Social networks and non‐market strategy

To date, the field of non‐market strategy has little to offer in the way of an integrated perspective on the simultaneous management of strategic issues and corporate stakeholders. This paper employs social network analysis to make a number of theoretically grounded conjectures about the delicate relationships between stakeholder behaviour and issue evolution. It is found that social network analysis has the potential to enrich and integrate theoretical perspectives in the field of non‐market strategy, offering solutions to a set of previously unresolved puzzles. Copyright © 2004 Henry Stewart Publications     

关于消防行政执法中自由裁量权的几点思考

没有自由裁量权,现代行政将会失去其价值和意义.本文从自由裁量权的特征、存在的合理性及其法律监控和救济等几个方面对目前我国消防行政执法中存在的问题进行相关思考,并提出合理建议.     

跨国制药公司发展趋势及政府对策

新世纪初,跨国制药公司生存、经营和竞争环境发生了巨大变化,这些变化促使制药业跨国公司在竞争理念、投资战略、经营战略、研发战略和管理体制等方面进行了相应调整,呈现出新的发展趋势。本文探讨了跨国制药公司发展趋势对我国医药产业的影响,并提出了切实可行的政策建议。     

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.     

浅议民主党派在构建社会主义和谐社会中的作用

建设中国特色的社会主义、实现中华民族的伟大复兴,是包括各民主党派在内的全国各族人民的共同愿望.中国共产党作为执政党,在十六届四中全会上正式提出了构建"社会主义和谐社会"的概念,这是对中国特色社会主义事业认识的新发展,是对十六大提出的全面建设小康社会目标的深化和拓展.这种对科学社会主义理论与社会主义初级阶段具体现实有机统一的整合性认识,既坚持了马克思主义关于社会主义建设的理论原则,又牢牢立足于社会主义初级阶段的基本条件和国情,是人们对社会主义社会发展人性化要求的最真切、最具体的体现.     

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.