RACIAL–ETHNIC INTOLERANCE AND SUPPORT FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: A CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISON*

This article tests cross-nationally the minority group threat thesis that public sentiments toward repressive crime-control policies reflect conflicted racial and ethnic relations. Using multiple data sets representing France, Belgium, the Netherlands, East and West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Denmark, Great Britain, Greece, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Canada, Ireland, and Portugal, we examine whether racial and ethnic intolerance—animus, resentments, or negative sentiments toward minorities—predicts greater support for the death penalty. Our results reveal that the respondents were significantly more likely to express support for capital punishment if they were racially or ethnically intolerant while controlling for other covariates of public opinion. These findings indicate that the link between support for capital punishment and racial and ethnic animus may occur universally in countries with conflicted racial and ethnic relations.     

试论新农村建设中的农民利益表达

农民群众是新农村建设的主体力量和直接受益者,只有充分尊重农民意愿,真正树立其主体地位,切实保护和落实其政治权利,新农村建设才会拥有源源不断的力量源泉。要发挥我国农民的主体作用,当务之急是真正落实农民对新农村建设的话语权。本文在分析农民利益表达现状的基础上,提出了新农村建设中农民如何进行利益表达的对策思路。     

Environmental dispute resolution and hazardous waste cleanups: A cautionary tale of policy implementation

New York State experimented with replacing their litigation-oriented system for achieving toxic dump site cleanup with one promising to lower transaction costs through alternative dispute resolution. Our analysis of outcomes is informed by three generations of implementation work focusing on (1) the motivations and incentives shaping individual behavior, (2) the larger organizational and political factors associated with variation across cases, and (3) the generic properties of policy implements. This mosaic approach to explanation produces, we believe, a more lifelike picture of use to policy makers for understanding the dynamic and interrelated nature of their choices.     

英国的调解制度--近期发展

本文分析了英国近来的一些案例,介绍了英国在采取非诉方法解决争议方面的最新发展,强调了法院在一些案件中的态度.     

‘Bilingual’ education and discontent in Xinjiang

Efforts to promote and impose Mandarin Chinese as the language of instruction in ethnic minority schools in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, aimed at further integrating the state and raising regional educational and economic quality, have had mixed success. The 2004 plan to consolidate Han Chinese and minority elementary and middle schools and to make Mandarin the universal language of instruction in those schools is fostering an immersive second-language environment without prior preparation for students, bringing native speakers of Mandarin into unfair competition with non-native speakers. The increased focus on Mandarin has already had grave consequences for ethnic relations, especially in urban Uyghur schools, where the project is focused, while the mandate for change in educational curriculum and methodology has also been poorly planned and remains under-resourced, negatively impacting educational quality. The Chinese government has available to it other language policy solutions that are both more workable and friendlier to minority sensibilities.     

建国前后党对加强执政能力问题的探索及当代启示

以毛泽东同志为首的第一代中央领导集体,在带领全党全国人民进行社会主义革命和建设中,确立了党的执政地位,建立了社会主义制度,并对加强党的执政能力建设方面进行了积极的探索,积累了宝贵的经验,对今天也有重要启示意义。     

诉权理论的批判与重构

诉权究竟是什么?本文从批判现有几大诉权学说的共同缺陷出发,通过考察诉权与法律的关系、诉权与审判权的关系和诉权的存在形式,提出诉权的人权权源论、诉权的利益保障价值论和诉权的运动状态论,力图从全新的视角探求诉权的本源。