社会整合与人民法庭的功能定位

随着乡村社会转型,乡民与国家、家庭、传统规范之间的纽带早已松懈,个人对社会保有的团结情感和道德责任感随之淡薄,乡村社会的整合问题将越来越突出.人民法庭的司法运作在修复国家与乡民之间的关系,加强社会整合方面的功能越来越重要.虽然不少研究对人民法庭能动的、便民的司法运行模式持否定态度,但若立足于整体分析的方法与视角,从人民法庭对乡村社会整合的功能意义出发却可以发现,这其实是人民法庭的功能性必要条件.     

When school meets the Other: intercultural policies in the Basque inclusive school

ABSTRACT

Gatti, Irazuzta and Martinez address the intercultural public policies implemented in the education system of the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country (Spain). Focusing on the education system allows them to reconstruct the historicity of identity-alterity production in a region in which language has been central for the establishment of ethnic frontiers. More specifically, they examine the implementation of these policies in three pre-school and primary educational institutions in a multicultural neighbourhood of the city of Bilbao. They look at Euskara—the Basque language—as a key element of the us-them distinction. The various education models regarding language and the teaching in/of Euskara or Spanish pave the way for the specialization and spatialization of the schools analysed. ‘Integration’ policies are implemented in ethnically marked schools only, based on a rhetoric of interculturality that assumes that any ‘racial or ethnic discrimination’ can be overcome through knowledge of the Other. Moreover, the assessment of public policies through ‘interculturality figures and best practice’ developed to address the so-called ‘immigration issue’ promotes a protectionist intervention on behalf of the assumed social vulnerabilities of immigrant schoolchildren and their families, which are read as ‘problematic characteristics’. The article argues that, as a result of the approach based on the social conditions of immigrant children and their families in the Basque Country, the race issue evaporates.     

Is there a long‐run relationship between population growth and living standards? The case of India

This note examines the existence of a long‐run, cointegrating relationship between population and per capita GDP in India for 1950–93. Unit root tests show that per capita GDP is integrated of order one while population is integrated of order zero; further, estimation of the bi‐variate relationship using the cointegration procedure of Johansen shows that no long‐run relationship exists. Thus, population growth neither causes per capita income growth nor is caused by it. A corollary is that population growth neither stimulates per capita income growth nor detracts from it.     

Economic partnering with the poor: why local governments should work with community-based development organizations to promote economic development

Much of conventional economic development ends up as a transfer of wealth from the public sector to successful firms. Instead, local governments would be better off working to support the efforts of community-based development organizations to expand the economic pie for those most in need. Suggestions are made of ways to bring about equity development programs that would help those most in need rather than merely subsidizing established businesses.     

中美全球与亚太地区安全目标矛盾及其应对

无论是全球战略层面,还是亚太战略层面,中美安全目标都有许多交集之处,这决定中美有很大合作空间;但是,矛盾也是非常明显的,尤其是在亚太地区安全目标中,这决定中美战略竞争有很强的动力。随着中国崛起和中美实力差距的缩小,两国安全目标矛盾将更加突出,两国战略竞争的动力也随之增强。然而,防止双边关系走向恶性竞争进而引发中美之间的新冷战,既符合两国的根本利益,也有利于亚太地区乃至整个世界的安全、和平与发展。应对中美安全目标矛盾,关键在于摈弃冷战思维和传统权力政治思维。     

环境侵权的公共赔偿制度研究

环境侵权的公共赔偿制度是受害人获得有效救济的新途径.由于救济手段的局限和法律规定的缺陷,我国急需建立环境侵权公共赔偿制度.从环境侵权的现有救济制度入手,可以具体分析出民事救济制度和国家赔偿制度的局限性,因而公共赔偿制度在理论上可以得到支持；同时,为了使环境侵权公共赔偿制度能够具体实施,我们应该更加深入地研究和讨论该制度的构建.