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Heaven has eyes : a history of Chinese law /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Law and Justice in Chinese History -- Five Punishments and Beyond : The Evolution of Penal Codes in Imperial China -- From the Imperial Capital to the Magistrate's Court : Judicial Practices in Imperial China -- The Emperor, the Family, and the Land: Law and Order in Imperial China -- Law and Justice in Late Qing and Republican China, 1901- -- The Best of the Chinese and of the Western : Legal-Judicial Reform in the Late Qing, 1901- -- The Rule of Law, Judicial Independence, and Due Process : Ideals and Realities in the Republican Era, 1912- -- Bandits, Collaborators, and Wives/Concubines: Criminal and Civil Justice in the Republican Era, 1912- -- "Contradictions between the People and the Enemy" : Criminal Justice as the "Proletarian Dictatorship" -- "Contradictions among the People" : Mediation and Adjudication of Civil Disputes -- The Legal System and the Rule of Law : Changes in Criminal Justice, 1977- -- "Naked Officials" and "Heavenly Net" : Changes in Criminal Justice, 1997- -- "Look toward Money" : Civil Justice in Post-Mao China, 1977- -- Conclusion : Heaven Has Eyes…”
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Political leadership and Erdoğan /
Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter I; Leadership; The Power of Words; Populism; Consultation and Collective Reasoning; Death and Love for Public Office; Solemnity and Dignity; Chapter II; The Purpose of Politics; Justice; On Legitimacy; Obedience and Social Contract; Consultation and Collective Reasoning; The Common Good and the Public Interest; Realist-Idealist Politics; On Justice; Ethics; Chapter III; Development and Urbanization; Compromise and Dialogue; Balcony Speeches and Empathy; Raison D'etat Versus the Rule of Law; Nationalism and Domesticism…”
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Coup : the day the Democrats ousted their governor, put Republican Lamar Alexander in office early, and stopped a pardon scandal /
Table of Contents: “…The stranger -- The sharecropper's son and Nixon's choirboy -- The red-and-black plaid shirt -- The murders -- The madness -- A man of great promise -- The dominion of the Editor-in-Chief -- The Attorney General and the rule of law -- Illustration gallery -- The new list and the ticking clock -- The turmoil -- The call -- The rise of the speaker -- The cosmos of the Lieutenant Governor -- The dance -- The decision -- Illustration gallery -- The yellow-dog Chief Justice -- The arrival -- The oath -- The scramble -- The long night -- The white morning -- Epilogue: what became of them -- Timeline -- Postscript: A note on sources -- Sources: The interviews -- Lost manuscript found: My view of the coup from the eye of the storm / by Lamar Alexander.…”
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The long 1989 : decades of global revolution /
Table of Contents: “…Dimitrov -- Dialogical democracy : King, Michnik, and the American culture wars / Jeffrey Stout -- The virtue of not inventing anything / István Rév -- The rule of law after the short twentieth century : launching a global career / Martin Krygier -- Catalyst of history : Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the legacies of 1989 in the Middle East / Samuel Helfont -- Social movement vs. social arrest : the global occupations of the twenty-first century / Mehmet Dösemeci -- Euromaidan and the 1989 legacy : solidarity in action? …”
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