Management not models: adaptability,responsiveness, and a few lessons from football

Despite a swathe of critiques of logframes and other blueprint approaches to development over the last 30 years, most aid infrastructure continues to concentrate on the design and subsequent implementation of closed models. This article does not propose an alternative to blueprints, but challenges the inflexibility of their implementation, which is inadequate given the complex nature of social change. It proposes a supplementary management and learning approach which enables implementers to be dynamic, adaptive, and responsive to problems and opportunities. Emphasising the role of donors, the paper presents a case study of one donor-led programme in Bangladesh doing just this.     

Human (In)Security and Democracy in Central America

Human security has increasingly shifted attention to the individual, while the state has become guarantor (or violator) of security given its role in governing the domestic environment. This article examines how variations in regime forms influence security, pointing to the importance of political security in the wider human security framework. To illustrate, the article examines the nature of political security in Central America, a region with weakly democratized states and histories of political violence. The findings suggest a link between democracy and human security that is mediated by state capacity and the ability to control non-state violence against individuals.     

论马基雅维里的政治理论观

意大利人文主义思想家马基雅维里的政治理论,切断了国家、君权与上帝的联系,使国家学说与宗教神学相分离,使政治理论观点摆脱了道德的束缚,掀开了政治学说的新篇章。他既鼓吹君主制又讴歌共和制的二元化政体理论,是符合意大利现实的进步思想。马基雅维里的政治理论,奠定了近代资产国家学说和政治学说的基础。     

建国初期婚姻制度改革研究

婚姻制度是规范男女两性关系和家庭关系的一种法律制度 ,婚姻关系处在社会生活的表层 ,是社会变迁的指示器。建国初期是中国从传统社会向现代化社会过渡最为剧烈的时期 ,这一时期的我国婚姻制度改革体现了由家庭本位到个人本位的过渡 ,婚姻制度改革对普通民众的生活和社会发展产生了极大的影响     

日本国家赔偿特别领域要论

国会立法的内容被法院认定违反宪法时 ,属于国家赔偿法上的违法 ;立法不作为时 ,法院承认国会有广泛的立法裁量权 ,但也认为存在违法性不作为的情形。因行政权限不行使发生损害时 ,成立国家的赔偿责任 ,但受到国民法益的性质、违反的义务的性质、注意义务的基准等因素的影响。关于非权力作用 ,理论与判例均未形成一致认识 ,但在学校事故事件、行政指导及信息提供等方面 ,已有适用国家赔偿法的倾向。     

国家所有权法学诱析

所有权是私法上的概念,而国家所有权兼有公法及私法上的特性,这使得研究国家所有权变得复杂。文章以国家所有权概念为切入点,分析国家所有权的主体、客体、内容、行使及国家所有权保护等相关内容,旨在丰富我国国家所有权理论,以期有益于我国今后的物权立法和国有资产管理体制改革之实践。     

马克思与诺思：制度变迁中国家理论的作用比较

马克思与诺思在制度变迁理论中对于国家作用有共识也有分歧。将马克思与诺思的国家理论运用到委托代理理论模型中去,通过这个模型,分析他们之间的差异,总结出马克思与诺思的国家理论的四点不同。把马克思与诺思的国家理论进行了初步综合,可以为我国的改革开放事业提出几点政策建议。     

Making War on Terror? Global Lessons from Northern Ireland

In place of the simple modelling employed in anti-terrorist legal discourse, this article posits an interactive model of the relationship between the state and violent political actors, exploring law's role in both the repression and mobilisation of challengers. Drawing on social movement theory, it hypothesises a process of 'legally implicated mobilisation' which takes account both of law's presence and its partial absence in 'legal grey zones' during violent conflict, and it suggests how law may impact upon key elements of the mobilisation process. The hypothesis is applied to qualitative data from Northern Ireland on violent challengers. The data point to the importance of 'messaging' about law in the state of exception, supporting claims that law can have a 'damping' effect on violent conflict. The relationship between repression and violence is partly symbiotic, and in the global 'war on terror,' prisoner-abuse may have a mobilising effect on violent challengers.     

论我国国家所有权立法及其模式选择——一种法和经济学分析的思路

根据我国物权立法和产权改革的实践 ,以及法和经济学的理论和方法 ,国家所有权在主体、客体、行使和立法模式选择几个方面都有其特性 ,在我国市场经济条件下的物权法及其相关所有权立法中存在着重要价值、地位和作用     

疾病状态中的贵族形象——先秦两汉文学的一个透视点

先秦两汉文学作品中出现的处于疾病状态的贵族形象,有理智型与迷狂型、反思型与放任型、稳定型与多变型、刚愎自用型和委运乘化型的差异。具体到每位贵族成员,有时又往往兼有多种属性,显示出生命意识的复杂性和人物的多重性格。制约贵族成员疾病状态的有本身的生理因素,也有心理因素,还有外界的影响。