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Between the Prerogative and the Normative States: The Evolving Power to Detain in China’s Political-Legal System

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 11. Juli 2022
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The Law & Ethics of Human Rights
Aus der Zeitschrift The Law & Ethics of Human Rights Band 16 Heft 1

Abstract

This article uses Ernst Fraenkel’s dual-state framework as an analytical tool to study those conflicting imperatives and constitutional tensions with a focus on the power to detain. This article makes the argument that China has emerged as a dual state with a normal state that functions increasingly with a rule-based government in inter-personal matters and a prerogative state that solidifies control in areas that are regarded as political sensitive. Overall, while the equilibrium between the normative and prerogative states has been evolving in China, it has remained stable. The Party has been able to build a relatively self-defined and self-referencing legal system to provide the certainty and order that the Chinese political economy demands while maintaining a zone of exception, expansive and continuing to evolve, for the prerogative state to safeguard authoritarian rule.

Keywords: criminal justice; detention; dual state; rights; judicial review; legality; normative state; prerogative state
Corresponding author: Hualing Fu, Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities and Dean of Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The author thanks Ngoc Son Bui, Cora Chan, Michael Palmer, Samuli Seppanen, Peter Wang, and an anonymous reviewer for their insightful comments on different versions of this article.

Published Online: 2022-07-11
Published in Print: 2022-05-25

© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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  4. Between the Prerogative and the Normative States: The Evolving Power to Detain in China’s Political-Legal System
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https://doi.org/10.1515/lehr-2022-2006
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
criminal justice; detention; dual state; rights; judicial review; legality; normative state; prerogative state

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Constitutional Design and the Urban/Rural Divide
  3. The Dual State in the United States: The Case of Lynching and Legal Lynchings
  4. Between the Prerogative and the Normative States: The Evolving Power to Detain in China’s Political-Legal System
  5. From Legal Pluralism to Dual State: Evolution of the Relationship between the Chinese and Hong Kong Legal Orders
  6. The Mix of Latin American Populist Constitutionalism
  7. Deconstructing Mixed Constitutions
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