城镇化战略与我国城乡经济社会的协调发展

世界工业化和城镇化发展的基本规律及我国的客观现实决定了推进城镇化战略是实现我国城乡经济社会发展的重要战略举措.走大中小城市和小城镇协调发展的城镇化道路,是一条符合我国国情的中国特色的城镇化道路.加快我国的城镇化进关键是要在顺应城市化发展规律的基础上作出相应的制度安排和政策选择.     

论实施情报信息主导警务战略

情报信息主导警务是当今国际、国内警务发展的主流和趋势,是公安机关应对急剧变化和日益严峻的社会治安形势的需要,也是各项警务改革成功与否的关键.当前,公安机关在情报信息工作中还存在着认识不到位、应用不深入、流转无序、管理滞后等问题.为此,一要树立科学的情报信息观,正确认识情报信息在公安警务发展战略中的重要意义和作用;二要推进情报信息工作体制改革,探索建立符合地方实际的情报信息工作模式;三要强化情报信息功能性地位,提高情报信息主导警务资源配置的能力;四要深化情报信息应用,提高情报信息主导打防控工作的水平;五要加强情报信息保障体系建设,确保提供高质量的情报信息产品和服务.     

在确保铁路运输安全中体现共产党员先进性

铁路作为大众化交通工具,每天输送300多万旅客,运输安全与广大人民群众的生命财产安全紧密相关;铁路作为国民经济的大动脉,全路日均装车10万辆以上,运输安全与各行各业的发展和构建和谐社会紧密相关。因此,确保运输安全,铁路使命极其重大,责任重于泰山。作为铁路运输企业的共产党人保持先进性,就要紧密结合铁路工作的实际,具备五种意识,在确保铁路运输安全中充分发挥先锋模范作用,为推进铁路跨越式发展提供保证。要具有坚定的政治意识具有政治意识,形成坚定的理想信念,是共产党人保持先进性,做好一切工作的精神动力。铁路共产党人既要胸怀共…     

On the Nature of Tolerance: Dichotomous or Continuous?*

The purpose of this article is to reconsider the claim made recently by Mondak and Sanders that political tolerance ought to be thought to be a dichotomous rather than continuous variable. Using data from both Russia and the United States, I demonstrate that those Mondak and Sanders regard as uniquely tolerant are most likely no more than people who were given insufficient opportunity to express their intolerance. Even if such a phenomenon of “absolute tolerance” exists (all ideas expressed in all ways are to be tolerated), it is sufficiently rare that few practical implications are indicated for those doing empirical work on political tolerance and intolerance. * I appreciate the valuable comments of Jeffcry Mondak on an earlier version of this paper.     

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Understanding Preferences for Authoritarian Political Systems

Why do some individuals prefer to be governed in an authoritarian political system? One intuitive answer is that citizens prefer authoritarian rule when the economy and society are in turmoil. These are common explanations for democratic backsliding, and the emergence and success of authoritarian leaders in the twentieth century. Which of these explanations better explains preferences for authoritarian rule? Both types of threat coincide in small samples and high-profile cases, creating inferential problems. I address this by using three waves of World Values Survey data to look at individual-level preferences for different forms of authoritarian government. Using multiple macroeconomic and societal indicators, I find that economic threats, especially increasing income inequality, better explain preferences for authoritarian government. I conclude with implications for understanding the emergence of support for authoritarianism in fledgling democracies.     

Robert Tollison and operationalizing public choice

In this tribute to Robert Tollison, I will outline his contributions to the development of public choice. I focus on Tollison’s work on rent-seeking, the political economy of reform, and the rules level of analysis in sports economics. Throughout his career, Tollison brilliantly figured out ways to take insights from price theory and public choice theory and operationalize them using multiple methods of empirical analysis, including historical interpretation and statistical testing.     

A Different Carbon Tax: The Sustainable Green Tariff

Two heated current political arguments focus on carbon taxes and tariffs. This essay will develop an argument for linking carbon emissions with tariffs, through a tax on goods entering a country based on the method of transport and distance traveled, rather than based on the country of origin or category of the product. The result would be to encourage more sustainable local production, to reduce currently externalized costs of carbon emissions, to generate new tax revenues to fund reductions in regressive social insurance taxes, and to provide benefits for those adversely affected by carbon emissions.     

Appeal rate and caseload: evidence from civil litigation in Korea

Courts of modern democratic societies have generally implemented appeal procedures to correct potential errors in ruling. However, considering the time and effort that both litigants spend, availability of an appeal cannot be better than reaching the correct judgment in the original case. This difficulty raises the policy issue of how to reduce the rate of appeals and improve welfare of litigants. In this paper, we assert that lower caseloads allow judges to expend more time and effort on each case, contributing to lower appeal rates. Analysis of court-level data from Korea corroborates our inference.