Authoritarian Legality and State Capitalism in China

Susan H. Whiting
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This review addresses three questions surrounding authoritarian legality and state capitalism in China. First, what is legality, and does it exist in China's Leninist single-party state? Scholars who characterize the system as order maintenance find the absence of legality. Those employing dual-state and instrumentalist views of law find partial legality. Scholars promoting the notion of bare legality find complete legality. Second, does authoritarian legality strengthen regime legitimacy? Scholars agree that the state seeks legitimation through its embrace of authoritarian legality. Empirical research tests this claim. Third, is China in transition from plan to market, and what is the role of law in state capitalism? The teleology of the transition paradigm overlooks illiberal underpinnings of property rights and factor markets. Answers to these questions help explain regime resilience, economic growth, economic crisis, and inequality in China. Both the institution of the dual state and the perpetuation of plan elements reinforce state power.
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中国的威权法制与国家资本主义
本文论述了围绕中国威权合法性和国家资本主义的三个问题。第一,什么是合法性?在列宁主义的一党专政的中国,合法性是否存在?将其定性为秩序维护的学者发现其合法性缺失。那些采用双重国家和工具主义法律观点的人发现了部分合法性。提倡裸合法性的学者发现了完全合法性。第二,专制合法性是否加强了政权的合法性?学者们一致认为,国家通过接受威权合法性来寻求合法性。实证研究证实了这一说法。第三,中国正在从计划经济向市场经济转型吗?法律在国家资本主义中的作用是什么?转型范式的目的论忽略了产权和要素市场的非自由主义基础。这些问题的答案有助于解释中国的政权弹性、经济增长、经济危机和不平等。双重国家的建立和计划要素的延续都强化了国家权力。
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