title: Setting constitutional boundaries on institutional reforms in China
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Ren, Xirong
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T13:03:49Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T13:03:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ren Xirong. 2019. Setting constitutional boundaries on institutional reforms in China. Pravovedenie 63 (2): 257–274.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2019.204
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19366
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: China has experienced dramatic social transformation over the past 40  years of reform and
  opening up. While achieving tremendous economic achievements, China is also facing a series
  of challenges due to the complexity of social governance. Advancement among state institutions reform of China since 2014 is part of the aforementioned social transformation process.
  The institutional reform involves changes in the powers of the legislature, executive and judicial
  organs, which promotes the formation of a new state organ system and directly leads to the
  2018 constitutional amendment. The issue of constitutional limits for the reform of state institutions has aroused widespread concern in academia. The Constitution contains various regulatory bases for institutional reforms. Some of the reforms are clearly bound by the Constitution,
  some are restricted by its general provisions, and some transcend the framework of power distribution defined in the Constitution. In practice, institutional reforms involve three strategies in
  response to the Constitution. First, compliance with the Constitution. Second, deviation from
  the Constitution and promotion of constitutional amendments. Third, deviation from the Constitution with avoidance of constitutional adjustment. This article holds the view that over the
  course of social transformation, reforms have to remain current while improving the Constitution. Nevertheless, the Constitution that provides the authoritative structure and stable expectation for the state and its citizens shall not be neglected. Any major systemic reform with regard
  to the Constitution must adhere to formal constitutionality as the primary foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Funding information: Major project “Research on theory and practice of constitutional control”
  (16jjd820006), Key research base of Humanities and Social sciences of Ministry of education of the People’s Republic of China
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 63; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: institutional reforms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: constitutional amendment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: formal constitutionality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: institutional transformation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Setting constitutional boundaries on institutional reforms in China
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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