Taking Constitution(alism) seriously? Perspectives of constitutional review and political changes in China

摘要

"Of the plausible scenarios for China's future, the possibility of a new constitutionalism has been taken seriously by only a few Western specialists. Yet the constitutionalist scenario gains credibility from the improbability of the alternatives", argued Andrew Nathan as early as 1995 under a title at that time quite avant-gardiste: China's Constitutionalist Option (...).