Bureaucrats’ corruption and competition in public administration

Competition in public administration is often advocated as a solution to bureaucrats’ corruption. However, there are no well developed analyses of how competition could succeed and the issue of its detailed design has not been carefully addressed so far. In this paper, we put forward a series of models that help understand what competition in public administration can actually accomplish. We distinguish two different shapes that corruption may take: bribery and extortion, and we demonstrate, under the usual assumption of asymmetric information as to the honesty of the bureaucrats, that while competition is effective in fighting extortion it exacerbates bribery. Given that corruption normally manifests itself simultaneously under the two different shapes, an anti-corruption policy based upon competition is bound to face a serious trade-off: trying to curb one of them through competition implies making the other worse. This result holds, with some differences, under exogenous and endogenous bureaucrats’ “honesty”. The dual aspect of corruption is probably one of the most serious—and so far largely neglected—obstacles to any effective anti-corruption policy.     

论犯罪黑数问题的成因及对策

犯罪黑数，是指事实上犯罪行为已经发生，但由于种种原因未予记载到犯罪统计中的犯罪数量。对实际发生的犯罪事实是否能毫无遗漏的予以追究，就需要排除立案不实、群众不举报以及在制度管理、统计遗漏等方面存在的问题，为切实做好预防工作，要求我们为警方真实立案松绑。同时要建立健全犯罪统计的各项制度、监督机制以及畅通群众的报案渠道和犯罪调查制度。才能有效的消灭犯罪黑数的形成。     

两岸媒体交流历程及展望

文章简要回顾两岸媒体交流的历程,分析存在的问题,阐明两岸媒体交流科学发展的意义并作出展望.     

试析党的制度执行力问题

党的制度执行力问题,是党的制度建设的核心问题,更是当前提高党的建设科学化水平面临的一个亟待解决的问题.文章从制度质量因素、主体行为因素和文化因素等三个方面探究了党的制度执行力问题的产生机理,最后从加强制度建设、优化主体行为和培育先进的执行力文化等三个方面提出了相应的对策思考.     

论司法鉴定人出庭作证

鉴定人在诉讼中起着重要的作用，鉴定结论必须经过审查、质证后才能在庭审中加以运用，鉴定人出庭作证也是必要的，然而，由于种种因素的影响和制约，当前我国司法实践中鉴定人出庭甚少，相关制度应当加以完善，以提高鉴定人的出庭率。     

Detection of deception with fMRI: Are we there yet?

A decade of spectacular progress in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology and systems neuroscience research has so far yielded few changes in our daily lives. The dearth of clinical applications of this prolific and academically promising research tool began raising the eyebrows of the public and the research funding agencies. This may be one of the reasons for the enthusiasm and interest paid to the growing body of literature suggesting that blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) fMRI of the brain could be sensitive to the differences between lie and truth. The word ‘differences’ is critical here since it refers to the often‐ignored core concept of BOLD fMRI: it is only sensitive to differences between two brain states. Thus, available studies report using fMRI to discriminate between lie and truth or some other comparative state rather than to positively identify deception. This nuance is an example of the extent to which applied neuroscience research does not lend itself to the type of over‐simplification that has plagued the interpretation of fMRI‐based lie detection by the popular press and the increasingly vocal academic critics. As an early contributor to the modest stream of data on fMRI‐based lie detection, I was asked by Dr Aldert Vrij to write a piece in favour of fMRI‐based lie detection, to be contrasted with a piece by Dr Sean Spence presenting an opposite point of view ( Spence, 2008 ). This seemingly straightforward task presented two hurdles: having to respond to the popular as well as scientific view of what lie detection with fMRI is and present a wholly positive view of evolving experimental data.     

和谐文化的诗性新解

文章认为传统文化资源里富蕴中国特色的诗性.令人应当用创新的视角审读、发掘和谐文化的诗性.举凡人与自然,人与人之间和人与自我等诸方面,和谐文化都有许多应该加以传承和光大的当代价值.     

Multilevel policy implementation and the where of learning: the case of the information system for school buildings in Italy

Policy Sciences - The paper builds on the case of the design and implementation of the National Information System for School Buildings in Italy. The project is one of digitalisation of the public...     

Team boundary-spanning activities and performance of technology transfer organizations: evidence from China

The Journal of Technology Transfer - This study performs an in-depth analysis of the causes and consequences of team boundary-spanning activities in the context of Chinese technology transfer, by...