Note on land reform in Bangladesh: The efficacy of ceilings

In this note, new data concerning the agrarian structure of Bangladesh are employed to test the efficacy of ceilings on the size of landholdings as a means of making land available to the landless and the near landless. The data confirm that the numbers of potential claimants for land far exceeds the potential supply, even if ceilings on holdings were lowered from 100 standard bighas (331/3 acres) to 25 standard bighas (81/3 acres).     

健身气功在海外华侨华人群体中的推广现状分析

文章通过对华侨华人居住相对集中的10个国家和地区的健身气功习练者进行问卷调查和访谈,了解到海外华侨华人习练者首次接触健身气功、习练健身气功及其费用投入等情况,并据此提出参考性的推广建议:培养专业师资队伍;设立固定练习场地和成立俱乐部;开展各种学习、展示、比赛活动,加强宣传;重视健身气功相关书籍和资料的翻译推介工作;研究海外华侨华人心理,提高宣传推广的针对性和效率等等,以期推动健身气功在海外的进一步发展,弘扬中华民族优秀传统体育文化。     

“三型”马克思主义执政党:开拓党的建设新境界

党的十八大报告中首次提出"建设学习型、服务型、创新型的马克思主义执政党",而且将这个党的建设总目标写入了新修改的党章。从党的建设总目标的历史探索轨迹和党的建设总布局的形成发展轨迹看,从对执政党建设的理论意义和现实意义看,要把中国共产党建设成为学习型、服务型、创新型的马克思主义执政党确实是一项全新的重大课题。"学习型、服务型、创新型"既是一个系统的价值整体,同时,在这个系统中,又必须凸显全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨,紧紧围绕改进服务方式、提高服务质量来加强学习、开拓创新,惟其如此,才能真正体现马克思主义执政党作为实现、维护和发展人民群众利益的工具的本质。     

Marxist scholarship on Thailand the work of E. Thadeus flood (1932–1977)

Abstract

Thadeus Flood died of cancer on December 11, 1977. The last ten years of his life were devoted to promoting revolutionary change and resisting American imperialism in Thailand. His life and work reveal the contradictions of American education and imperialist policy. This is not only because of what he wrote about, but because his life and scholarship transcended his conservative and “apolitical” education, moving him from academic scholarship to political commitment, forcing him beyond the functions within the university for which he had been intended. American imperialism in Southeast Asia gave him a political awareness which his education had consistently denied him. In this brief article I would like to indicate the important lessons which Asian scholars and others can learn from his transformation, and to attempt to assess his seminal contribution to the study of Thailand. I seek to draw, from his life and work, political lessons which can further our common struggles.     

秉承卓越:美国研究型大学跨学科人才培养的特点、趋势及启示

美国研究型大学在跨学科人才培养上秉承卓越取向,在培养规模与培养质量上均居世界前列.从特点来看,跨学科人才培养贯穿本硕博三个层次、与创业教育紧密结合,采用国际化培养路径;从趋势来看,跨学科组织在研究型大学趋于中心化、跨学科教育受到政府与大学科研的双重驱动、愈发重视学生需求与遵循一定的就业取向,以及通过进一步实践去巩固其在高等教育系统内的引领地位.美国的经验对我国研究型大学跨学科人才培养模式变革与机制创新具有重要启示.     

Prosecutor Risk,Maturation, and Wrongful Conviction Practice

In this article we rethink the connection between prosecutorial experience and conviction psychology that undergirds much of the academic literature about wrongful convictions. The conviction psychology account of prosecutorial behavior asserts that prosecutorial susceptibility to cognitive biases deepens over time, thereby increasing the risk that prosecutors will become involved in wrongful convictions the longer they stay in the profession. Our interviews with more than 200 state prosecutors call into question the basis for this asserted correlation between prosecutorial experience and risk of misconduct. The prosecutors we met consistently reported that, all else equal, prosecutors tend to become more balanced, rather than more adversarial, over time. Hence, the prosecutors who present the greatest risk of producing a wrongful conviction are those who are either inexperienced or resistant to the normal maturation process. For this reason, we suggest that wrongful conviction researchers and database designers pay closer attention to the variables associated with prosecutorial experience and resistance that might affect the development of prosecutorial maturity and the consequent risk of wrongful convictions.     

高考改革背景下新建本科院校综合改革路径分析

党的十八届三中全会提出了深化中国教育的改革,高考改革和高校改革意味着中国教育的改革已经进入了攻坚阶段。尤其是高考改革,直接促使新建本科院校提速综合改革的进程。为此,应该在以下四个方面加快进程:办学定位由教学型到现代的教学—服务型;人才定性由技能型到现代的技能—素质型;专业定向由应用型到现代的应用—基础型,课程定制由实践型到现代的实践—通识型。     

证据认证模式刍议

证据的认证亦即对证据的证据能力和证明力进行审查判断,是人民法院查明案件事实、正确适用法律的前提。目前,立法上对证据的认证规则缺乏明确的规定,司法实践中对证据的认证模式也比较混乱。规范证据的认证模式,明确二步认证的证据认证模式无疑有利于提高案件的审判质量。