The New Dual State: Judicial Autonomy and Political Control in China - Couverture rigide

Wang, Yueduan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009661671 ISBN 13 : 9781009661676

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

'The New Dual State' examines how regimes can institutionalize judicial autonomy without relinquishing ultimate political control. Revising the dual state theory beyond its classical and contemporary formulations, the book proposes the framework of symbiotic dualism, which argues that the consolidation of political authority can clarify and stabilize the boundary between legal order and extralegal authority, thereby producing a more autonomous judiciary in routine adjudication. Using China as the central case, the book shows how political centralization enabled the regime to insulate judges from local officials, suppress unsanctioned extrajudicial interventions, and channel politically sensitive disputes away from the courts. These measures have produced a legal order in which courts demonstrate increasing professionalism and autonomy in routine cases, while the regime retains decisive authority over politically salient matters. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and framed by comparative legal theory, the book advances a generalizable framework for understanding legality outside the context of liberal democracies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Yueduan Wang is Assistant Professor at Peking University's School of Government and Institute of Public Governance. He holds a JD and an SJD from Harvard Law School and specializes in comparative constitutional law and judicial politics. He is the author of Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Innovations in China, India, and the United States (Harvard, 2024). His research on China's political–legal system and its comparative significance has appeared in leading journals, including the International Journal of Constitutional Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, Regulation & Governance, Law & Social Inquiry, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and The China Quarterly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009661671
• ISBN 13: 9781009661676
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie