Hybrid constitutionalism : the politics of constitutional review in the Chinese special administrative regions / Eric Ip.
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- 9781107194922 (hardback)
- 342.001 ERI.H
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342.001 DOB.T Twilight of constitutionalism? / | 342.001 DOW.C Constitutionalism beyond liberalism / | 342.001 DYZ.P Philosophical foundations of constitutional law / | 342.001 ERI.H Hybrid constitutionalism : the politics of constitutional review in the Chinese special administrative regions / | 342.001 GRI.C Constitutionalism : past, present, and future / | 342.001 SAJ.C Constitution of freedom : an introduction to legal constitutionalism / | 342.001 SUN.C Comparative constitutionalism in South Asia / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 Ultima Instancia 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 Partystate, 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 therein"--
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