Can decision transparency increase citizen trust in regulatory agencies? Evidence from a representative survey experiment

Decision transparency is often proposed as a way to maintain or even increase citizen trust, yet this assumption is still untested in the context of regulatory agencies. We test the effect of transparency of a typical decision tradeoff in regulatory enforcement: granting forbearance or imposing a sanction. We employed a representative survey experiment (n = 1,546) in which we test the effect of transparency in general (providing information about a decision or not) and the effect of specific types of transparency (process or rationale transparency). We do this for agencies supervising financial markets, education, and health care. We find that overall decision transparency significantly increases citizen trust in only two of the three agencies. Rationale transparency has a more pronounced positive effect only for the Education Inspectorate. We conclude that the overall effect of decision transparency is positive but that the nature of the regulatory domain may weaken or strengthen this effect.     

中国西部民族地区经济开放度评价及战略选择

本文运用数学模型和实证分析相结合的方法,对我国西部民族地区经济开放度进行了评估和论证,认为经济开放度是衡量区域经济发展水平的重要标志,要提升西部民族地区的经济实力,必须把提高开放度放在突出位置。     

非法吸收公众存款罪公开性特征的具体认定

非法吸收公众存款罪的公开性是该罪认定上的难点,也是理论研究的薄弱环节,其中的相关问题应得到进一步明确。首先,公开性的本质是宣传对象的不特定性,即针对不特定多数的人进行宣传。其次,公开性与社会性存在交集和重叠,同时也各具独立价值。第三,在口头传播的性质认定上,应区分是否为集资人授意及集资人对集资信息的扩散持何种心态。第四,公开性不以虚假宣传为必要。     

现行政府信息公开制度与档案开放立法的完善

《政府信息公开条例》的颁布使我国政府信息公开工作规范化,将极大地推动政府信息工作的开展。信息公开是档案利用的一个重要组成部分,《条例》的颁布对档案信息利用立法是挑战,也是一种机遇。其在立法理念、信息公开的主体、方式等方面对我国档案利用立法形成较大的冲击。档案部门必须积极应对,不断健全和完善相关法律法规．确立开放利用为原则的立法理念,协调档案开放立法层次,把机关档案室纳入档案开放服务机构体系,缩短细化档案开放时限,扩大档案开放范围,设立档案开放制度保障机制。     

论罗马法形成过程的开放性及其灵活性--兼谈其对我国编纂民法典的启示

本文在对罗马法发展过程进行考察和评析的基础上 ,分析了罗马法在形成中所具有的开放性和灵活性特征 ,进而结合现实的立法情况探讨了上述特征对中国民法法典化的启示。