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Article: Lawyers, state officials and significant others: Symbiotic exchange in the Chinese legal services market
Title | Lawyers, state officials and significant others: Symbiotic exchange in the Chinese legal services market |
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Issue Date | 2011 |
Citation | China Quarterly, 2011, n. 206, p. 276-293 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In China's legal services market, lawyers face strong competition from a variety of alternative legal service providers. Based upon 256 interviews with law practitioners and public officials, three years of ethnographic work on a professional internet forum, and extensive archival research, this article develops a theory of symbiotic exchange to analyse the competition between lawyers, basic-level legal workers and other practitioners in ordinary legal work, as well as how the state regulates these competing occupational groups. It argues that the dynamics of professional competition in the Chinese legal services market can be explained by the symbiotic exchange between law practitioners in the market and their regulatory agencies and officials in the state. Chinese lawyers have a weak market position because their exchange with the state is often not as strong and stable as their competitors. The prevalence of symbiotic exchange leads to the structural isomorphism between market and state institutions in China's transitional economy. © Copyright The China Quarterly 2011. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/325222 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.716 |
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dc.contributor.author | Liu, Sida | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-27T07:30:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-27T07:30:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | China Quarterly, 2011, n. 206, p. 276-293 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0305-7410 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/325222 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In China's legal services market, lawyers face strong competition from a variety of alternative legal service providers. Based upon 256 interviews with law practitioners and public officials, three years of ethnographic work on a professional internet forum, and extensive archival research, this article develops a theory of symbiotic exchange to analyse the competition between lawyers, basic-level legal workers and other practitioners in ordinary legal work, as well as how the state regulates these competing occupational groups. It argues that the dynamics of professional competition in the Chinese legal services market can be explained by the symbiotic exchange between law practitioners in the market and their regulatory agencies and officials in the state. Chinese lawyers have a weak market position because their exchange with the state is often not as strong and stable as their competitors. The prevalence of symbiotic exchange leads to the structural isomorphism between market and state institutions in China's transitional economy. © Copyright The China Quarterly 2011. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | China Quarterly | - |
dc.title | Lawyers, state officials and significant others: Symbiotic exchange in the Chinese legal services market | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0305741011000269 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-79960242593 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 206 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 276 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 293 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1468-2648 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000292582200002 | - |