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Trevaskes, Susan; Nesossi, Elisa; Sapio, Flora; Biddulph, Sarah --- "Framing the stability imperative" [2014] ELECD 566; in Trevaskes, Susan; Nesossi, Elisa; Sapio, Flora; Biddulph, Sarah (eds), "The Politics of Law and Stability in China" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) 268

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: Chapter 13

Section Title: Framing the stability imperative

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

Number of pages: 15

Abstract/Description:

The activist disposition of China’s legal institutions in the era of Harmonious Society and Stability Maintenance enabled the Party-state to legitimize important changes in the practices and policies of courts, governments and security organs. These changes were based on a certain political narrative about the relationship of social stability to China’s economic development and its reform path. According to the Party Central Politico-Legal Commission, China’s law and order (including Stability Maintenance) policies aim to promote three key elements of China’s modernization drive: stability, development and reform (Lin 2004). At the 17th Party Congress in 2007, China’s senior authorities declared ‘development is the priority task and stability the foremost responsibility’ (Kelly 2011, He 2012). But why was law drawn into this picture – as part of the reform programme and in the service of stability and development? Why was it the type of legal reform that has further politicized the legal system as we have seen through the chapters in this volume? And why was the stability imperative seen to be so pressing that it has acquired such major political proportions at this juncture in PRC history, overtaking the highly important longer-term goals of legal reform to further legitimize the law and develop a mature legal system in China. In this concluding chapter we address these questions by drawing from lessons in the studies presented across the book.


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