Socialist Constitutionalism in Contemporary China

• Main Author: He, Baogang
• Other Authors: Dowdle, Michael W.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: Politics and International Relations; Constitutional and Administrative Law
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85469; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43702
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This chapter examines the Chinese discourse on a socialist vision of constitutionalism as an alternative to liberal constitutionalism. 1 Chinese scholars have been searching for a new constitutionalism – one which differs from the so- called state- socialism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and...