Rule of Law and Governance (Law in National Transformation)

Author: Qiang Shigong
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book serves as a witness to this era of amnesia, though it consciously or unconsciously resists it. When people have become accustomed to using the concept of "social transformation" without hesitation, the author consistently employs the concept of "state transformation" in this book, because without state transformation, actual social transformation cannot occur, or social transformation lacks particular significance. However, whether using "state transformation" or "social transformation," the discussion is framed within the theoretical framework of "state and society." Today, the distinction between "state transformation" and "social transformation" appears so important and urgent precisely because of how we theoretically approach "state and society." In this book, the "public sphere" is understood as a realm of mutual compromise and negotiation, thereby becoming a technical domain devoid of publicness, a purely procedural domain. State transformation is thus understood as the process in which various social forces mutually compromise and negotiate within this procedural domain, and the "revolution" involved is also understood as a procedural technique.