银保合作：中国保险业发展的必然选择

随着保险业与银行合作在世界范围内的兴起,国内保险业也在与银行的合作方面加快了脚步。我国银保合作良好的基础和优势促进了银保合作实践的迅猛发展,同时也暴露出金融监管体制不完善对国内银保合作的制约。     

中央与地方权力集分一般均衡的经济学模型分析

中央与地方的关系具体表现在集权与分权的关系上,如何实现中央与地方分权的均衡是一个世界性、历史性的难题,本文通过引入边际、成本、收益等经济学的概念和分析方法,试图构建中央与地方集权与分权的一般均衡模型,以期对同界学仁有所启发.     

What price access to the open seas? The geopolitics of oil and gas transmission from the Trans-Caspian republics

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was the world's largest hydrocarbon producer. The landmass over which these resources are distributed is vast and the reserves mostly landlocked. To convey these hydrocarbons to refineries and to market, the Soviets constructed the largest integrated pipeline networks in the world. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, new competing national interests have produced tensions over these energy resources and transmission corridors, with economically detrimental and often irrational consequences. In Central Asia, the post-Soviet Republics of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan produce significant amounts of hydrocarbons and export their oil and gas to or through Russian Federation territory. Russian government policy aims to continue exercising political control over these resources and to maximize Moscow's share of profits from their export. This paper examines oil and gas transmission issues in Central Asia, against a backdrop of emerging new relationships between the Russian Federation and the three post-Soviet republics, the resurgent strategic competition between Russia and the United States, China's developing power base in the region and Iran's potentially key geographic position for channelling Caspian energy supplies towards the Persian Gulf.     

Compromising coalitions and duplicitous diplomacy: US support for Tajikistan after 9/11 and its security implications

This article investigates the development of democracy in Tajikistan and analyzes what has earned it the most international acclaim: its secular-Islamic governing coalition. The investigation reveals a compromised and illegitimate coalition that, with American collusion in local regime repression, poses great dangers to international security. The article argues that government repression, leading to increasing radicalization, combines with foreign aid to damage long-term democracy potential in Tajikistan but also works against global security interests by creating doubt about American intentions and possibly allowing a concomitant rise in Islamic radicalism.     

新时期党风建设的行动纲领——学习党的十五届六中全会决定的体会

党的十五届六中全会通过的《中共中央关于加强和改进党的作风建设的决定》在马克思主义党风建设史上是里程碑式的文献,是新时期党的建设的一项重大决策。学习好、领会好、贯彻好《决定》,深刻把握《决定》的理论主题、实践指向和科学思维,才能真正把党的作风建设提高到一个新的水平。     

Q&A in legislative oversight: A framework for analysis

Parliamentary questions are an essential tool of legislative oversight. However, the extent to which they are effective in controlling the executive remains underspecified both theoretically and methodologically. This article advances a systematic framework for evaluating the effectiveness of parliamentary questions drawing on principal–agent theory, the public administration literature on accountability and communication research. The framework is called the ‘Q&A approach to legislative oversight’ based on the premise that the study of parliamentary questions (Q) needs to be linked to their respective answers (A) and examined together (Q&A) at the micro-level as an exchange of claims between legislative and executive actors. Methodologically, the Q&A approach to legislative oversight offers a step-by-step guide for qualitative content analysis of Q&A that can be applied to different legislative oversight contexts at different levels of governance. It is argued that the effectiveness of Q&A depends on the strength of the questions asked and the responsiveness of answers provided, which are correspondingly operationalised. To illustrate the merits of the approach, the article includes a systematic case study on the relationship between the European Parliament and the European Central Bank in banking supervision (2013–2018), showing the connection between specific institutional settings and the effectiveness of parliamentary questions.     

The Czech transition banking sector instability: the role of operational cost management

In this article we show—using the estimated cost efficiency of banks—that besides the risk (proxied by the share of non-performing loans), the quality of operational cost management was an equally important determinant of bank failure risk during the decade of banking sector transformation in the Czech Republic.

统一领导与分级管理:中央政府能力悖论的一个解释框架

中国政治生活中存在着一系列看似矛盾的基本事实:中央既强大、又脆弱;中央权力既是保障公民正常生活的中流砥柱,又是"遥远的权威".求解上述悖论有利于抓住维护国家统一与激发地方活力的"黄金分割点".这需要反思和超越已有研究方法,从概念和理论导向走向实践导向.深入考察中国政府体制的特殊经验,可以发现包括上述悖论在内的很多政治现...     

关于抓住重要战略机遇的若干思考

文章阐述了战略机遇的内涵及特点,指出战略机遇稍纵即逝,要全面实现"十二五"的奋斗目标和完成全面建设小康社会历史任务,需要牢牢把握重要战略机遇。文章从国际和国内两个视角分析了我国面临的战略机遇,提出中国抓住战略机遇要坚持改革开放不放松,要坚持发展是第一要务,要善于化危为机。     

十六届中共中央政治局集体学习综论

十六届中共中央政治局在继承和发扬党的三代中央领导集体重视学习、善于学习的优良传统、理论联系实际的优良学风的基础上,一个突出的特点是中央政治局集体学习的制度化。44次集体学习是围绕着全面建设小康社会这个中心任务展开的。这些重视学习、加强学习的安排,带着战略眼光、历史眼光、世界眼光来学习的方法,对建设学习型政党发挥着重要的领导和示范作用。