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Civil Society in China : How Society Speaks to the State

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Why are there successful policy advocacy cases in China?
“Judicial Interpretation on Environmental Public Interest Litigation, which
is a powerful sword, has been made. We hope this sword can cut through
the dirty stream and clean the grey smog air. It will be like a sword of
Damocles that hangs above the polluters” (Lin and Tuholske 2015). This is
a famous quote from Justice Zheng Xuelin, who is also the director of the
Environment and Resources Law Tribunal at the Supreme People’s Court
in China. The Environmental Public Interest Litigation Zheng refers to is a
legal system which allows environmental non-governmental organizations
(ENGOs) in China to prosecute polluters. Before 2015, Chinese ENGOs did
not have the right to file Environmental Public Interest Litigation (EPIL),
even though ENGOs in many countries have been doing so for decades.
Chinese ENGOs did not win the right to engage in EPIL easily. In the fight
for this right, they submitted numerous policy proposals on various levels
over the past decade.

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Call Number

300.6 RUN c

Publisher

New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group., 2022

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-003-04931-9

Classification

300

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

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Edition

Cet. 1

Subject(s)

Pemerintahan

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