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 …

Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the
world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to …

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 …

In the wake of heightened scholarly and media attention to the growing volume of conflict in
rural China, this article represents the first effort to use survey data to identify the causes …

James Scott (1985) placed 'everyday forms of resistance, between quiescence and
rebellion. Others have noted that defiance in unpromising circumstances need not be quiet …

Existing literature on China's urbanization focuses primarily on the expansion of cities and
towns, with little attention being paid to urban renewals. The wasteful use of urban land has …

Rural protest leaders in China play a number of roles. Among others, they lead the charge,
shape collective claims, recruit activists and mobilize the public, devise and orchestrate acts …

At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods,
underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were …