William Hurst

Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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China's Phantom Urbanization and the Pathology of Ghost Cities

Journal of Contemporary Asia, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Jan 2015
Christian Sorace and William Hurst
University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Urbanization, Politics, Ghost Cities, Economy

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Reassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional Variation

Comparative Politics, Volume 46, Number 4 (July 2014): pp.459-482.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2014
William Hurst, Mingxing Liu, Yongdong Liu and Ran Tao
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, Peking University - School of Government, University College London - School of Management and University of Oxford
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China, Rural Politics, Contention, Petitioning, Governance

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The Judicial Cadre Evaluation System in China: From Quantification to Intra-State Legibility

The China Quarterly, 2015, Volume 224, pp. 933-954
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2015
Jonathan Kinkel and William Hurst
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Government and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, rule of law, judicial behavior, cadre evaluation, judicialization, rule by law, institutional incentives, quantification, legibility

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Access to Justice in Post-Mao China: Assessing the Politics of Criminal and Administrative Law

Journal of East Asian Studies, 11(3): 467-499 (September-December 2011)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Aug 2012
Jonathan Kinkel and William Hurst
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Government and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Law, Politics, Law and Society, Criminal, Administrative

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Understanding Contentious Collective Action by Chinese Laid-Off Workers: The Importance of Regional Political Economy

Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 94-120, Summer 2004
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Mar 2008
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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china, labor, unemployment, contentious politics, participation, protest, resistance, movement

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Mass Frames and Worker Protest

Chapter 3 in "Popular Protest in China" (K.J. O'Brien Ed.) Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008 - pp.71-87
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Social Movements, Contentious Politics, Frames, Culture, Structuralism

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Cases, Questions, and Comparison in Research on Contemporary Chinese Politics

Chapter 9 in "Contempory Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies" (A. Carlson, M.E Gallagher, K. Lieberthal, & M. Manion Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 - pp.162-177.
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 07 Sep 2013
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Comparative Politics, Political Science, Comparative Analysis, Subnational

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China's Contentious Pensioners

China Quarterly, No. 170, pp. 345-60, June 2002
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Mar 2008
William Hurst and Kevin J. O'Brien
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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China, protest, contention, pensions, biographical availability

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Indonesia's Courts of Industrial Relations: Context, Structure, and a Look Surabaya Cases

Indonesia, 97: 29-54 (April 2014).
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 24 May 2014
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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Indonesia, Courts, Labor

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Politics, Society and the Legal System in Contemporary China

Chapter 3 in "Law, Wealth and Power in China: Commercial Law Reforms in Context" (J. Garrick Ed.) London: Routledge, 2011 - pp.72-88.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Sep 2013
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Law, Courts, Politics

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Implementing China's Labour Law Reforms: Interests and Obligations at the Firm Level

Chapter 7 in "Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism" (J. Garrick Ed.) London: Routlegde, 2012 - pp.118-130
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
William Hurst, Jonathan Kinkel and Alexandra Sowash
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Government and Independent
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China, Law, Labour, Work, Firms, Economy, Politics

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Social Unrest

Chapter 19 in "Handbook of China's Governance and Domestic Politics" (C. Ogden Ed.) Abingdon: Routledge, 2013 - pp.210-220.
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Sep 2013
Marie-Eve Reny and William Hurst
University of Montreal - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, contentious politics, unrest, protest, politics, sociology

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Grasping the Large and Releasing the Small: A Bottom-Up Perspective on Reform in a County-Level Enterprise

Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance [J.C. Teets & W. Hurst, Eds.] Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2015 - pp.103-116.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2015
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Political Economy, Reform, State-Owned Enterprises

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Nascent Protections in Emerging Giants: Struggles to Judicialize Labor Rights in China and Indonesia

Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries: Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap (Randall Peerenboom & Tom Ginsburg, eds.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014, Chapter 13 (pp. 270-87)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2014
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Indonesia, Law, Labor, Judicialization

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Recession and the Politics of Class and Production in China

New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Volume 33, Number 4 (December 2011), 509-524
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Aug 2012
William Hurst and Christian Sorace
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science and University of Texas at Austin
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China, Labor, Recession, 2008, Class, Contention

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Workers in Post-Socialist China: Shattered Rice Bowls, Fragmented Subjectivities

Chapter 5 in: 'Chinese Capitalisms: Historical Emergence and Political Implications' (Y.W. Chu Ed.) Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, pp.100-122, 2010
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Sep 2013
James Hudson, William Hurst and Christian Sorace
University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern University - Department of Political Science and University of Texas at Austin
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China, unemployment, politics

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A China Model or Just a Broken Mould?

Chapter 1 in "Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, 'Islamic' and Neo-Liberal Alternatives" (R. Springborg Ed.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009 - pp.13-25.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Sep 2013
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, Economy, Development, Model, Politics

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The City as the Focus: The Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Urban Politics

China Information, XX(3): 457-479, 2006
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Sep 2013
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
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China, politics, political science, city, urban, state of the field

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Chinese Law and Governance: Moving beyond Responsive Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law

The Journal of Chinese Governance, Volume 1, Number 3 (September 2016): 457-469
Posted: 14 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2016
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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Rule of Law, Politics, Authoritarianism, Governance, China

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Reconfiguring Judicial Institutions after Massive Upheaval: Examples from Indonesia and China

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 16 Jul 2012
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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State Capacity and Authoritarian Responses to Contention: China and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 01 Aug 2011
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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Slowdown in the World’S Workshop? Chinese Labor in the Great Recession

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
William Hurst
Northwestern University - Department of Political Science

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