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Growth and Survival - Jonathan J. Kinkel

Growth and Survival

An Ecological Analysis of Court Reform in Urban China
Buch | Softcover
206 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-07818-4 (ISBN)
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Introducing an innovative interdisciplinary framework to understand the complex reality of Chinese politics, this book shows how legal reforms emerge from the developments in both the public and private arenas. Drawing upon law, comparative politics, and sociology, this is an invaluable resource for readers from a range of disciplines.
Bridging disparate literatures on courts and the legal profession in China, Jonathan J. Kinkel introduces an innovative cross-disciplinary framework to understand the reality of Chinese politics and society. Fusing a variety of perspectives from social ecology, historical institutionalism, and empirical legal studies, Kinkel contextualises patterns of court reform within China's rapid economic and social transformations. This book's extensive case studies emphasise the dynamic expansion of the legal system in the post-Mao reform period and demonstrate that law firm growth in large cities, especially in the early twenty-first century, pressured courts at the local and national levels to enhance judicial autonomy. Advancing debates on the multiplicity of political-legal regimes, this book offers a comprehensive, empirical account of how reforms in both the public and private arenas can interact and operate alongside one another.

Jonathan J. Kinkel is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, where his research has focused on the intersection between comparative politics, law and society, and Chinese studies. Beginning in 2022, he will also be affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is a past recipient of the Best Graduate Student Paper award from Law & Social Inquiry (LSI), and his research has appeared in journals including LSI, China Quarterly, and the Journal of East Asian Studies. This is his first book.

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. An ecological theory of court reform in Urban China; 2. The judicial cadre evaluation system: foundational institutional incentives undergirded by “intra-state legibility”; 3. High-end demand for legal services and local pressure to professionalize the judiciary; 4. Expansions in competitive promotion and the implications for judicial autonomy; 5. Court personnel, bureaucratic specialization, and the limits of top-down theory; 6. Conclusion; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.2.2026
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 1-009-07818-6 / 1009078186
ISBN-13 978-1-009-07818-4 / 9781009078184
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