Understanding Culture in Kentucky's Courtrooms: An Essential Tool for Management and Long‐Range Planning

Though the “old conventional wisdom” explained delay as the product of too few resources and staff, the “new conventional wisdom” posits court efficiency is largely due to the cultural makeup of the court. Adapting the Court Culture Assessment Instrument developed by Dr. Ostrom and colleagues at the National Center for State Courts, this research study examines judicial perceptions of culture in the Kentucky Court of Justice general and family circuit court. Results indicate circuit courts are predominantly autonomous but desire to be more structured (hierarchical). In addition, bivariate analyses showed a significant, but weak, inverse relationship exists between perceptions of a predominantly hierarchical culture orientation and the presence of delay. In other words, judges who perceived their circuit to be predominantly hierarchical in nature were less likely to perceive delay as a problem.     

邻避效应:公益性项目的补偿机制与公民参与

在公益性项目建设与运营中所出现的邻避效应,是追求公共利益最大化和政策成本最小化的政府在民主行政的条件下不可回避的决策困境。本文分析了邻避效应的经济性补偿和社会心理性补偿的关系,根据集体行动理论和邻避效应的特征,提出审慎运用公民参与来实现公益性项目外部效应的内部化。在中国国情条件下,公民参与的制度选择倾向采取法团主义的模式,文章结合上海市实践进行了实证分析。