The politics of lawmaking in post-Mao China. (Volumes I and II).

Since 1979, the process of lawmaking has become an increasingly important--and surprisingly contentious--part of the overall Chinese policy-making process requiring serious scholarly attention. Taking as its inspiration classic American politics studies of lawmaking, this study asks How does a bill become a law in Post-Mao China? and What impact do the politics of the lawmaking process have on the substance of Chinese law? At the core of this dissertation is an in-depth comparative case study of two major laws: one on enterprise bankruptcy, one on state factory management. Data are drawn from interviews with Chinese officials and scholars involved in the lawmaking process, as well as Chinese and English language documentary and press sources. The study also seeks to illuminate the roles and power sources of the various Communist Party, State Council, and National People's Congress (NPC) organs involved in drafting major pieces of legislation. The study analyzes the lawmaking process through four theoretical models of the policy-making process. Rejecting the traditional command model of lawmaking politics--that the Party controls the legislature--the study argues that the Party leadership is no longer sufficiently unified to reach lawmaking decisions within Party fora, and increasing resorts to the lawmaking system as an important adjunct political battleground. Chinese lawmaking politics are, instead, better understood through three other policy-process models: those emphasizing leadership struggle and organizational politics; as well as Cohen, March, and Olsen's garbage can model of organizational choice. The lawmaking process interweaves three major policy-making arenas--the Party Center, State Council, and the NPC--each incorporating distinctive political processes and unique, though overlapping, constellations of political actors. The study closes by questioning whether or not the Chinese lawmaking system is too fragmented and conservative to meet its major current task: developing the legal infrastructure essential to China's economic structural reform.Ph.D.Asian historyLawPolitical scienceSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/128842/2/9208666.pd

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As China’s security interests expand and its power grows, it may increasingly have to choose between a long-range calculation that it should avoid angering its neighbors in the region and a short-term desire to display its newly won capacity to defend its interests and assert its power. Drawing on our analysis, we see themes that indicate growing support for China to pursue what we might call “defensive expansion” of China’s presence and influence in Asia, including its military presence and influence. Underlying this support for defensive expansion we see three themes recurring throughout China’s debates over its emerging interests. First, that China’s security community sees its emerging xii | Introduction Introduction | xiii national security interests as increasingly indispensable to China’s future development and power. Second, that China sees many of these interests as increasingly vulnerable or at risk from both traditional and nontraditional threats. And third, that China portrays itself as having exercised much greater restraint in asserting and protecting its interests than many of its neighbors