Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.12, 2017

China’s Legal Norms and the Assessment of Legislative Effectiveness

(Abstract)

Feng Yujun

Law is an important tool of national governance. Good law is the prerequisite for good governance, so complete and satisfactory legal norms are not only the prime essential for the construction of a legal system, but also the basic symbol of a country based on law and the basic guarantee of political stability and social development. To summarize the experience and lessons of the quantitative assessment of the rule of law in China and conduct a macroassessment of the Chinese rule of law system, it is necessary to uphold clear and definite values, to have a rigorous and rational rule of law theory, and give serious consideration to the logical consistency of statistics and indicator specifications. Only in this way can we achieve a comprehensive statistical research goal with multiple entities, types and angles. This paper constructs a system of legislative assessment whose indicators are completeness; a scientific and democratic nature; and being subject to supervision. The survey instruments we have designed for the general public and legal experts and practitioners use the empirical research methods of random sampling and purposive surveys to examine the actual situation of legal norms in China and provide credible assessment outcomes. This will assist us in understanding the roots of the establishment and implementation of China’s legal system, with the constitution at its heart, and will help us to improve it.