William Hurst offers a new way of understanding how cases are adjudicated (and with what implications) across authoritarian, developing, post-colonial, and newly democratizing settings. This is the first systematic comparative study of the world's largest Communist and majority-Muslim nations, and the most comprehensive scholarly work in many years on the micro-level workings of either the Chinese or Indonesian legal system at the grassroots, based on a decade of research and extensive fieldwork in multiple Indonesian and Chinese provinces.
Ruling before the Law features in the following genres: Comparative politics, Legal systems: general, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law
Ruling before the Law is available in Paperback, Hardback
Ruling before the Law was written by William Northwestern University, Illinois Hurst and published by Cambridge University Press
Ruling before the Law has 319 pages
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