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Article: Maintaining Stability by Law: Protest-Supported Housing Demolition Litigation and Social Change in China
Title | Maintaining Stability by Law: Protest-Supported Housing Demolition Litigation and Social Change in China |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | Law and Social Inquiry, 2014, v. 39, n. 4, p. 849-873 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2014 American Bar Foundation. Housing demolition has been one of the major sources of social conflict in contemporary China. Drawing on evidence collected in fieldwork investigations, this article examines the pressure of protest-supported housing demolition litigation and its impacts. It finds that under the pressure of litigation, the courts have devised coping mechanisms to constrain the housing demolition authorities, and that social change angling toward more transparency and accountability has occurred. The article argues that this change is made possible as the maintenance of social stability has become not only the paramount concern of the regime, but also the performance assessment criterion for local officials and judges. The findings deepen our understanding of the causes and consequences of judicial empowerment in China and shed light on the dynamics of judicial politics in other regimes. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/251098 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 1.396 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.446 |
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dc.contributor.author | He, Xin | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-01T01:54:34Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-01T01:54:34Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Law and Social Inquiry, 2014, v. 39, n. 4, p. 849-873 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0897-6546 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/251098 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2014 American Bar Foundation. Housing demolition has been one of the major sources of social conflict in contemporary China. Drawing on evidence collected in fieldwork investigations, this article examines the pressure of protest-supported housing demolition litigation and its impacts. It finds that under the pressure of litigation, the courts have devised coping mechanisms to constrain the housing demolition authorities, and that social change angling toward more transparency and accountability has occurred. The article argues that this change is made possible as the maintenance of social stability has become not only the paramount concern of the regime, but also the performance assessment criterion for local officials and judges. The findings deepen our understanding of the causes and consequences of judicial empowerment in China and shed light on the dynamics of judicial politics in other regimes. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Law and Social Inquiry | - |
dc.title | Maintaining Stability by Law: Protest-Supported Housing Demolition Litigation and Social Change in China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/lsi.12064 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84926137826 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 39 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 849 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 873 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1747-4469 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000344373000003 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0897-6546 | - |