Symposium comment: On the new politics of public policy

The process is not the problem, the problem is the problem. Rudolph Penner (1984). …We argue the superiority of the outcome from the process, not of the process from the outcome. The constancy of the economist's objection to this conclusion when applied to governmental rather than market decisions simply often reflects the fact that, while some economists are not disturbed that consumer preferences lead to allocation policies other than best respond to their own tastes, when political preferences lead to governmental policies not consistent with his informed and considered preferences, they are tempted to attribute irrationality to government.     

整体发展:马克思主义社会发展理论的要义

社会的整体发展思想是马克思主义社会发展理论的核心。马克思立足于人类社会是一个在实践中不断生成的有机整体,揭示了人类社会的基本结构、人类社会发展的基本规律以及人类社会存在和发展的基本条件。贯彻科学发展观,构建社会主义和谐社会,必须以马克思主义关于社会整体发展的思想为指导,自觉摆脱“经济决定论”和传统发展观的束缚。     

集体土地所有权立法的妥当性分析

物权法草案维持了农村土地集体所有权,这是立法者斟酌历史和现实的妥当选择。第一次规定了该权利行使的意思机关,完善了集体土地所有权制度。但草案仍然沿用现行法规定集体土地的三种所有权类型、规定集体经济组织为集体土地所有权行使的代表、不规定权利行使的监督组织,是不妥当的。应该取消乡(镇)、村民小组集体土地所有权,统一为村集体所有。集体经济组织在现实中和立法上都非常混乱,不适宜作为集体土地所有权行使代表。     

物上瑕疵担保责任、履行障碍法与缔约过失责任

物的瑕疵担保制度是否被规定在《合同法》中,是一个有争议的问题,瑕疵担保制度在本质上是一种不完全履行的类型,但其具有独立的制度价值,所以在德国民法典中成为与履行障碍法并列的制度,即使在德国债法改革后也是如此。瑕疵担保制度与不完全履行、缔约上过失等制度,在调整合同后义务以及合同前义务上,存在竞合关系,如何确定它们之间的界限,端赖于具体的价值衡量,基于瑕疵担保制度独有的对买卖双方利益的重新衡量,瑕疵担保制度的调整领域呈现扩张趋势。     

Fatal accidents on glaciers: forensic, criminological, and glaciological conclusions

The rare event of a corpse immersed in glacier ice becoming exposed on a glacier surface is closely connected with the glaciological conditions at the scene and the site of the accident. Provided that the time since death is known, certain questions relative to the circumstances of a mountain accident can only be answered by considering glaciological aspects. How the scene of an accident can be reconstructed by inference from the site of discovery is discussed by means of three exemplary cases that occurred on Tyrolean glaciers (Austria) during the past 40 years: (1) Two corpses were discovered close above the equilibrium line in the accumulation area after 25 years. The two victims had fallen down a rock face after the breaking off of a cornice and had come to rest in the uppermost part of the accumulation area. (2) A victim was discovered in the lower ablation area 8 years after falling down a crevasse in the middle part of the ablation area. (3) A female alpinist was discovered at the very end of the glacier after 29 years; it was concluded that the accident must have happened in the accumulation area.     

规范构成要件要素与明确性原则关系之辨正

在规范构成要件要素与明确性原则关系的探讨中,传统刑法理论从明确性原则角度审视规范构成要件要素,往往自陷困惑。如果从规范构成要件要素本身存在的原则基础出发,审视其与明确性原则之间的关系或许是一个很好的观察视角。     

在比较借鉴中探索执政规律的几个问题

政党执政有一般规律和特殊规律,执政规律是政党执政的共性、一般性,我们往往强调其特殊性而忽视一般性,甚至把二者对立起来。我们要学习、借鉴国外政党治国理政的经验,但又不能照搬西方政治模式,反对照搬既要反对全盘照搬,也要反对实用主义的照搬,其根本原因是国情不同。任何一种能够有效巩固执政基础、维护执政地位的模式,背后总有一定的规律性的东西作支撑,我们要善于识别各种不同的模式,研究其背后的执政规律。     

两种城市研究范式比较——城市人类生态学与城市生态学

城市人类生态学借鉴生态学观念和方法,研究城市人与空间的关系,揭示了城市布局变化的规律和动力;城市生态学运用生态系统的思想方法,研究城市自然系统、经济系统和社会系统的协调发展。两种理论范式研究对象同中有异,研究方法上的借用与应用有别,研究中心问题与研究取向均有不同。比较两种范式对更全面深入地研究城市有重要意义。     

US Patent and Trademark Office refuses registration of flavour trade mark

In a case of first impression, the Trademark Trial and AppealBoard of the US Patent and Trademark Office has held that theflavour orange is not registrable for use with quick-dissolvingantidepressant tablets and pills.