The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts

Since the 1990s, the number of women in Chinese courts has been increasing steadily. Many women judges have risen to mid‐level leadership positions, such as division chiefs and vice‐chiefs, in the judicial bureaucracy. However, it remains difficult for women to be promoted to high‐level leadership positions, such as vice‐presidents and presidents. What explains the stratified patterns of career mobility for women in Chinese courts? In this article, we argue that two social processes are at work in shaping the structural patterns of gender inequality: dual‐track promotion and reverse attrition. Dual‐track promotion is dominated by a masculine and corrupt judicial culture on the political track that prevents women from obtaining high‐level promotions, but still allows them to rise to mid‐level leadership positions on the professional track based on their expertise and work performance. Reverse attrition enables women to take vacant mid‐level positions left by men who exit the judiciary to pursue other careers. Taken together, the vertical and horizontal mobility of judges in their career development presents a processual logic to gender inequality and shapes women's structural positions in Chinese courts, a phenomenon that we term the “elastic ceiling.”     

战后菲律宾农业发展困境的深层根源——基于技术和制度的视角

本文详细地描述了战后菲律宾农业技术变革及相应制度建设的情况,以及它们之间的动态作用过程。本研究发现,菲律宾在20世纪60、70年代所取得的农业成就很大程度上得益于早期政府对基础设施的投资和技术研发的支持。然而,从长期看,菲律宾政府支持农业技术研发的政治意愿并不高,导致相应的制度建设扭曲,从而造成了长期农业发展的不乐观。     

清代水事纠纷解决途径及其启示

作为封建农业大国,清代水事纠纷发生频繁,解决这些纠纷的诉讼途径和非诉讼途径相配合,其中诉讼解纷途径注重实地勘验获取第一手材料,并且注重国家法令与地方风土人情和水事习惯规则相变通和协调;非诉讼解决机制中的调解注重利用乡绅、＂水老＂等民间力量。尤其是诉讼和调解都注重发挥熟人社会的自我监督和教育功能,并促进水事习惯规则生成和传承,值得研究扬弃。     

当前公安民警违法违纪和职务犯罪的特点原因与预防对策

当前云南省公安民警违法违纪和职务犯罪案件呈现增长趋势,严重损害了公安机关形象,造成了许多社会负面影响.公安民警违法违纪和职务犯罪的原因是多方面的,预防和治理民警违法违纪和职务犯罪是一项长期的社会综合工程,不仅需要公安机关外部的监督、制约和提供法律保障,也需要公安机关内部加强自身建设,自觉抵制违法违纪和职务犯罪行为.     

新时期高校学风建设的问题与对策研究

加强学风建设,是培养和造就高素质人才的关键性要素,是教育教学质量和人才培养质量的重要保证。构建分阶段"发展性"能力素质培养体系,是加强学风建设的有益探索和实践。     

比较法视野下我国盘查措施启动标准:缺陷分析与完善理路

合理设置盘查启动标准既有利于警察执法,也有利于人权保障。通过对我国盘查制度实践的深入研究和对域外法治国家盘查启动标准的比较考察发现,我国盘查措施在启动标准上存在着混淆概念、标准单一和司法缺位三大缺陷。未来我国盘查措施启动标准的设置应当尊重警察盘查的认知规律、正视盘查的实践需要。此外,还应引入司法审查为警察正确理解盘查启动标准提供理论上的指引。     

从规则到行为：试论我们为何守法

人们为何守法一直以来是很多领域的学者探讨的问题。本文从规则与法的起源问题到个体对之内化,直至把它们外化为行为,这一动态的过程对我们为何遵守规则与法进行阐释,在此过程中,充分强调了个体间的合作、社会化的过程、自我的执行以及认知调节等的重要作用,以期对守法行为的研究提供一个崭新的视角。     

Embeddedness and Restructuring: Case Studies from Singapore

Free market ideology has continued its hegemonic reign notwithstanding considerable opposition. Under capitalism, the relationship between the political and economic realms is intricate. This inquiry on corporate restructuring in Singapore between the late 1990s and the early 2000s scrutinizes how a dominant state collaborated with the multinational corporations to reconstitute their accumulation regimes to outlast the business cycles. Based on six cases, the findings underscore the critical role of the state on the subject of restructuring. The peculiar configuration of the relations between the state and labour in Singapore shaped how they negotiated the restructuring process with the companies. While those involved reckoned that training, research and technology were pivotal, the foregoing were not the panacea that optimistic consultants had made them out to be. The interactions among capital, labour and the state remained the underpinnings of solutions.     

Migration and the reconfiguration of Malaysia

This article examines the social impact of the 1997 financial crisis in South Korea. Although the crisis was short-lived, it has created major ripples all across the country, profoundly affecting the Koreans' lifestyle and family life as well as their values and worldview. In spite of the magnitude of the financial crisis and its social impact, scant scholarly attention has been paid to the issue, although the causes and economic impact of the crisis have been amply discussed. In view of this, the article examines major social changes brought upon by the financial crisis. The article probes, for example, how employment patterns have been deeply affected, whereby a majority of workers are now irregular workers or are underemployed. The article also demonstrates how the people's perception of work has changed and how the income gap between the rich and the poor has widened. Also discussed are, among others, the continuing discrimination against women in the workplace, rising divorce rate, increase in immigration and value conflicts over the relevance of Confucianism in contemporary Korea. In addition, the article examines the agency of the Korean people in reacting to or coping with the changing circumstances.     

合意管辖制度：法理、问题与对策

合意管辖既是民事诉讼中当事人的一项程序权利,又是民事诉讼特有的一项制度。合意管辖制度具有着源自程序主体性原则以及处分权主义的法理基础,正因如此,各国都在民事诉讼立法中规定了合意管辖制度。就我国而言,虽然立法中也有关于合意管辖的规定,但其中还存在着合意管辖的案件范围太窄,合意管辖的法院双轨制等不完善之处,亟待通过对民事诉讼法的修订而得到完善。