Legal Reform in China: Institutions, Culture, and Selective Adaptation

The Evolving Law of Disputed Relocation: Constructing Inner‐City Renewal Practices in Shanghai, 1990–2005

“…Recently, researchers seeing Chinese society otherwise than through the lens of American-style democracy have begun to examine ordinary citizens' increasing use of law as a non-confrontational channel through which to encounter the top-down state (Perry and Selden, 2003;Potter, 2004;Chan et al, 2005;Chen and Wu, 2006;O'Brien and Li, 2006). The significance is that once legal enactments are officially announced to the public, they become a double-edged tool that dissenting residents can also wield for their own, very different ends (Alford, 1994).…”

Entrepreneurship in post-socialist economies: A typology and institutional contexts for market entrepreneurship

“…The conservative faction in the CCP, whose basis of legitimacy concerns MarxLeninism, considers entrepreneurial ventures as potential threats to the party's ideology, authority, and moral standards (Yang 2002). Leaders of this faction perceive improved legal institutions as potential challenges for the CCP's legitimacy (Potter 2004) and have attempted to employ rising income gap and social unrest to justify measures against private entrepreneurs (Kahn 2006). In the 1980s and the early 1990s, private entrepreneurs suffered discrimination and faced political persecution for their profit oriented behavior (Tsai 2006;Li et al 2006).…”

Adoption and policy implications of Japan’s new corporate governance practices after the reform

“…Potter (2003Potter ( , 2004 proposed using perception, legitimacy, and complementarity for explaining how selective adaptation proceeds in a foreign culture.…”