Building a Government Based on the Rule of Law

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Building a Government Based on the Rule of Law in China, 1949–Present: A Historical Review

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 1-13

3. The Legislative Process of Administrative Law in China

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 15-26

4. The Reform of Administrative Examination and Approval System and Administrative Permission

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 27-55

5. Welfare State and Government Benefits

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 57-78

6. Legislation of Due Process and Administrative Procedure

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 79-107

7. Information Disclosure and Government Transparency

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 109-126

8. Emergency and Government Response Management

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 127-155

9. The Development and Improvement of Administrative Review System

   • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

   Pages 157-175

10. Developing and Improving the Administrative Litigation System

    • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

    Pages 177-194

11. State Compensation and Government Accountability

    • Huaide Ma, Jingbo Wang

    Pages 195-208

12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-214

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This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the successes and failures in China’s current legal system construction. It systematically and comprehensively examines the development of China’s rule of law policy since the reform and opening up, as well as future trends. The main areas covered include: The course, achievements and motivation behind China’s construction of law-based administration; Development, status quo and general characteristics of administrative legislation; Reform of the administrative examination and approval system and the administrative licensing system; The relationship between social security system reform, beneficial administration and service government; The development of administrative law in China; Origin of the concept of due process, experiences with and development trends concerning China’s administrative legislative procedure; The importance of government information, open practices, problems and development trend; History, current situation, reformmechanism of the emergency management system and the improvement of the legal system for emergency requisitions; The course, practical problems in and reasons for the enhanced approach of administrative reconsideration system; The course, achievements in, current situation and enhanced approach of administrative litigation system; The course of the national compensation system; and the construction of responsible government and administrative accountability system.

• Administration of law
• Chinese Administrative Legislation
• Chinese legal system
• Legal construction
• Prospect of Chinaese legal system construction
• Rule by law

• School of Law-Based Government, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China

  Huaide Ma

• Research Center for Government by Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China

  Jingbo Wang

Huaide ​Ma was born in Xining, Qinghai province, in 1965. He is the vice president of China University of Political Science and Law, president of the Research Center for Government by Law—a Key Research Base of Beijing Social Science; professor; advisor of doctoral students; vice president of the academic committee of China University of Political Science and Law; president of China Behavior Law Association; standing director of China Law Society; vice president of China Supervision Society; vice president of the Chinese Society for Academic Degree and Graduate Education; guest consultant for the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China; expert consultant for the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; member of the Coordination Committee of National Judicial Examination and; consultant or expert consultant of National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Health, and the people’s governments of Beijing, Shandong province, Fujian Province and Hunan province. He graduated from Beijing University and obtained a Bachelor of Law in 1988. He received his doctoral degree in China University of Political Science and Law in 1993. He became the first person to earn a doctorate in Administrative Procedure Law in China. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University, Boston University, University of Sydney, and the University of Melbourne.

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