Mobilizing Millennial Voters with Targeted Internet Advertisements: A Field Experiment

Internet advertisements have come under tremendous scrutiny recently for their potential to impact electoral outcomes. However, academic research has yet to determine if they have an effect on turnout. This article presents the results of a preregistered field experiment conducted in Dallas, Texas, in partnership with The Dallas Morning News in which individually targeted banner ads were able to generate a statistically significant increase in turnout among Millennial voters in a municipal election. The results show that a combination of information and voting reminder ads was effective, but only for voters in competitive districts. Estimated treatment effects were on par with a telephone mobilization campaign using live callers. These findings contribute to theoretical knowledge about the role of political knowledge and electoral competitiveness in voter mobilization, and offer a new method for testing online advertisements used by political campaigns.     

领导学学科体系的基本问题

为更完整地研究好领导学,有必要探索构建领导学学科体系。要科学地构建领导学一级学科体系,必须首先理清领导活动的基本矛盾、基本难题及领导职能界定等重要问题。领导职能是由文化构建、组织构建、战略构建为具体内容的组织整合;领导活动的基本矛盾是自主个人与组织代表者的矛盾;领导活动的基本难题是如何科学地把握领导与其它管理的区别和联系。     

论违法性判断标准

犯罪必须是行为人实施了从实质上说为法律所不允许的行为,即必须是实施了违法行为。如果不存在违法行为,那不管行为人主观责任有多大都不构成犯罪。但如何判断何为＂违法行为＂,或者说某一行为是否具有违法性要依什么标准来衡量,学者们对此一直争论不休。笔者拟从当前刑法学界所＂盛行＂的几种违法性判断标准入手,逐一分析各自的优越性及弊端,得出笔者认为最适合中国国情的违法性判断标准。     

关于我国合同法及其司法解释限制强制性规范位阶的实证思考

违法合同的效力认定涉及到私法自治和公法强制、当事人利益与社会公共利益之间的紧张关系，一直困扰着我国的民事理论和实务。本文通过实证、比较、逻辑等多视角分析，认为应将《合同法》第五十二条第5项（违法）纳入《合同法》第五十二条第4项（损害社会公共利益）的射程当中，从而一律通过利益衡量的方法来决定违法合同的效力。     

中国传统社会政治规范中的和谐元素

追求和谐、崇尚和美是中国传统文化的核心和要义。中国传统社会政治规范中的和谐思想有很多。“德”沟通“天”与“人”,同时,在人与人之间、社会各阶层之间充当着黏合剂的角色,可以说其周身散发着“和谐”元素的气息;“礼”从调整血缘亲属的关系入手强调“分”、“别”、“异”,目的仍在“和”;“天下为公”的大同理想蕴含了大量的“公有”、“公平”、“平等”、“平均”等和谐元素;仁是儒家推行“仁政”的基础,作为一种政治主张,其价值取向就是社会和谐;中庸主义体现了求和谐、求适时、求合宜、求稳定的思维方法和行为方法。     

Can terrorism become a scientific discipline? A diagnostic study

This study offers a meta-information analysis of the state of the art of terrorism research from structural disciplinary perspectives, and by comparisons with several other fields of study. It observes the interrelationship of disciplinary characteristics, specifically, scientific collaboration among terrorism researchers, the growth rate in the number of conferences in the field after 9/11 and the fragmentation of terrorism studies into separate research specialties. These three trends coincide, indicating the growing importance and visibility of terrorism and counter-terrorism studies for government decision-makers and an increase in funding for this research, much of which is channelled in specific desired directions. The new research on terrorism has created disciplinary studies on the subject in the sciences and the life sciences, side by side with traditional social science research. The fragmentation of the field, growing collaboration and the appearance of conference proceedings on terrorism are indicative of the beginnings of an autonomous academic research field, a distinct discipline of study. In great part, these developments are not only due to the infiltration of new subject areas into the network of terrorism research, but also to the expanding number of journals devoted to different aspects of the subject. The road to recognition as an academic discipline depends on whether the various aspects of terrorism studies can be integrated into one comprehensive branch of learning. This ability, in turn, is conditional on the field's cognitive structure or knowledge characteristics, as well as on the shifts and changes in the actual terrorism scene in the future that might influence the nature of research.     

The Russian case for military intervention in Georgia: international law,norms and political calculation

Abstract

The Russian military intervention in Georgia in August 2008 has raised significant questions about Russian thinking and practice on the legitimate use of military force abroad, especially in relation to neighbour states. The arguments advanced by Russia to justify this campaign show how Russian interpretations of customary international law as well as norms related to the use of force have served as an instrument of state policy, rather than being rooted in any broader international consensus. The Russian discourse in this context about sovereignty, self-determination and the legitimacy of recognising South Ossetia and Abkhazia as states appears similarly to be strongly influenced by political self-interest and Russian views about its entitlement within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. Among Russian claims, Moscow's commitment to support its ‘citizens’ abroad has been particularly controversial. This article examines these issues and also the possibility that, through its justifications for waging war against Georgia, Russia is more broadly contesting the interpretation of certain international norms, that it regards as essentially constructed by Western states. Some potential implications of these legal and normative arguments for future Russian policy in the CIS region, including Ukraine, are also examined.     

对妨害出入境管理法律规范适用的评析

《中华人民共和国出入境管理法》将于2013年7月1日起施行,但由于我国出入境管理法律规范繁多,不可避免地出现了刑法与行政法之间的冲突,行政法规范相关条文之间的冲突等法律适用冲突的问题。本文通过对法律沿革并对现行法律的冲突之处进行分析研究,提出法律冲突解决原则、制定统一的法律和法律解释等意见建议,以期为解决出入境管理法律规范冲突问题提供借鉴。     

休闲学:走进生命的学问

随着生活水平的提高和价值观的变迁,休闲日益成为中国人生活中不可或缺的重要组成部分,休闲文化更成为一项衡量社会经济和文明发展的指标,一种崭新的生活方式和生活态度.本文在广泛借鉴和吸收国内外休闲学研究最新成果的基础上,指出休闲学是走进生命的学问.回归生命的诗意,追求快乐和谐的生活,是休闲与休闲学研究的终极目标.同时,文章辨析了休闲及其相关概念,围绕“人”这一中心,从历史、社会、体验、经济和发展五个维度构建全新的休闲学框架体系,以期对深化后续休闲研究有所裨益.     

ASEAN's norm adherence and its unintended consequences in HADR and SAR operations

This paper examines the effects and expressions of norm compliance in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ‘unintended consequences’ arising from such compliance. This is done through an analysis of ASEAN's responses in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts in the Typhoon Haiyan disaster and in the search for missing flight MH370. It argues that the lethargic ASEAN responses in the Haiyan disaster and the uncoordinated search efforts for missing flight MH370 are unintended outcomes arising from norm adherence specifically to the norms of ‘respect for sovereignty’ and ‘consensual decision-making’ which constrained the range of ASEAN responses.