Access to civil justice is a perspective on the experiences that people have with civil justice
events, organizations, or institutions. It focuses on who is able or willing to use civil law and …

Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in
global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness …

Studies about authoritarianism build the foundation of legal mobilization scholarship and
continue to advance this area of sociolegal research. The contributions of these studies …

Drawing on data collected from district-level governments, this article studies how the
Chinese state responds to labor protests in South China. It examines both the internal logic …

This collection of papers is the final result of two capacity-building projects for environmental
NGOs in China–the SENGO project (Strengthening Environmental NGOs in China), funded …

Chinese pollution victims have increasingly started to resort to political and legal action to
protect their interests. This paper analyzes such activism by studying how citizens identify …

以往有关府信任的研究大都分别以城市居民或农民为研究对象而独立进行,
缺乏对城乡居民的直接对比. 本研究通过对自全国六大地区的问卷调查, 考察了当前城乡居民府 …

Do ingroup biases distort the behavior of public officials? Recent studies detect large ethnic
biases in elite political behavior, but their case selection leaves open the possibility that bias …

Having gained unique access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to
thousands of prisoners' written grievances and institutional responses, Kitty Calavita and …

Over the last decade, C hinese citizens, judges, and prosecutors have started to take action
against industrial pollution, pluralizing a regulatory landscape originally occupied by …