Institutionalizing from the Middle: the Impacts of Provincial Legislation on Rural Grassroots Democracy in China

Nominal democratic institutions under non-democratic regimes vary across countries. This study intends to advance our understanding of such institutions by exploring the relevance of one aspect of the authoritarian regimes, government hierarchy. Focusing on village-level democratization in China, we investigate the intermediary role of the provincial level governments in shaping the variant outcomes of grassroots democracy across the country. Through an analysis of a national sample, we find that divergent provincial legislative interpretation of central policies is a key determinant of public access to power and democratic governance of village-level governments. Our finding suggests that authoritarian states can employ various institutions to gather information, accommodate local variations, and thus contain potential intra-government disagreement.     

城市拆迁中公众参与机制的功能与立法建议——对“新《条例》”制定困境的思考

公共利益的界定和补偿标准的确定是城市房屋征收与拆迁立法的两大难题。公众参与具有约束公权力、保障私权利之功能,是合理界定公共利益、确定补偿标准的有效途径。因此,将公众参与中的听证和协商机制引入"新《条例》",有助于走出城市房屋征收与拆迁的立法困境。     

WTO争端解决中的可诉性问题释微——基于成案的视角

GATT/WTO争端解决的判例显示,WTO成员的立法行为本身、尚未生效的法规措施、没有法律约束力的行政指导在WTO体制中都具有可诉性。已失效的法规措施通常不具有可诉性,但若相关措施是在进入专家组程序后失效的,专家组或上诉机构仍可能对之作出裁决。以上行为具有可诉性体现出了多边贸易体制保护竞争条件的精神。     

信息化办公时代劳动者的离线权

信息化办公已经成为当前劳动者的主要办公方式之一,其即时沟通的特点使得劳动者工作效率显著提高,但模糊了办公场所与非办公场所、工作时间与休息时间的界限,导致劳动者休息权被侵犯的情况时有发生,甚至造成过度劳动等问题。研究分析了离线权保护的必要性和紧迫性,并结合国外离线权的发展与适用,具体阐释了离线权的法律内涵,进而为我国建立离线权法律制度提出相关建议。     

中国内地与香港刑事司法协助原则浅探

中国内地与香港特别行政区在刑事法律制度方面存在的重大差异以及两法域间尚未签订双边刑事司法协助协议的现状,为一些犯罪分子逃避法律制裁提供了可乘之机.在"一国两制"条件下.探讨两法域间开展刑事司法协助过程中存在的问题,确立两法域认同的基本原则、"死刑犯不移交"原则和公共秩序保留原则,对于指导司法协助实务、依法惩治犯罪具有重要的理论和实践意义.     

The Dorian Gray effect: winners as state breakers in postcommunism

This paper examines the relations between postcommunist states and the powerful economic groups that dominated the early stages of postcommunist economic restructuring. The main argument is that the strategic actions of “winners” systematically undermine the capacity of state institutions and the organizational coherence of administrative agencies. Against the background of a detailed study of one particular story of “postcommunist success”, the rise of Multigroup in Bulgaria, I explore the concrete manifestations of “state weakness” in postcommunism, the nature of redistributive conflicts the former socialist societies, and the historical specificity of the processes undermining the organizational bases of governance in the former Soviet world.     

商人主义、商行为主义究竟是什么?——理论综述与质疑

商人主义、商行为主义是商法理论中用来标识不同立法例的常用词。但通过检索我国现有的商法学与商法总论教科书、相关的商法学论文与专著,商人主义、商行为主义的定位与功能存在各种观点与表述,并没有相对统一的结论。求证于作为商行为主义之代表的《法国商法典》、《西班牙商法典》,作为立法例的商行为主义难以得到验证。商人主义、商行为主义有三种定位,以往的理论并未作出区分。我国未来的商事基本法在立法技术上应采商人主义。     

论我国解决民族问题的宪法原则实施机制——以“民族团结原则”为视角

我国是统一的"多民族"国家,"民族团结原则"是解决我国民族团结问题重要宪法原则和基本依据。解决民族团结问题,必须以"民族团结原则"为基础,构建以原则支撑、立法、执法、司法和评价为构成要素的实施机制体系,从而为解决民族团结问题提供根本法治化路径。     

住房按揭贷款逾期风险识别与管理研究——基于借款人学历视角的实证检验

住房按揭贷款市场向来关注借款人学历水平,但有关学历与借款人行为内在关系的研究却相对不足。以住房公积金贷款为例,利用某重点城市2005-2014年住房公积金贷款还款数据,构建Cox比例风险模型,从总体影响、被动逾期、主动逾期、年龄效应等多个维度,对借款人学历与其还款逾期行为之间的联系进行系统性实证检验。研究结果表明,在偿还住房按揭贷款的过程中,高学历借款人的信用水平相对更优,他们的被动逾期和主动逾期行为发生概率均相对更低,并且这一规律在年轻借款人群体中更加明显。因此,商业银行、住房公积金中心等（准）金融机构可以充分利用学历信号在识别借款人信用过程中的上述作用,进一步加强住房按揭贷款风险防控,更好地实现金融服务供需有效匹配,提高授信方资金安全性和受信方金融可得性。     

Rent-seeking contests with private values and resale

This paper studies rent-seeking contests with private values and resale possibilities. With a stochastic success function, the resulting possible inefficiency creates a motive for aftermarket trade. Players’ valuations are determined endogenously when there is an opportunity of resale. We characterize symmetric equilibria. We assume that the winner has full bargaining power, but the results extend to other resale mechanisms. We show that resale enhances allocative efficiency ex post at the expense of more social resource waste since players compete more aggressively with resale possibilities.