关于扩大人大财政监督职责的几个问题

在我国,审议财政预算及其执行情况,是各级人民代表大会及其常务委员会监督政府机关的工作,规范政府行为的重要途径。由于历史和现实诸多因素的制约,目前我国人大财政预算监督质量还不高。对此我们认为:一、应该对人大的财政监督职能及其实施有更加明确、规范的规定。二、针对我国目前预算实施所出现的问题,考虑(1)建立重大项目的特别全程审查制度。(2)加强人大对部门预算的审查。三、明确“第二财政”的财政性,把他的使用纳入人大的审查和监督的范围。     

Governing China in the early 21st century: Provincial perspective

China is a country of provinces and provincial leaders are important players in Chinese politics. It is important to know who will be governing China’s provinces in the early 21^st century and how they are going to govern them. This paper will attempt to address three critical issues related to governance of China’s provinces. First, it will describe the new provincial leadership of the early 21^st century. It will identify significant changes in terms of personal characteristics of this new leadership compared to that of earlier years. Second, it will analyze political structural changes at the provincial level. It will look at the relationship among several important provincial institutions and identify significant historical changes. Third, it will assess public policy orientations of the new provincial leadership.     

The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars

ABSTRACT

In this article we introduce the special issue through framing the debate on the role of caste in India’s current land wars. We draw attention to how caste consistently mediates land transfers in present day India by pre-empting, undermining, or fuelling processes of social contestation, as well as the ways in which land claims in turn shape realigned or reimagined caste identities. Based on this, we make three main arguments. The first and most obvious one is that in contemporary conflicts over land, caste matters in evolving ways that deserve attention. Second, we argue that caste and land are recursively linked categories that are produced and reproduced in continuous interaction, even as multi-scalar political economies (re)shape them. And third, that different registers of caste are articulated by different social groups in more or less overt ways as they stake often competing claims to land.     

Y-chromosome STR haplotypes in Somalis

A total of 201 males from Somalia were typed for the Y-chromosome STRs DYS19, DYS385a/b, DYS389-I, DYS389-II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS437, DYS438 and DYS439 with the PowerPlex Y kit (Promega). A total of 96 different haplotypes were observed and the haplotype diversity was 0.9715. The number of unique haplotypes was 71 while the most common haplotype was observed 24 times.     

Y-chromosome STR haplotypes in Danes

A total of 185 unrelated Danish males were typed for the Y-chromosome STRs DYS19, DYS385a/b, DYS389-I, DYS389-II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS437, DYS438 and DYS439 using the kits PowerPlex Y (Promega), ReliaGene Y-Plex 6 and ReliaGene Y-Plex 5 (Reliagene Technologies). A total of 163 different haplotypes were observed and among these, 144 haplotypes were unique. The gene diversity was 0.9985. In DYS392, a variant allele migrating as a 10.2 allele was observed. Sequencing of the allele showed a deletion upstream the repeated area.     

Managing the Welfare State: Lessons from Gustav Möller*

The administrative problems of the present Welfare State have come into focus in recent research. The basic question being raised is whether an elected government can control the bureaucracies that handle the social programmes, i.e., whether the intentions of the parliamentary majority really can be translated into action when they reach the point of administrative implementation. The central subject of this study is the legendary architect of the Swedish Welfare State, Gustav Möller, who was Minister of Social Affairs 1924-26 and 1932-51. It is argued that many of the problems highlighted in present theories of public administration were already apparent to Möller. As the minister responsible for the administrative construction of the Swedish Welfare State, he developed several strategies to cope with the problems of bureaucracy. Having lost the battle over the Social Democratic party leadership in 1946, Gustav Möller left the government in 1951. Subsequently many of his original anti-bureaucratic administrative strategies were reversed.     

河北省参与"西部计划"大学生志愿者情况调查分析

对2003年河北省服务西部大学生志愿者的调查表明,他们参与"西部计划"的动机主要为"国家需要"、"自我锻炼",98%的志愿者表示对未来1～2年的服务"有信心",多数志愿者表示服务期满后会考虑继续留在西部.同时,调查也发现服务期满后的就业问题是这些志愿者最担忧的问题.     

文明相容与人权对话--大沼保昭《人权、国家与文明》读后

日本学者大沼保昭建立了"文明相容的人权观"的思想,以此为分析视角,重新审视了普遍人权与特殊人权、人权与主权、经济性人权与自由性人权的关系,可以发现我们的一些人权口号在反对西方人权攻势的同时,也走入了另外一个极端.放弃实用主义,在反对西方霸权主义的同时对人权的理论问题进行深入分析并努力改善人权,才是在人权问题上的科学态度.     

对挪用公款罪中"归个人使用"的质疑

我国法学界对挪用公款罪中"归个人使用"的争论由来已久.2002年4月全国人大常委会作出的立法解释虽然较为科学地界定了"公款使用者"的范围,增强了司法实践可操作性,但仍有不足之处,也产生了一些新的问题.无论从司法实践还是立法发展来看,"归个人使用"都不应成为挪用公款的必备要件.按照普遍定罪列举不构罪的特殊技术,尽快对挪用公款罪修订完善,以确保及时有效地打击该类犯罪.     

“张国华先生学术思想暨21世纪中国法学展望研讨会”综述

<正> 张国华先生是我国著名的法学家,曾为中国法律思想史的研究工作和法学教育作出了卓越的贡献。如今,他离开我们已经三载有余,为了更好的继承先生的学术成果、发扬先生的治学风范,由北京大学法律学系《中外法学》编辑部北京大学法律学系法律史教研室、中国法律史学会中国法律思想分会联合召开的“张国华先生学术思想暨21世纪中国法学展望研讨会”于1999年5月28日在北京大学举行。来自全国各地的60余位相关学科领域的著名学者参加了会议。北京大学法学院院长吴志攀教授、原北京大学党委书记王学珍、北京大学党委副书记赵存生、原中国政法大学校长陈光中教授、中国法律史学会会长韩延龙教授等到会并讲话,会上并宣读了全国政协副主席罗豪才,中国人民大学法学院院长曾宪义教授,中山大学刘恒焕教授