宪政：一种文明的政制形式

对于“政制”的理解和看法,不仅表现了东西方法律文明的不同发展特质,也代表着中国对法治文化内涵的理解,同时,还引发了中西方在国家即社会治理中的不同发展轨迹。笔者认为,只有对“政制”这一概念加以分析,才能更好地理解宪政观念在我国“依法治国”中的作用和意义。这里所讲的“政制”是与“政治”相对称,与“法制”相区别的制度性框架,是以特有的国家制度机制或治理方略为内容而形成的一整套与国家观念相匹配的宪政制度和理论。     

农民增收质量问题探析

农民增收质量是经济、政治、文化诸因素在农民收入中的凝结,体现了科学发展观的本质要求.研究农民增收质量具有极为重要的理论和实践价值.     

Risk management for targeting customs controls in developing countries: a risky venture for revenue performance?

Customs authorities in developing countries are often reluctant to forget systematic inspections for fear of risking revenue loss. Such physical inspections however, impede rather than facilitate trade. Control selectivity is therefore a key issue in customs administration reform. This paper shows how a sophisticated risk management method can facilitate trade by automatically and rationally selecting transactions, with the end result of actually enhancing revenue performance. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

爆炸现场电雷管脚线的发现和认定

在爆炸案件现场中,有不少用工业电雷管作为起爆器材的,而现今常用的工业电雷管的脚线是铁质的,其硬度、熔点、延展性在起爆器材各部件中可以说是最大的。另外,由于起爆的需要,总有一部分雷管脚线离爆炸中心较远,因此爆炸后脚线的变形在爆炸装置中往往是最小的,在现场中很容易遗留下来。如何在现场遗留物中发现并认定雷管脚线,对认定爆炸的起爆方式非常重要,进而直接影响着对案件的定性,也影响着案件侦查方向和范围的划定。     

福建省人口老龄化发展趋势及战略对策

人口老龄化是世界人口发展的一种趋势。我国在上世纪七、八十年代推行计划生育政策,导致我国人口老龄化又具有一定的特殊性。本文从福建省老年人口发展的概况、现状入手,对其人口老龄化发展趋势进行分析与探讨,并提出若干建议。     

现代社会生活的批判与中国社会秩序的当代建构

寻脉现代西方资本主义国家的社会流动、优才统治、科层组织的影响以及对现代人生活及其观念的改变,可以发现,当代西方"才华和无用的幽灵"以及无根基的知识缘由驱逐着"匠人精神",凸显没有任何个性和生命活性的"数据",逐渐边缘化了个体的精神理念、审美情趣以及个人偏好,因而生命在"无根"之状中无价值性地存活,这导致了精神与人格分裂成了西方现代人的共同病症。如此,透视现代生活,找寻现代社会的新生活进程与确认新的价值坐标,摆脱所谓人的内在、外在能力的挖掘之取向,锁定"交易"的边界,超越"技能社会"、"技能经济"并进而超越由主义的斯密模式和军事化的韦伯模式,解构现代人生活的"焦虑感"、"恐惧感"与"虚无感",从被遗弃的生存感重新找回、建构自我的幸福。只有认识、批判资本主义文化的病症,才可融入并超越现代社会的历史局限,寻到人自我解放的道路。     

Money,Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

In colonial America, land acquired new liquidity when it became liable for debts. Though English property law maintained a firm distinction between land and chattel for centuries, in the American colonies, the boundary between the categories of real and personal property began to disintegrate. There, the novelty of easy foreclosure and consequent easy alienation of land made it possible for colonists to obtain credit, using land as a security. However, scholars have neglected the first instances in which a newly unconstrained practice of mortgage foreclosure appeared—the transactions through which colonists acquired land from indigenous people in the first place. In this article, I explore these early transactions for land, which took place across fundamental differences between colonists’ and native communities’ conceptions of money, land, and exchange itself. I describe how difference and dependence propelled the growth of the early American contact economy to make land into real estate, or the fungible commodity on the speculative market that it remains today.