Identity Politics in Chinese Courts: A Psychological View

• In Event: Law and Courts in Authoritarian China

Brief Overview

Based on 58,158 cases of “citizens vs. mandarins” from 2005 to 2020 and matched information of 7,310 corresponding Chinese People’s Assessors, we testify to the trigger and amplifier effect of laymen’s detached and embedded identities in court.

Authors

• Yue Hu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Yi Shu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Xiaohong Yu, Tsinghua University