Politics of Law and Stability in China

Edited by Susan Trevaskes, Griffith University, Elisa Nesossi, Australian National University, Flora Sapio, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Sarah Biddulph, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia

• CONTENTSPreface 1. Stability and the lawSusan Trevaskes, Elisa Nesossi, Flora Sapio and Sarah Biddulph2. Management of stability in labour relationsSarah Biddulph3. ‘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 stabilityXin He4. Ripples across stagnant water: stability, legal activism and water pollution disputes in rural ChinaZhang Wanhong and Ding Peng5. Regulation by escalation: unrest, lawmaking and law enforcement in ChinaBenjamin van Rooij6. Mediating state and society: social stability and administrative suitsMichael Palmer7. Death sentencing for stability and harmonySusan Trevaskes8. Criminal procedure, law reform and stabilityZhiyuan Guo9. Stability and anticorruption initiatives: Is there a Chinese model?Fu Hualing10. The impact of the 2009 people’s armed police law on the people’s armed police forceMurray Scot Tanner11. Detention, stability and ‘social management innovation’Elisa Nesossi12. The invisible hand of government: the conceptual origins of social management innovationFlora Sapio13. Framing the stability imperativeSusan Trevaskes, Elisa Nesossi, Flora Sapio, Sarah BiddulphIndex

‘Valuable with insightful analysis and powerful discourse on the implications of its topics. The book makes a clear contribution to the literature on the interdependent relationship between politics and law in mainland China.’