March 2004 witnessed a dramatic overhaul of the People's Republic of China's fledgling constitution, reflecting a concerted effort by the Chinese Communist Party ("CPC") to protect private property, promote the private sector, and secure human rights. This article analyzes the practical...

Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is rather clear what transition policies have worked. Almost all the post-communist countries have become market economies and have achieved macroeconomic stability. Privatization was economically necessary, and its economic outcomes have...

The promise and challenges of Chinese law, economy, and foreign relations is nicely framed within the Chinese Constitution. From the time of the leadership of Deng Xiao-Ping, China has invested tremendous resources on the modernization of all sectors of its society while attempting to remain...

Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is rather clear what transition policies have worked. Almost all the post-communist countries have become market economies and have achieved macroeconomic stability. Privatization was economically necessary, and its economic outcomes have...

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 both of popular grievances and of popular actions taken to resolve them in the Chinese countryside. An...

This publication advances a public agency-specific framework for the analysis of the causes of public sector corruption in order to develop public-policy recommendations. This framework is applied to the judiciary due to its strategic importance in the fight against public and private sector...

In the book, some 25 authors report on the implementation of the ECHR in their respective countries, including questions of ratification and implementation in law, awareness by legal professionals, inclusion in the curricula of law schools, practice of the courts, cases brought to Strasbourg,...

Both a general description of the person and a special case of management of human activities have been developed. The information space for describing of a person’s behavior and activity is constructed. A classification for control objectives is constructed: a goal’s space for head is...

The paper discusses the connection between the level of economic development and the political system of the Republic of Macedonia. Following Herbert Kitschelt's classification of communist regimes as bureaucratic-authoritarian, national-accommodative and patrimonial varieties, the paper...