When do authoritarian rulers eschew arbitrary rule and instead adhere to the rule of law? This paper seeks to address this puzzle in the Chinese context. Drawn theoretical insights from North and Weingast (1989), this paper proposes a simple theory to explain the variation of quality of courts at the sub-national level in China. I argue that due to specific incentives facing local Chinese Commu...

Justice researchers have long puzzled over the enormous variation in the distribution rule considered appropriate in different situations, and no overall pattern of rule use has yet been identified. A series of in-depth, semistructured interviews was combined with a small-scale ( N = 229) survey carried out in the UK to test the hypothesis that it is the perception of the situation that mediate...

OBJECTIVE Four to 10% of patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) suffer a stroke or die within 7 days. Our objectives were to determine (1) current practice for investigating and treating emergency department (ED) patients with TIA, (2) willingness to use a clinical decision rule to identify patients at high risk of impending stroke or death, and (3) the required sensitivity of this rule....