"Contents" [2014] ELECD 551; in Trevaskes, Susan; Nesossi, Elisa; Sapio, Flora; Biddulph, Sarah (eds), "The Politics of Law and Stability in China" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) v

Book Title: The Politics of Law and Stability in China

Editor(s): Trevaskes, Susan; Nesossi, Elisa; Sapio, Flora; Biddulph, Sarah

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783473861

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface xi

1. Stability and the law 1
Susan Trevaskes, Elisa Nesossi, Flora Sapio and Sarah Biddulph

PART 1 MANAGING DISPUTES

2. Management of stability in labour relations 21
Sarah Biddulph
3. `If we award this case to you, all the Chinese people would
come to us for justice!' Land-taking cases in the shadow of
social stability 42
Xin He
4. Ripples across stagnant water: stability, legal activism and water
pollution disputes in rural China 59
Zhang Wanhong and Ding Peng

PART 2 CREATING AND SUSTAINING LEGAL FRAMEWORKS

5. Regulation by escalation: unrest, lawmaking and law enforcement
in China 83
Benjamin van Rooij
6. Mediating state and society: social stability and administrative
suits 107
Michael Palmer
7. Death sentencing for stability and harmony 127
Susan Trevaskes
8. Criminal procedure, law reform and stability 153
Guo Zhiyuan
9. Stability and anticorruption initiatives: is there a Chinese model? 176
Fu Hualing




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10. The impact of the 2009 People's Armed Police Law on the
People's Armed Police force 202
Murray Scot Tanner

PART 3 FRAMING THE DISCOURSES OF STABILITY

11. Detention, stability and `social management innovation' 219
Elisa Nesossi
12. The invisible hand of government: the conceptual origins of
social management innovation 244
Flora Sapio
13. Framing the stability imperative 268
Susan Trevaskes, Elisa Nesossi, Flora Sapio and Sarah Biddulph

Index 283