Can authoritarian regimes use democratic institutions to strengthen and solidify their rule? The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the world and opened up the judicial system to adjudicate workplace conflict, emboldening China's workers to use these laws. This book examines these patterns of legal mobilization, showing which workers are likely to avail themselves of these new protections and find them effective. Gallagher finds that workers with high levels of education are far more likely to claim these new rights and be satisfied with the results. However, many others, left disappointed with the large gap between law on the books and law in reality, reject the courtroom for the streets. Using workers' narratives, surveys, and case studies of protests, Gallagher argues that China's half-hearted attempt at rule of law construction undermines the stability of authoritarian rule. New workplace rights fuel workers' rising expectations, but a dysfunctional legal system drives many workers to more extreme options, including strikes, demonstrations and violence.
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Weight: 510g
Dimensions: 157 x 236mm
Publication Date: 07 Sep 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781107083776
About Mary E. GallagherMary Gallagher
Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor where she is also the Director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law Shanghai and in 201213 she was a Visiting Professor at the Koguan School of Law Shanghai Jiaotong University. She is also the author or editor of several books including Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China (with Margaret Y. K. Woo Cambridge 2011) and Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources Methods and Field Strategies (with Allen Carlson Kenneth Lieberthal and Melanie Manion Cambridge 2010).
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