Judicial Discretion within Adjudicative Committee Proceedings in China

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-24

3. The Organization of the Court

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   Pages 25-45

4. Committee Goal

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   Pages 47-63

5. Information Processing

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   Pages 65-89

6. Committee Composition

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   Pages 91-113

7. Committee Procedure

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   Pages 115-144

8. Discretion, Judicial Independence, and Accountability

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   Pages 145-164

9. Concluding Remarks

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   Pages 165-166

10. Back Matter

    Pages 167-192

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This book studies the organizational influences on judicial discretion within Adjudicative Committee (AC) proceedings in China. It argues that institutional reforms and practice have mainly reduced judicial discretion within AC proceedings through the rationalization of organizational processes. This central argument will be of particular interest to the readers, as previous studies offer little insight into the overall impacts of judicial institution reforms. This book is the first that uses the bounded rationality theory developed in economics and related disciplines to formulate an analytic framework for a systematic and comprehensive examination of the impacts of organizational factors on discretion within Adjudicative Committees’ decision-making processes. Readers will gain a practical and fresh understanding of the Chinese judicial reforms.

• Chinese Adjudicative Committee
• Decision Making
• Judicial Discretion
• Judicial Independence & Accountability
• Judicial Reform

• School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  Li Li

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