The States Come Marching In: Examining State Agency Influence on Federal Rules

Amidst congressional gridlock, administrative rulemaking is the main pathway for environmental policy making. Scholars have assessed the role of the institutions of government (the president, Congress, and the courts) and key interest groups (i.e., business and environmental interests) in shaping rulemaking outcomes. What is missing from this literature is an assessment of the role of key implementers, state environmental agencies. This research fills this gap by assessing the role and impact of state government agencies in three case studies of rulemaking at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Based on original interviews and a public comment analysis, this research suggests that state agencies play an active and influential role in EPA rulemaking. And, in some cases, state agencies wield more influence than other interest groups. Interviewees argued that this influence stems from these agencies’ unique voice as an implementation collaborator. As a result, researchers should incorporate an assessment of the role of these interests to more effectively explain regulatory outcomes at the EPA and potentially across the bureaucracy.     

知识产权变动登记效力模式探析——以专利权为例

专利权作为绝对权,在变动过程中关涉不特定多数人利益,因此其在变动中的公示方式及其效力模式的选择至关重要。通过分析,在我国现行法律体系下,专利权变动宜采登记证明主义和登记生效主义,但在应然层面上,或许采登记证明主义和登记对抗主义更为合适。专利权变动登记模式可以适用于整个知识产权。     

刑罚变更执行监督存在的问题及完善

对刑罚执行变更活动实行监督是法律赋予检察机关的一项重要法律监督职能,实践中,由于目标价值的缺失、立法滞后等原因,导致刑罚变更执行监督职能弱化,影响了监督效果的实现。因此,有必要深入研究制约刑罚变更执行监督有效开展的原因,构建科学、合理的刑罚变更执行监督机制,以充分发挥检察机关的法律监督职能。     

论国有企业公司制改造后的债务承担

国有企业公司制改造是当前企业改制的一个重要方式,它又分为企业整体改制为公司和企业部分改制为公司两种基本形式。企业整体改制为公司时,需注意正确处理新股东的加入与原企业债务承担之间的关系;企业部分改制为公司时,则要正确识别企业的分立重组行为与企业转投资行为之间的差异,从而正确处理国有企业公司制改造后的债务承担问题。     

建国以来土地制度变革给农业和农民阶级带来的影响

新中国成立以来，先后进行了三次土地制度变革：农业合作化、人民公社制、家庭联产承包责任制。每一次土地制度变革都给中国农民的社会地位带来了深刻的影响。反过来，农民阶级地位和作用的变动都不同程度地推动了农村的社会进步。特别是以家庭承包经营为标志的第三次土地改革，有利于调动农民的积极性，有利于解放和发展农村生产力。     

A short history of studying incremental institutional change: Does Explaining Institutional Change provide any new explanations?

Kathleen Thelen is one of the leading scholars studying incremental institutional change. In her early works from the 1990s, she introduced the conceptualization of different modes of incremental change. These modes have central attention in her recent co-edited book with James Mahoney, Explaining Institutional Change (2010). Compared with Thelen's earlier work, this book provides clearer definitions, addresses the explanatory factors of institutional change, and discusses the patterns and sequences of gradual institutional change. The theory presented by Mahoney and Thelen, however, seems overambitious and subject to a need to be overly crisp and clear.     

National Institutions and the Globalized Political Economy of Technological Change: An Introduction

In the last three decades research across the social sciences has made great advances in the political economy of technological change. Nonetheless, many of these insights are solely tied to national, sometimes regional, explanations of industrial R&D and innovation rates. Meanwhile, the impacts of the international system, and of the actions of individual countries, on technological changes across many countries, are increasingly more pronounced. It is therefore imperative that we expand our theoretical conceptualizations. For these reasons we have gathered, in this special issue, economists, political scientists, geographers, and sociologists to explore in a comparative way what we view as some of the critical areas for research at two different level of analysis—business and nations. This introduction will outline their major research themes and provide a brief history of the debate.     

Ideology, Institutions and Ideas: Explaining Political Change in Venezuela

This article scrutinises the links between patterns and modes of political participation and the emergence of Bolivarianism in Venezuela in the early 1990s. I study how Bolivarianism triumphed over competing projects in a period characterised by widespread unrest and its relationship to the Punto-Fijo institutional structure it overthrew. I argue that the ideas of Bolivarianism are derived from contradictions inherent to the existing institutions, and can only be understood in relation to the values and practices embedded in them, which Bolivarianism aimed to replace.     

论扬州评话语音的历史演变及其得失

扬州评话历史的辉煌和目前的衰落形成巨大反差.扬州评话语音演变的历史饱含正反两面经验.扬州评话祖师柳敬亭善于根据听众特点调整语音,他说书的地域范围很广.语音以官话和地方官话为主.清代盛世扬州人口构成和文化特点,决定当时扬州评话语音是官话、地方官话和方言共存.晚清以后扬州人口构成和文化特点,造成扬州评话语音方言化.方言化在本地富有生存能力,但到了更广阔范围却削弱生存竞争能力.扬州评话要继续发展必须变革语音,很多方言文艺也都是如此.     

我国国家政策变迁与行政法学的新课题

近二十年来,我国着力推进社会主义民主政治、改善民生、建设法治政府和服务型政府,这些国家政策变迁为我国行政法学发展提供了宝贵契机。尤其是改善民生的国家政策将推动给付行政法研究,有序参与的民主政策将催生公私合作制研究,利益统筹政策将促进多元化纠纷解决机制研究。对这三个领域的热切关注和持续研究将直接影响我国行政法学在未来数十年的变迁格局。