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Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

By: Ngoc Son Bui

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Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

By: Ngoc Son Bui

After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, there are only five socialist or communist countries left in the world – China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam – which constitute about one-quarter of the world’s population. Yet, there is little scholarship on their constitutions. These countries have seen varying socioeconomic changes in the decades since 1991, which have led in turn to constitutional changes. This book will investigate, from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, how and why the constitutional systems in these five countries have changed in the last three decades. The book then breaks the constitutional changes down into four questions: what are the substantive contents of constitutional change, what are the functions, what are the mechanisms, and what are the driving forces? These questions form a framework to process the changes the five countries have gone through, such as making new constitutions, amending current ones, introducing more rights, allowing citizens to engage in changes, enacting legislation, and defining the constitutional authority of the three state branches and their relationship with the Communist Party. While all five countries have adapted their constitutional systems, the degree, mechanisms, and influential factors are not identical and present considerable variations. This book examines and explores these differences and how they developed. Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World offers a comprehensive and holistic view of an understudied and overlooked area of constitutional law, essential for anyone studying or working in law, politics, or policy.

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0192592025

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9780192592026

Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

By: Ngoc Son Bui

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Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

By: Ngoc Son Bui

Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World explores four decades of legal reform in the socialist countries of China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba from a comparative perspective. Spanning the late 1970s to the present, it examines various projects, methods, strategies, contents, driving forces, and limitations of legislative reform, administrative reform, judicial reform, and reform of the legal profession. Legal reform in these countries is the project of the political elite to improve the legal system while retaining its core socialist principles. It is carried out through legislative enactments, amendments, and replacements, which the political elite adopt using incremental strategies to reform the legal system sporadically or systematically. Socialist legal reform is animated by the political aspiration to create the rule of law, the impact of social-economic change, and the influence of transnational and comparative law. Despite significant reforms, the socialist principles of the legal systems in these countries largely remain intact. This legal reform, however, varies considerably by country. Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World offers a holistic view of understudied jurisdictions in comparative law, essential for anyone studying or working in these areas in law, politics, or policy.

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0192671588

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Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia

By: Bui Ngoc Son

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Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia

By: Bui Ngoc Son

Western liberal constitutionalism has expanded recently, with, in East Asia, the constitutional systems of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan based on Western principles, and with even the socialist polities of China and Vietnam having some regard to such principles. Despite the alleged universal applicability of Western constitutionalism, however, the success of any constitutional system depends in part on the cultural values, customs and traditions of the country into which the constitutional system is planted. This book explains how the values, customs and traditions of East Asian countries are Confucian, and discusses how this is relevant to constitutional practice in the region. The book outlines how constitutionalism has developed in East Asia over a long period, considers different scholarly work on the ease or difficulty of integrating Western constitutionalism into countries with a Confucian outlook, and examines the prospects for such integration going forward. Throughout, the book covers detailed aspects of Confucianism and the workings of constitutions in practice.

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Routledge

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1317529057

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The Making of Little Saigon

Narratives of Nostalgia, (Dis)enchantments, and Aspirations

By: Tung X. Bui,Quynh H. Vo

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The Making of Little Saigon

Narratives of Nostalgia, (Dis)enchantments, and Aspirations

By: Tung X. Bui,Quynh H. Vo

A collective memoir of community reimagining, The Making of Little Saigon orchestrates the voices of activists, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars who have inhabited and nurtured Little Saigon, Orange County, California, into a beloved sanctuary—a sumptuous enclave of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in the US. This constellation of narratives chronicles collective memories of settlement, nostalgia, (dis)enchantments, and aspirations as the community has evolved over time. From oceanic crossings to forging a new home, every story interweaves and reverberates with a history of pain and beauty, disunity and solidarity, failure, and resilience as the community careens forward into an uncertain future.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761874291

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9780761874294

Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

By: Ngoc Son Bui

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Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

By: Ngoc Son Bui

Comparative constitutional law has a long and distinguished history in intellectual thought and in the construction of public law. As political actors and the people who create or modify their constitutional orders, they often wish to learn from the experience and learning of others. This cross-fertilization and mutual interaction has only accelerated with the onset of globalization, which has transformed the world into an interconnected web that facilitates dialogue and linkages across international and regional structures. Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism seeks to publish scholarship of the highest quality in constitutional law that deepens our knowledge of local, national, regional, and global phenomena through the lens of comparative public law. Book jacket.

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0198851340

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Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

By: Ngoc Son Bui

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Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia

Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia

The Making of Little Saigon

The Making of Little Saigon

Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World

Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

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