Hybrid constitutionalism: the politics of constitutional review in the Chinese special administrative regions

"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 an...

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1. Verfasser: Ip, Eric Chi Yeung (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Comparative constitutional law and policy
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN:9781108163804
DOI:10.1017/9781108163804