Chile's (Inter)National Identities: Framing the Relations with Bolivia and Peru

National identities play a significant role in Latin American international relations. They affect the ways in which policy‐makers view themselves and others, as well as influencing the ways in which their policies are ‘received’ abroad. In this way, identities create opportunities and constraints for foreign policy‐making, framing the relations between Latin American countries. The author argues that, since 1990, three main patterns of Chilean identity recently affected the country's relations with its northern neighbours Bolivia and Peru: a ‘neoliberal identity’, a ‘legalistic identity’ and a ‘progressive identity’. These three patterns of identity have created opportunities for cooperation as well as causes for conflict.     

立足良好基础 全力推进全国文明城市创建工作

当前贵阳市开展的"三创一办",是深入推进全国文明城市创建的大好时机。对贵阳市创建全国文明城市的有利条件进行梳理,有利于"三创一办"工作中抓住重点,深入开展创建工作。     

关于乌鲁木齐“7·5”事件的若干思考

“7·5”事件给人民群众生命财产造成了严重损失，对新疆的经济发展政治稳定产生了巨大影响。为了使悲剧不再重演，我们必须反思，要进一步采取措施打牢民族团结的基础。要强调国家整体利益和公民意识，要把法律手段作为处理民族问题、民族关系、民族矛盾的重要手段。     

论“国家工作人员”的界定与完善

现行刑法关于“国家工作人员”的规定仍不完善，主要体现在不能清晰地界定国家工作人员的范围，执法中引发诸多争议。尽管全国人大常委会和高检、高法颁布了很多立法、司法解释，仍不能解决立法上存在的问题。究其原因，现行刑法对“国家工作人员”立法标准上的不统一，导致了执法中产生分歧。笔者建议，国家工作人员的范围应以“职责论”重新界定。     

加强党在民族工作方面执政能力建设的基本要求

加强党在民族工作方面的执政能力建设是提高党的执政能力的重要方面,也是党在新世纪解决好民族问题的现实要求。按照新时期党的建设的战略部署,党在民族工作方面的执政能力建设也需要从五个方面来不断提高和完善。     

National parliamentary control and voting in the Council of the European Union

This article explores the different ways governments express dissent in the Council of the European Union (EU) through ‘No’ votes, abstentions and recorded negative statements. A game-theoretical model is presented that studies voting behaviour and analyses how the national parliaments’ levels of control over their governments’ EU policies affect it. It is concluded that governments that are strongly controlled by their parliaments are not more likely to express dissent. However, when they do express dissent, they vote ‘No’ more often. Parliamentary control depends on the presence of formal oversight institutions as well as the motivation of parliamentarians to hold their governments accountable. Empirical support is found in an analysis of votes on 1,387 legislative proposals that represent more than a decade of Council decision making in the period 2004–2014. This article contributes to the discussion on the involvement of national parliaments in EU affairs, and clearly distinguishes the different forms of dissent in Council decision making.     

Venue Preference and Earthquake Mitigation Policy: Expanding the Micro‐Model of Policy Choice

Seismologists have reported that a majority of recent earthquakes in Oklahoma have been triggered by the activities of oil and gas companies. Despite this fact, there is evidence of strong opposition toward earthquake mitigation policy. In this article, we argue that how individuals define issues affect their policy choice. Furthermore, we incorporate the concept of venue shopping from the literature on macro theories of the policy process to investigate the effect of problem definition in shaping individual venue preference for policy choice. Using unique survey data, we find that problem definition, particularly issue causality and issue image, is strongly related to individual support for earthquake mitigation policy. However, a more nuanced relationship between individual problem definition and venue preference is observed. Our findings contribute to scholarly endeavors to understand the politics of problem definition at an individual level, which may be the precursor of understanding policy choices at the institutional level.     

民族自治地方变通立法与经济特区变通立法比较研究

立法变通权是我国法律赋予民族自治地方和经济特区特有的权力。民族自治地方变通立法是基于国家基本政治制度之一的民族区域自治制度的职权立法。经济特区变通立法是为了改革和发展需要,由全国人大授权经济特区的授权立法。二者在客观依据、法律性质、立法主体、权限、范围和程序等方面都存在着显著差别。     

以根祖文化为特色构建民族凝聚力工程——以运城市为例

＂根祖文化＂是民族的灵魂,是民族精神的重要构成部分,在增强民族凝聚力中具有重要作用。运城市是中华民族的发祥地,具有大量中华民族先祖活动的遗迹和民族文化的渊源,这就在客观上决定了运城市在构建民族凝聚力工程中必然具有＂根祖文化＂的特色。因此,组建以＂根祖文化＂为特色的组织协调系统,大力发展以＂根祖文化＂为标志的旅游企业等,必然成为运城市实施增强中华民族凝聚力工程的特色内容。     

《民法典》传统基因与民族特色的法理解析

我国民法典汲取了优秀传统法文化,带有鲜明的民族特色。传统法文化既形塑了民法典的独特人文精神,也对其制度建构深具启示。在精神牵引上,传统文化的德法合治影响了民法典浓厚的道德关怀,重视抽象化的人之德性价值为人格权独立成篇提供了哲理论证,传统民本精神、“法顺人情”、天人合一思想、诚信文化都有其精神传承。在民法典制度安排上,继承了传统的典章治理智慧和通过法典化增强民族认同的政治使命,“有典有册”、律例统编的传统形式启发了民法典简约的立法技术。此外,在具体制度上,传统家事法律制度深刻影响了婚姻家庭编,传统典权制度为农村土地“三权分置”进行了历史论证。民法典对民族特色的彰显并非偶然,其原因在于民法典是民族特质的法意凝练,法治发展趋势要求从法律移植到“中国之治”,通过民法典提振民族精神也具有世界经验。但传统法文化影响不能过度拔高,其诸多人文主张仅停留在观念层次,而缺乏制度建构。应对传统观念进行现代化的制度转换与批判性继承,引领新的社会文明。