Determinants of legislative turnover in Western Europe, 1945–2015

This article explains legislative turnover in eight West European legislatures over 152 general elections in the period 1945–2015. Turnover is measured as the rate of individual membership change in unicameral or lower chambers. It is the outcome of a legislative recruitment process with a supply and a demand side. Decisions made by contenders affect supply, while decisions made by parties and voters influence demand. Such decisions are shaped by four political and institutional factors: the institutional context of political careers, or structure of political career opportunities; political party characteristics; electoral swings; and electoral systems. Ten specific hypotheses are tested within this theoretical framework. The structure of political career opportunities is the most decisive factor explaining variability in turnover rates, followed by electoral swings and political parties. Electoral systems show less substantive effects. Electoral volatility is the predictor with the most substantive effects, followed by duration of legislative term, strength of bicameralism, regional authority, gender quotas, level of legislative income and district magnitude.     

浅谈我国被迫辞职制度的不足与完善 —— 以司法实务为视角

我国劳动法关于被迫辞职的立法经历了一个不断完善的过程。现有的被迫辞职制度存在适用范围狭窄、认定条件宽松、相关规定不明确以及用人单位的法律责任过轻等问题,进而导致司法实务中部分裁判的社会效果不佳。可以从采取例举与一般规定相结合的立法技术、主客观相结合的判断标准、规定合理的催告期、按违法解除承担法律责任等方面予以完善。     

窃听、窃照专用器材立法完善思考

非法使用窃听、窃照专用器材屡禁不止，对公众隐私、国家安全和公共秩序造成了严重侵害。究其原因，现有的法律制裁体系存在漏洞，惩戒力度不足，相关法律之间存在冲突。面对当前愈演愈烈的犯罪形势，有必要重新检视立法的相关规定，完善法律制裁体系。破解这一难题，首先，应当完善刑事制裁，修订《刑法》第283条和284条的相关规定，提升法定刑的幅度，增加罚金刑；其次，应将非法生产、使用和销售间谍专用器材以及非法生产、使用和销售窃听、窃照专用器材的行为纳入《治安管理处罚法》的调整范畴，同时，还应当探索对可能用于窃听、窃照的专用器材设定行政许可的可行性。     

How practices do not matter

Abstract

In his most recent work, Sangiovanni has retreated from his stronger claims about practice-dependence. Instead of claiming that principles of justice must be practice-dependent, he now expresses his claim in a modal form, arguing that there are several ways in which practices may matter. While merely mapping out the logical space of possibilities seems to look like a modest ambition, the conditions for when practices do matter according to Sangiovanni’s analysis are easily met in actuality. Consequently, if he is right, the practice-dependent approach covers a significant number of political theories. Sangiovanni’s main claim is that higher-level principles with an open texture, which include most higher-level principles in political philosophy, justify a practice-dependent method in the form of a mode of application called ‘mediated deduction,’ according to which a thoroughgoing investigation is made of the nature of the target practice. Our task in this paper is to reject this claim. This is done in two steps. First, we question Sangiovanni’s distinction between instrumental application and mediated deduction, arguing that it remains unclear whether it marks out two sufficiently distinct ‘modes’ to do any theoretical work. Second, we argue that the practice-dependent method is not required even if two such modes are established.     

关于生态发展区的土地发展权转移

土地发展权是经济法意义上之权，具有公权和私权的二重属性，其所保护的法益为社会公共利益，它有利于实现社会资源配置的帕累托最优。在构建生态发展区土地发展权转移机制时应坚持经济法的理念和原则，调制的实体内容和程序规范要有法可依，调制行为要符合生态和经济发展的客观规律，调制的绩效要兼顾效率和公平；在推进生态发展区土地发展权转移时必须定位实施主体，明确职责，建立高效、透明的开发区管理制度，科学合理地设立招商引资门槛，以保障生态发展区的发展机会与发展权利。     

应对数字艺术公共安全隐患的立法策略研究

当下数字艺术的产生和迅速崛起从根本上改变了原子艺术长期以来建构起来的艺术生态和艺术秩序,引发了某些引起人们重大关切的公共安全问题,其中突出的有网瘾问题、网络文化低俗化问题、数字谣言问题以及数字艺术知识产权保护问题等。这些问题不同于原子艺术公共安全隐患发生学上的外生性、随机性和个别性,而是呈现为内生性、公共性、流行性和危害性特征。一条比较可行的防控策略是在对数字艺术实施事前立法规范的同时,对数字艺术公共安全机制同步实施事后追溯监管。此外,加强数字艺术公共安全性及其应对机制的科研攻关和科普宣传,尽快提高全社会对数字艺术特殊规律及其公共安全性的认识和了解也是当务之急。     

中国国际海底区域开发立法探析

"区域"开发对国家具有重要的战略意义,但我国缺乏调整"区域"开发的国内立法。法律的缺失于我国"区域"开发的发展不利,也无助于我国在国际海底管理局及有关规章的制定中发挥更大作用,更有可能引发国家责任。以《联合国海洋法公约》为主体的"区域"法律制度,为我国"区域"开发立法提供了法律依据,也为我国"区域"开发立法应遵循的原则提供了指引。采用专门立法来调整"区域"内的活动是国际上通行的模式,也更加符合我国的实际情况,因而应为我国所采纳,以推动我国履行该《公约》赋予的义务,提升我国在"区域"国际法规则制定中的话语权,规范我国在"区域"内的活动,维护与拓展我国在"区域"的利益。     

论佛教对中国法治的借鉴意义

佛教自传入中国迄今已有两千多年历史,在历史发展进程中,已成为中国传统文化不可分割的一部分,对中国社会及传统法律制度产生广泛而深刻的影响。佛教戒律、因果律、佛教人文精神的阐述对现代法治、法律的比较与中国法治的有借鉴意义。     

环境行政许可的八个立法原则

在现代社会,许可证制度是防范环境风险最主要的法律制度。目前,学界对行政许可的一般立法原则(法律保留原则、便民效率原则、信赖保护原则、公开公平原则等)探讨甚多,而对环境行政许可具有自身特色的立法原则探讨较少。环境行政许可具有风险品性、科技背景、利益权衡、代际平衡、国际关联等五个特征,因此,环境行政许可的立法,除了须遵循行政许可的一般立法原则外,还须遵循预防、谨慎行事、合理开发利用、污染者负担、科技促进、公众参与、协同合作、国家环境资源主权与不损害国外环境等八个立法原则。这八个原则对具体制度的建构均有明确的要求,并在特定情况下使许可举证责任发生转移。     

论立法监督的价值

本文首先对立法监督的内涵进行了介绍，在对相关学说分析的基础上阐述了自己的观点，并对立法监督的对象和内容进行了总结；其次主要探讨了立法监督的价值，从法治、法律移植、立法质量三个角度剖析了立法监督的价值；最后指明了重视立法监督制度对我国建设社会主义和谐社会的现实意义。