権威主義的体制における司法(行政訴訟)の役割+レーヨンフーブッド


●“Why China Allows its Citizens to Sue the Government”(The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog, July 13, 2008)

Why would a dictatorship like China tolerate, and even encourage, such challenges to state action?
The basic story is one of principal and agent. A large, complex government like that of China has lots of lower level officials who may not follow the policies of higher levels of government and party. Allowing citizens to identify instances of malfeasance helps solve this agency problem for government. Thus we should not think of Chinese administrative law as being primarily about the rights of citizens in a latent democracy. Instead we should think of it as part of a strategy of legitimation designed to perpetuate party rule.


●Axel Leijonhufvud(2008), “Keynes and the Crisis(pdf)”(CEPR Policy Insight No. 23

In CEPR Policy Insight No. 23, Axel Leijonhufvud asks not what we have learnt, but what we should have learnt from Keynes in light of the current financial turmoil.

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