Users and non-users: Legal experience and its effect on legal consciousness

Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 204-233

  Gallagher, Mary E ^a   Wang, Yuhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84876580667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511977008.008     Document Type: Chapter

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