Embedded Courts : Judicial Decision-Making in China (Hardcover)

1. Chinese courts as embedded institutions; 2. The daily rounds of frontline judges; 3. Cohorts of judges; 4. Administrative embeddedness - the vertical hierarchy of control; 5. Political embeddedness - courts as a stability maintenance agency; 6. Social embeddedness - ties from within and from without; 7. Economic embeddedness - the political economy of court finances; 8. Conclusion; 9. Methodological appendix.