1st Edition

Preventing Dispute Risk and Constructing Harmonious Society

386 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This two-volume set analyzes dispute resolution and social risk in modern China, examining both the landscape of disputes and risks in modern China and the various resolution mechanisms for different disputes. The first volume examines different types of disputes that occur in both rural and urban China. Using theoretical frameworks, the book describes different disputes and their... Read more

Volume 1  1. Disputes from the Perspective of Socio-Legal Studies  2. The Occurrence and Resolution of Rural Disputes  3. Dynamic Monitoring of Urban Contradictions and Disputes  4. Dynamic Monitoring of Grassroots Disputes and Their Social Risks  5. Mentality of Grassroots People and the Construction of Safety-Valve Institutions  6. Effective Ways to Prevent Dispute Risks  Volume 2  1. Malfunction of Ritual and Legal Mechanisms: Escalation of Rural Family Disputes  2. Land Expropriation and Relocation Disputes: Resolution Practices of Grassroots Governments  3. Alienation in Civil Disputes in Rural Areas and a Governance Approach  4. Grassroots Mediation and Dispute Resolution Mechanism Integrating Law and Ritual  5. The Use of Law to Resolve Civil Disputes and Its Unintended Consequences  6. The Mechanisms for Resolving Grassroots Contradictions and Maintaining Stability in Inter-Ethnic Society  7. Transformation of the Principal Contradiction in Society and Risks of Grassroots Disputes

Biography

Lu Yilong is Professor at the School of Sociology and Wu Yuzhang Emeritus Professor at Renmin University of China. His main research interests are Legal Sociology, Rural Sociology and Environmental Sociology.