Ruling Before the Law The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia

Cover -- Half Title -- Series page -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chickens, Fertilizer, and Legal Regimes -- Ruling Before the Law -- Background and Significance -- Conceptual Framework and Motivating Questions -- Comparing China and Indonesia and Comparing within Each -- 1 Understanding Legal Regimes -- Introduction -- General Contours of Prior Scholarship -- Research on Comparative Legal Traditions -- Research on Law, Development, Authoritarianism, and Democratization -- Persistent Gaps and Remaining Lacunae -- Legal Regimes -- Differentiating Legal Regimes from Rule of Law -- Legal Regimes: Outline of a Concept -- Utility of Legal Regimes for Understanding Complex Realities -- Using Legal Regimes to Guide Empirical Analysis -- Distinguishing between Public and Private (or Criminal and Civil) Law -- Distinguishing between Urban and Rural Justice Systems -- The Logic of Comparison and Research Approach -- Internationalizing Subnational Comparison -- The Method Applied -- Data and Empirical Approach in Light of Prior Research -- Conclusion -- 2 An Historical Overview of Indonesian and Chinese Legal Regimes -- Introduction -- Crisis, Punctuated Equilibrium, and the Study of Legal Institutions -- The Development of the Chinese Legal System before 1949 -- Chinese Courts and Legal Institutions, 1949-1978 -- The Chinese Legal System, 1979-2001 -- China's Legal System since 2002 -- The Development of the Indonesian Legal System under the Dutch -- Indonesian Legal Institutions during the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945 -- The Indonesian Legal System in the Early Years of Independence, 1945-1957 -- The Indonesian Legal System through Crisis and Transformation, 1957-1974 -- The Indonesian Legal System under New Order, 1974-1998