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Hybrid constitutionalism : the politics of constitutional review in the Chinese special administrative regions / Eric C. Ip.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ip, Eric Chi Yeung, author.
- Series:
- Comparative constitutional law and policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--China--Macau (Special Administrative Region).
- Law.
- Legal polycentricity.
- China--Macau (Special Administrative Region).
- Law--China--Hong Kong.
- China--Hong Kong.
- Constitutional law--China.
- Constitutional law.
- China.
- Legal polycentricity--China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This is the first book that focuses on the entrenched, fundamental divergence between the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and Macau's Tribunal de Última Instância over their constitutional jurisprudence, with the former repeatedly invalidating unconstitutional legislation with finality and the latter having never challenged the constitutionality of legislation at all. This divergence is all the more remarkable when considered in the light of the fact that the two Regions, commonly subject to oversight by China's authoritarian Party-state, possess constitutional frameworks that are nearly identical; feature similar hybrid regimes; and share a lot in history, ethnicity, culture, and language. Informed by political science and economics, this book breaks new ground by locating the cause of this anomaly, studied within the universe of authoritarian constitutionalism, not in the common law-civil law differences between these two former European dependencies, but the disparate levels of political transaction costs thereinches.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The rise of hybrid constitutionalism; 2. A transaction cost theory of hybrid constitutionalism; 3. Hybrid by constitutional design; 4. Comparative constitutional review in the Chinese special administrative regions; 5. Transaction cost politics in Hong Kong and Macau; 6. Epilogue; References; Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108163804
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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