| Using data extracted from 29 provincial laws on the protection of women in China promulgated during the 1980s, the current study tests Black's (1976) proposition that the quantity of law varies with stratification, morphology, culture, organization, and social control. Our analysis yielded little support for Black's propositions except significant direct relationships between morphology and the quantity of five types of provincial laws. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternative explanations for the observed findings and the implications oof this research for further studies on the development of law. |
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