Justice Sensitivity and Cooperation Dynamics in Repeated Public Good Games

It is frequently observed that despite individual incentives to free ride, humans decide to cooperate with each other to increase social payoffs. In the current research, we address the effects of individual differences in justice sensitivity on cooperation. Using incentivized repeated public good games, we find that individual differences in justice sensitivity—the ease of perceiving, remembering, and reacting to injustice from the perspectives of an observer, beneficiary, or perpetrator, but not victim—substantially predicts cooperation in the absence of a punishment option. In contrast, when costly punishment is allowed for, cooperation becomes strategic as it also aims at avoiding subsequent punishment. If such a sanctioning mechanism is in place, justice sensitivity no longer predicts cooperation. The results regarding the degree of cooperation as reaction to initial non-cooperation of one’s counterparts highlight the role of justice-concerning personality traits for the sufficient provision of public goods, as sanctioning institutions are not always possible, effective, or suitable.     

Divide and conquer: the consolidation of Hafiz al-Assad's policy toward Lebanon – the early stages

This article examines the attitude of Syria toward Lebanon during the first years of Hafiz al-Assad's regime. Assad adhered to the policy of ‘divide and conquer’, in which Syria purposefully prevented any Lebanese figure from becoming too powerful in the political arena. The article will analyze two cases of prominent Lebanese leaders in which Syria applied this policy, President Suleiman Frangieh and the Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt. Both were close allays of Assad, but this fact did not prevent the latter from acting against his friends. The article's main claim is that by using this policy, Assad paved the way for Syrian intervention and increasing influence in the land of the cedars.     

我国银行业竞争推进制度研究

我国银行业的垄断问题主要并不是由于处于寡占地位的国有银行实施限制竞争行为造成的,而是国家干预、管制的结果。传统的反垄断执法和司法对这种管制下的垄断无能为力,只能被动地等待银行业主管部门的自我觉醒,或者象民间金融危机之类事件发生之后才意识到问题的存在。竞争推进是各国竞争主管部门的实务工作者在实践中探索出来的竞争执法之外的手段。通过竞争性评估、引入竞争和培育竞争文化等竞争推进制度,将促进我国银行业的有效竞争和金融资源的分配公平。     

Policy analysts' roles and value orientations: An empirical investigation using Q methodology

Several scholars have suggested that policy analysts and policy researchers can be classified as falling into one of a small number of ideal types. These ideal-type models are based largely on analysts' views of their roles in an organization and their value orientations, including their relationships with clients, their perceptions of their responsibility to the public, and their acceptance of professional norms. To determine to what extent practicing policy analysts and researchers resemble the ideal types, we administered Q-sorts to 38 analysts and researchers in three states. In our analysis of the Q-sorts, we identified five types. Also, we found that the analysts and researchers hold in common many views of analytic roles and values.     

构建社会主义和谐社会思想探源和现实依据

社会主义和谐社会是根据当代中国现实而产生的一种社会理想诉求,它不是子虚乌有的乌托邦梦想。文章具体考察了和谐社会的思想渊源,着重阐明了中国古代儒家的社会和谐思想及对构建社会主义和谐社会的意义;深刻阐释了马克思、恩格斯关于"人类同自然的和解以及人类本身的和解"的社会和谐思想的理论基础;全面分析了我们党针对我国现阶段各种不和谐现象、各种社会失衡甚至社会冲突而提出的构建社会主义和谐社会的现实依据。     

试论新型工业化是生产力发展的内在规律

走新型工业化道路,是我党在总结了传统工业化道路的历史教训,借鉴发达国家现代化工业的成功经验,对世界信息科技发展趋势进行前瞻性分析的基础上,为早日实现全面小康社会而选择的一条特殊发展之路。它的特殊之处体现在:中国的现实国情与生产力发展的内在规律的统一,实现工业化与信息化的双重任务的统一,知识经济与工业经济两种生产力形态的相互嫁接与融合。无论在内涵上还是外延上,都是对传统工业化道路的突破、创新与发展。一、生产力发展的内在规律人类社会的经济发展史就是生产力自身不断解放与发展的历史。生产力的发展始终沿着科技进步…     

略论法律漏洞及其补充

法律漏洞有多种类型,其存在有多方面的原因,具有客观性和必然性。作为正义和公理化身的法律,对其漏洞补充也是必然和必需的。对法律漏洞的补充可以从三个层级上溯:法律规范、法律原则直到法的价值目标。