Exploring the Effects of North–South and South–South Research Collaboration in Emerging Economies,the Colombian Case

International research collaboration (IRC) is associated with both positive and negative effects on the performance of research in emerging economies. While some authors claim that North–South collaborations improve scientific quality and visibility for Southern countries, others claim that it may entail the reorientation of research to comply with Northern agendas. South–South collaborations are thought to increase the focus on local affairs, therefore leading to a relatively small number of scientific international publications appearing in “high quality” journals. Research on the impact of IRC beyond publications in international journals has been neglected despite the importance of other products in knowledge creation. This research uses a broad range of scientific outputs to empirically assess such assumptions and explore the outcomes of IRC in Colombia. Results from multivariate regressions and nonparametric analyses show that, contrary to common assumptions, Colombian research teams collaborating with partners from the global South report higher scientific production, while those collaborating with Northern countries seem to contribute to local knowledge the most.     

积极参与全球治理 推动人类命运共同体的建构——深入学习十九届四中全会精神

积极参与全球治理,是新时代中国特色国际统战的必然要求。人类命运共同体的建构与共产主义的实现具有本质上的共同性。中国积极参与全球治理,这不仅有助于实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦,还能够增强发展中国家参与国际事务的信心,有利于推动国际秩序良性发展和国际机制的完善。在中国共产党的领导下,中国充分发挥大国外交特色,利用主场外交和多边外交等方式,在传统领域和新兴领域积极参与全球治理,承担大国责任,不断提升国际影响力和话语权,积极推进人类命运共同体的建构,为维护世界的和平与发展贡献中国力量。     

商业贿赂及其治理的经济分析

本文以法律经济学分析方法,分别从商业贿赂的涵义、存在的根源、社会危害、治理对策角度进行了分析,指出商业贿赂的根源在于产权问题和委托代理问题,并基于此,对如何治理商业贿赂提出了相关的制度建议。①     

《劳动合同法》实施后企业用工成本的增量分析与应对措施

《劳动合同法》的实施,给人们普遍感觉是:企业用工成本急剧增加,大大削弱了企业的国际竞争力,有人甚至将其看作是压垮企业的最后一根稻草。事实上,通过对《劳动合同法》实施后企业用工成本增量来源和大小分析发现,《劳动合同法》对守法企业所增加的具体的、显性的用工成本是非常有限的,而不守法企业中所增加的用工成本也不超过企业总成本的2%,不会给企业带来太大的压力。为此,呼吁企业必须合法经营,及时调整人力资源管理战略,以提升企业国际竞争力。     

胡锦涛建设社会主义新农村主要思想探析

在新世纪新阶段,以胡锦涛为代表的中国共产党人总结新中国成立以来的经验教训,针对新情况新问题.对我国"三农"问题尤其是社会主义新农村建设问题进行了全面、深入的思考和阐述,提出了"三农"问题是全党工作重中之重的战略定位、统筹城乡发展的新方略、"两个趋向"的新论断、新农村建设的目标任务、新农村建设的出发点和关键环节等重要思想,形成了一个独具特色的建设社会主义新农村的思想体系.     

修改与完善《农业法》若干法律制度的思考

基于现阶段国家保护、支持农业的理念及产业政策的确立和现行<农业法>指导思想、体例结构与重要制度设计上的缺陷,借鉴世界其他国家的立法经验与并结合我国国情,分别对现行<农业法>中的农业投入、农业补贴、农村金融、政策性农业保险等法律制度的完善或重构提出相应的立法建议.     

公共均衡:政府与民众关系新探——公共选择理论与现代政府的再思考

“公共均衡”的提出是为了切实有效地提高现代政府的行政效率,它运用均衡分析方法研究政府行政活动,以经济学的一般均衡概念和公共选择理论为基础,强调保证行政活动内在有效持久的动力应来自行政组织及人员的内在合法利益追求——自利主义而非利他主义。只有在理论上承认行政组织利益的现实存在,才能解决行政动力问题,而解决了动力问题才能真正解决行政效率问题,从根本上确保行政活动的长久高效。行政管理活动需沿着均衡——兼顾政府和民众两方面的轨道,通过利益机制的协调最终实现双赢。     

Environmental Tax,Polluting Plants’ Strategies and Effectiveness: Evidence from China

Although environmental taxes have become a popular policy tool, their effectiveness for pollution control and impact on the compliance strategies of agents remains questionable. This research uses a quasi‐experimental design to examine the effectiveness of the Pay for Permit policy, an environmental tax that has been imposed on water pollution emissions in Lake Tai Basin, Jiangsu, China, since 2009. A plant‐level panel dataset from 2007 to 2010 is used for both difference‐in‐differences and difference‐in‐difference‐in‐differences analyses to compare the pollution discharge, pollution abatement, and pollution generation of policy participants and control groups. The results indicate that treated plants reduce their emissions by about 40 percent after two years of the policy implementation. Thus, the policy generated approximately a 7 percent decrease in the industrial chemical oxygen demand emission in the entire Lake Tai Basin based on the emission level of 2007. Pollution is primarily reduced via end‐of‐pipe abatement instead of cleaner production. Our results show the effectiveness of environmental taxes in controlling industrial pollution, and indicate that the tax may not motivate the adoption of innovative techniques in the short term.     

Government Communication Effectiveness and Satisfaction with Police Performance: A Large‐Scale Survey Study

For the last two decades, performance management theories and practices have focused on outcome‐oriented management but have paid little attention to the role of public communication. Using multiple large data sets from Kansas City, Missouri, for 2009–14, this research suggests that the perceived effectiveness of public communication has a more substantial impact on public satisfaction with police protection and crime prevention than neighborhood crime rates and broken windows factors and that perceived effectiveness moderates the negative impact of crime rates. After controlling for residents’ demographic characteristics, the authors find that the perceived effectiveness of communication is associated with public satisfaction with the content and quality of the city website and the government television channel. The implications for public safety management and police–citizen relations as well as directions for future research on public communication strategies and public performance management are presented.