Response to Herman and Chomsky

Under what conditions can political elites influence elections to favor their preferred policy outcomes by strategically crafting the language printed on the ballot? Drawing on psychological and political theories of voter cognition, we design a survey experiment to assess the degree to which ballot text can influence voter behavior in direct democracy elections and identify factors that may moderate such effects. We show that the language used to describe a ballot measure does indeed have the potential to affect election outcomes, including measures dealing with contentious social issues affecting individual rights. We also find, however, that exposing individuals to basic campaign information—in our case, endorsements from prominent interest groups—greatly attenuates the framing effects of ballot text. Our results suggest that the extent to which ballot text matters depends on the vibrancy of the campaign environment and other information available to voters.     

完善未成年人刑事司法制度的思考

完善未成年人刑事司法制度必须明确未成年人刑事司法制度与普通刑事司法制度的共同点和差异点，变司法“超越”立法为通过立法引导和规范未成年人刑事司法工作，力求使未成年人刑事司法制度成为一个科学、完备的法律制度体系，并有选择地借鉴国外未成年人刑事司法制度中科学、合理的理念、经验。     

Fear and Loathing in California: Contextual Threat and Political Sophistication Among Latino Voters

Environments having candidates or policies deemed threatening to an individual or group have previously been found to trigger feelings of anxiety that in turn motivate people to closely monitor political affairs. Racially charged ballot propositions, and the strong feelings they evoked, made California in the mid-1990s just such an environment for Latino citizens—resulting, we believe, in higher levels of political information. Using the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute's 1997 postelection survey of Hispanic citizens, we compare levels of political knowledge between naturalized and native-born Latino citizens in California and similarly situated Latino citizens in Texas. We find that, as a result of these highly publicized and controversial initiatives, Latino immigrants in California (a) are more likely than native-born Latinos and Latinos outside California to perceive racial issues as most important, and (b) manifest higher levels of political information than their fellow native-born Latinos and Latino citizens outside of California, controlling for other well-recognized predictors of political information levels.     

纯粹法学与纯粹法律——论原则性法典

纯粹法学是当今法学研究中的一种重要思潮,它坚持主张将国家实在法律之外的一切规范、道德伦理或价值因素排除出法学的研究范围——这也是其核心命题。那么,怎样评价纯粹法学的这一核心主张才较为恰切?这至少需要从以下五个方面进行分析:它的理论源流;它的纯粹工作本身;它的问题意识;它的理论限度以及它的哲学基础。     

休谟问题与自然法

自然法作为一个重要的法理学流派有着重要的和不可或缺的地位,虽然自近代以来就不断遭受实证法学者的责难,但要完全排除自然法的影响也在实践中证明了它的不可能性,实证法名家凯尔森、哈特在其著作中也不能完全做到这一点,比如哈特在他的《法律的概念》中公开地宣称要保留"最小限度的自然法"。具有认识论意义的"休谟问题"的提出使我们更深入地接触到自然法的核心,通过"休谟问题"这一线索,我们可以更清晰地认识自然法的历史变迁,因此,"休谟问题"是值得我们探索自然法理论的关键一环。     

浅析日常语言中的几种诡辩手法

在日常生活工作中 ,经常有人为自己的行为作一些似是而非的辩护 ,实际上是隐含着某种逻辑错误的诡辩。常见的诡辩术有偷换概念、偷换论题、捏造论据和无效推理     

加快民族地区旅游业发展的思考

贵州民族地区旅游资源丰富,但与全国和旅游发达省区水平相比,仍处于落后的位置,存在较大的差距.根据贵州省"十五"计划,努力把旅游业培育成为新的支柱产业的目标.针对目前贵州旅游业发展的现状和存在的差距,提出加快贵州旅游业发展的对策和建议.