Delegation of Broad National Alliance for Independence,Peace and Democracy of Japan Visits China

正At the invitation of the Chinese Association for International Understanding(CAFIU),the delegation of Broad National Alliance for Independence,Peace and Democracy of Japan headed by Yoshida Shin visited China from February 4 to 7.During the visit,CAFIU Vice President Liu Hongcai met with the delegation,speaking positively of the efforts     

Rehumanizing Birth and Death in America

THESIS: Despite spending more on medical care than any other country in the world, the United States still boasts some of the worst patient outcomes of any developed nation. This disparity is especially true of how Americans give birth and die.  These natural human transitions have become catastrophically expensive and leave patients and their families traumatized from unnecessary interventions. This article examines the costs and outcomes associated with the medicalization of birth and death and argues that alternatives exist that improve patient outcomes while lowering costs. Access to these alternatives will require changing current regulatory and reimbursement structures and providing trained support staff to help families navigate beginning- and end-of life decisions.     

Treaty Commitment as a Signaling Device: Explaining the Ratification of the International Covenant on Economic,Social, and Cultural Rights

This study investigates the determinants of the ratification of International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). To do so, it proposes an explanation that postulates that states employ treaty ratification as a device to signal their resolve to implement polices required by the treaty at issue in order to appease demanding domestic constituencies, predicting that states with lower compliance capacity tend to commit faster than states with higher compliance capacity. Applying this explanation to the ICESCR leads to two expectations. First, the larger government spending a proxy of high compliance capacity is hypothesized to delay the ratification process. Second, states with the unitary system are expected to ratify the ICESCR more promptly because the centralized power structure in unitary states significantly restricts the pursuit of the policy autonomy by minorities at local level that the right to self-determination entails. The Cox proportional hazard analysis lends support to both hypotheses.     

Research on the Affordable Housing Community: Review and Prospect

The construction of affordable housing is not only housing construction，but also community cultivation. The construction of affordable housing community is one of the key indicators to determine the effectiveness of the housing policy. Based on collecting related literature in CNKI, the researcher conducts a quantitative analysis of the research literature on affordable housing in China by using Bicomb2.0. The study has found that the quantity of research results is closely related to the development of the policy. The research focuses on the housing policy, financing and post management. Community research is marginalized in the research heat maps, and research disciplines are mostly human geography, management and so on. Then the researcher reviews the four core issues in the study of affordable housing community, such as the spatial location and community segregation of affordable housing, the satisfaction and influencing factors of housing community, the neighborhood interaction and social integration of affordable housing community and public service and community governance of security housing community. Finally, the paper provides proposals for future study.