Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance

The use of indicators is a prominent feature of contemporary global governance. Indicators are used to compare and rank states for purposes as varied as deciding how to allocate foreign aid or investment and determining whether states have complied with their treaty obligations. This article defines the concept of an indicator, analyzes distinctive features of indicators as technologies of governance, and identifies various ways in which the use of indicators has the potential to alter the topology and dynamics of global governance. Particular attention is paid to how indicators can affect processes of standard setting, decisionmaking, and contestation in global governance. The World Bank Doing Business indicators and the United Nations Human Development Index are analyzed as case studies.     

A Century of Green Lessons: The Contribution of Nature Conservation Regimes to Global Governance

This paper reviews the lessons learned over the past 100 years in international management and conservation of the Earth's natural heritage and biological resources (fauna and flora), in the face of growing threats of degradation and extinction. The focus is on the effectiveness of intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions – in terms of agenda-setting, regime formation, implementation and compliance, and reactions to non-compliance. Among specific case histories analysed are the ivory trade ban, the whaling moratorium, and attempts at establishing an international forest regime. Innovative governance features highlighted in the field of global living resource management include active NGO participation, the use of selective economic incentives and disincentives (e.g. multilateral or bilateral trade sanctions), and a number of judicial enforcement remedies for both species-based and area-based conservation agreements. The paper concludes by assessing the prospects of transition from the paradigm of 'permanent sovereignty over natural resources' towards new concepts of public trusteeship and stewardship.     

Legislating for a Pandemic: Exposing the Stateless State

Initially the subject of widespread consensus, legislative and policy responses to COVID-19 are increasingly provoking predictable reactions. Right and left are united by concern that essential freedoms are being eroded by a state utilizing the opportunity of the pandemic to make a power grab. Focused on the Coronavirus Act 2020, this article takes a more cautious approach, suggesting that the law should be understood not as the product of a hierarchical state but as a demonstration of the ‘statelessness’ of the contemporary state. It examines the Act with particular focus on open justice, adult social care, and Business Improvement Districts. Reading this unique piece of legislation through the lens of the stateless state reveals the complexities, ambiguities, and contestations within contemporary policy making. Dismissing the Act as unnecessarily authoritarian is an insufficiently nuanced response; furthermore, this exploration of the law allows us to develop and complicate scholarship on the stateless state.     

从善秩到善治:乡村治理有效的法治逻辑

全面推进乡村振兴,治理有效是基础,而治理有效需要建立在良好的治理秩序基础之上.建构基于法治的乡村治理秩序,是从善秩到善治的关键,其取决于村内部治理秩序和村外部治理秩序的良性运转、协调与平衡.逻辑框架在于:村内部层面,村民依法自治、依法用权维权;村外部层面,政府依法行政,推进治理法治化;协调与平衡层面,良法善治、缘法而治...     

Exposing the conditions of precarity: compounding victimization and marginalized young people

Events of victimization that upend young lives and expose them to conditions of precarity are examined. Drawing on Judith Butler’s recent reflections on precarity, this article contributes to the extant critical victimology literature by linking precarity to selfhood and narrative. Narrative analysis is used to analyze two young people – Beatrice and Randall – who experienced sexual victimization and a number of subsequent victimizations at the hands of corporate and state organizations. To account for these subsequent persecutions, the concept of compounding victimization to expose the link between successive victimization that intensifies the experience of precarity.     

从社区治理到公民治理——中国城市社区治理的应然逻辑

本文界定了公民治理的核心概念,以治理理论、多中心治理理论、公民自治理论等为基础,用六个分析指标分析了当前中国社区治理的情况,提出了公民治理的分析框架,得出了只要能够克服一些局限性,中国社区治理的发展趋向就是公民治理模式的结论。     

On the Need to Study Processes of Taking Minutes from Case Hearings: Contribution to and Call for Future Research

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique - This paper’s aim is to promote greater interest in courtroom practices of...     

论行政法上的治理责任

随着政府管理向公共治理的转型,传统由行政机关担负的管理责任也开始向多元主体共同承担的治理责任转型,治理责任对行政法治具有重要意义。治理责任是涵盖所有治理主体和整个治理过程的责任,既指向政府责任,又指向扮演公共治理角色的其他主体所应当负有的责任;既包含治理主体应当担负的事后责任,又包含保证治理主体负责的一系列制度工具。治理责任的框架可以从责任承担主体、责任对象、责任承担标准、须负责的事项、程序性要求以及责任产生的结果六个方面展开。     

从经济增长驱动到法治指标驱动——中国地方法治动力机制研究

地方法治是中国法治体系的重要组成部分。地方法治发展的不同阶段,因其动力机制不同而呈现不同特点。在地方法治建设初期,法治被视作为经济建设保驾护航的工具,地方法治呈现出制度创新乃至体制突破的特点。随着国家治理目标转型升级,法治本身的价值得以凸显,原有的动力机制正在被将地方法治建设成效作为评价考核指标的法治指标动力机制所取代,法治的自主性日益增强。但无论是经济增长型还是法治指标型动力机制,均为政府主导、政绩导向,其持续性和长期效果堪忧。地方法治建设的未来发展,宜充分发挥社会公众的主体作用,培育开放协作型新动力机制。