The importance of industry compliance in improving advertising self‐regulatory processes

As the most visible element of the marketing communications mix, advertising has had its critics and, given the choice, developed countries usually select a self‐regulatory approach to deal with unacceptable advertising. The recent breakdown of one of the world's longest established advertising self‐regulatory programmes in Australia has reopened the 20‐year old debate that has taken place in the leading academic and business journals concerned with enhancing understanding of such regulatory systems. This paper focuses on the activity of code enforcement in improving the effectiveness of advertising self‐regulatory frameworks. The key findings of an Australian study, where its scheme has recently failed, are presented and discussed in this context and a key concept is developed. Copyright © 2003 Henry Stewart Publications     

论信用证的严格相符

信用证(Letter of Credit简称L/C)是现在商业发展需要而非法律制度的产物,信用证平衡了买卖双方的风险负担而成为最受欢迎的一种支付方式,在国际支付中起到了不能取代的作用.严格相符(strict compliance)是信用证法律关系中一项独特的基本原则.在司法实践和商业实践中具有极高的指导意义.本文将结合案例从实质相符和程序相符两个方面讨论严格相符的条件.     

未成年犯社区矫正分析

社区矫正在预防和控制未成年人犯罪方面具有十分重要的地位和作用,符合未成年犯的心理特征,有利于克服监禁刑的弊端,有利于和发达国家的刑罚模式接轨。我国社会主义的刑事政策、社会主义的法律体系以及日趋完善的社区和健全的司法行政体系资源为未成年犯罪人适用社区矫正提供了现实可能性。针对我国未成年犯社区矫正工作中存在的问题,笔者认为,更新行刑观念、对社区矫正进行科学定位、建立专门的社区矫正机构、配备专业的矫正人员、建立适合未成年人特点的社区矫正项目以及建立未成年犯社区矫正制度的评估体系是对未成年犯社区矫正制度完善的重要举措。     

论民事抗诉审查的中心

对法院原审裁判和案卷进行审查是检察机关民事抗诉审查的中心,这是有其法理学基础的,也是解决目前抗诉审查中各种难题的最有效手段。在实践中,其具体体现为:以书面审查原审裁判和案卷为基础,审查依案卷中的材料可否得出裁判的结论,并以此决定对当事人提供证据材料的审查,决定是否自行调查,最终决定是否抗诉。对此,立法上应明确赋予检察机关调卷权,以保证抗诉监督目的的实现。     

The legal aspects of corporate computer usage policies

In this paper we examine the legal aspects of corporate computer usage policies including their creation, management, and their relevance to corporate computer forensic investigations. Misuse of corporate computing facilities cannot only lead to a reduction in employee productivity and network bandwidth, but can also increase the risk of infection of such facilities by computer viruses and other malicious code. Moreover, it may lead to the risk of liability and legal action.     

电子政务：政府创新的有效模式

电子政务是实现政府创新的一种有效探索。政府通过创新 ,可以更快地实现职能转变 ,提高工作效率 ,打破传统的时间、空间和部门分隔的制约 ,使各级政府的各项工作更加严密 ,服务更加便捷 ,从而把政府建设成廉洁、勤政、务实、高效的政府     

“县权公开”面临的困境及解决思路

“县权公开”对于加强党的执政能力，巩固党的执政基础，推动党内民主发展和防治县权腐败具有非常重要的价值。但当前“县权公开”改革仍然面临着困境，如怎么追究违犯规定后的责任、如何处理权威与公开的关系等。造成上述困境的原因是多方面的，既有体制制度方面的原因，也有领导干部个人方面的原因。要真正实现“县权公开”，还需要相关部门在建立健全权力运行制度、改革完善监督制度、规范约束县委书记权力、提高县级领导干部思想认识等方面下工夫。     

隐性动态贫困的识别与治理——兼论反向国债作为扶贫济困新思路的可行性

“隐性动态贫困”的识别与治理是一个世界性难题,也是我国扶贫济困工作未来所面对的主要挑战。传统治理工具主要应对“绝对贫困状态-相对贫困状态”路径及存在可识别的贫困表征的相对贫困问题,较难对“非贫困状态-相对贫困状态”路径的相对贫困问题进行有效的识别与应对。以“隐性动态贫困”问题的有效识别与应对为目标,国家应推出反向国债作为一种新的扶贫济困的治理工具,以作为传统扶贫济困治理工具的补充,为相对贫困中的“隐性动态贫困”问题的识别与治理提供新思路。     

嵌入式监督:探索权力监督有效实现新模式

纪检监察派驻监督是党和国家监督体系的重要组成部分,也是实现国家治理现代化的必要环节。在监督范式转换、党纪法规调适、反腐倡廉要求和监督探索实践的共同驱动下,部分地区将嵌入性理念、技术和制度引入权力监督领域,创新形成了“党的领导、权力制约、过程监督、信息沟通和制度规范”的嵌入式监督模式。这一模式借助理念嵌入、组织嵌入、技术嵌入和制度嵌入系统建构路径,形成了“权威性、精准化、全程性、常态化和制度化”的权力监督机制,整体推进监督制度优势转化为治理效能。嵌入式监督的实践深化还存在自主性、适应性和融入性困境。纪检监察派驻机构还须提升角色定位能力、目标执行能力和融合监督能力,以此实现权力监督长效化与国家治理现代化。     

French engagement versus British commitment. Was it interlingual miscommunication or political manipulation?

ABSTRACT

The efforts undertaken to establish the contemporary European Union started many years earlier. The history of establishing a pan-European organization is interesting not only for historians and economists but also translators and linguists as it is the history of interlingual communication (negotiations and agreements). One such negotiation was allegedly ineffective due to the difference in understanding the French term engagement and its English equivalent employed by translators and interpreters, that is to say the English term commitment. The authors aim at presenting the political background of negotiations and the social semiotic analysis of the terms in question in order to provoke the reader to find the answer to the question whether the negotiation was broken due to interlingual miscommunication resulting from erroneously chosen equivalent or it was destined to failure from the very beginning due to socio-political and economic interests of negotiating parties. In order to achieve that goal, the authors have analysed notes exchanged between the governments of France and Great Britain in course of negotiation. The history of negotiation and the linguistic analysis are combined to illustrate the complexity of meaning construction and the semiotic implications of the contextual dependence of meanings of terms and their dynamic evolution in time and space.