村委会直选中贿选现象及其防范

我国村委会直选中出现的贿选行为,主要表现为乱许诺、请吃喝和送钱送物等,具有隐蔽性、功利性、阶段性、冒险性和蔓延性等特点。贿选行为的出现有主、客观方面的原因。防范和遏制贿选行为,要从建立村级选举的监督机制、正确界定贿选、加大对村官权力的制约和监督力度以及加强立法等方面进行努力。     

制约村民选举的因素分析——鄂西南山区少数民族T村的调查

新的<村委会组织法>的颁布,我国村民自治进入了规范化阶段.在我国贫困人口最集中的山区,村民选举却不尽人意.该文就鄂西某村村民选举的无序现象,来探讨这种现象背后的深层次原因,从而提出对策和建议.     

完善制度防治腐败

制度不完善是产生腐败的深层次原因.因此,反腐败要通过完善制度来防治.通过较高的薪水、透明的政务、有效的监督、严厉的法制来约束、遏制腐败.     

On the Nature of Tolerance: Dichotomous or Continuous?*

The purpose of this article is to reconsider the claim made recently by Mondak and Sanders that political tolerance ought to be thought to be a dichotomous rather than continuous variable. Using data from both Russia and the United States, I demonstrate that those Mondak and Sanders regard as uniquely tolerant are most likely no more than people who were given insufficient opportunity to express their intolerance. Even if such a phenomenon of “absolute tolerance” exists (all ideas expressed in all ways are to be tolerated), it is sufficiently rare that few practical implications are indicated for those doing empirical work on political tolerance and intolerance. * I appreciate the valuable comments of Jeffcry Mondak on an earlier version of this paper.     

中西管理人性假设的比较研究

人性假设是管理理论的前提。在管理思想史上,人性假设中国以性善论、性恶论和人性二重论为代表,西方以“经济人”假设、“社会人”假设、“自我实现人”假设和“复杂人”假设为代表。两者分别根植于特定的文化背景,并具有许多相似性。     

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Understanding Preferences for Authoritarian Political Systems

Why do some individuals prefer to be governed in an authoritarian political system? One intuitive answer is that citizens prefer authoritarian rule when the economy and society are in turmoil. These are common explanations for democratic backsliding, and the emergence and success of authoritarian leaders in the twentieth century. Which of these explanations better explains preferences for authoritarian rule? Both types of threat coincide in small samples and high-profile cases, creating inferential problems. I address this by using three waves of World Values Survey data to look at individual-level preferences for different forms of authoritarian government. Using multiple macroeconomic and societal indicators, I find that economic threats, especially increasing income inequality, better explain preferences for authoritarian government. I conclude with implications for understanding the emergence of support for authoritarianism in fledgling democracies.     

Robert Tollison and operationalizing public choice

In this tribute to Robert Tollison, I will outline his contributions to the development of public choice. I focus on Tollison’s work on rent-seeking, the political economy of reform, and the rules level of analysis in sports economics. Throughout his career, Tollison brilliantly figured out ways to take insights from price theory and public choice theory and operationalize them using multiple methods of empirical analysis, including historical interpretation and statistical testing.     

A Different Carbon Tax: The Sustainable Green Tariff

Two heated current political arguments focus on carbon taxes and tariffs. This essay will develop an argument for linking carbon emissions with tariffs, through a tax on goods entering a country based on the method of transport and distance traveled, rather than based on the country of origin or category of the product. The result would be to encourage more sustainable local production, to reduce currently externalized costs of carbon emissions, to generate new tax revenues to fund reductions in regressive social insurance taxes, and to provide benefits for those adversely affected by carbon emissions.