传统文化心理视域下现代中国腐败生成的机理分析

受中国传统文化心理的影响,在中国人的思维世界中个人与群体是高度契合的,并形成相互浸润和难以割舍的关系,这就使得在我国的人际交往关系中呈现出宗法家族制、人情面子等特点。建立在以家庭为基础的宗法制的基础上所形成的关系社会与权力的结合滋生了权力的腐败。     

论设区的市地方立法空间的释放

目前,设区的市地方立法在事项范围及对行政行为设定权方面,都存在空间过于狭小的问题,已造成地方治理所需法律规范供给不足、立法特色难以体现、抄袭上位法现象严重、细化成为多余等现实困境。必须从解决地方治理对法治规范需要和充分发挥地方立法积极性等初衷出发,努力释放设区的市地方立法空间。对立法事项的范围要全面扩展;对行政行为设定的立法空间要采取分类设置,通过一事一授权和精准授权方式实现地方立法空间的释放。要通过修改《立法法》等相关法律释放地方立法空间。同时,对立法权空间释放后的各种担心,要从理论上作出分析和解释,以扫清赋权中的理论障碍。     

Equal Contributions and Unequal Risks in a North-east Thai Village Funeral Society

Village funeral societies in north-east Thailand collect equal contributions from all participating households, even though some households are much more likely to experience deaths and receive money from the funeral society than others. The societies' use of the equal contributions rule is not an outcome of the asymmetric distribution of information on risks. It reflects, instead, an ambivalence over the relevance of expected returns, a willingness to subsidise fellow villagers, and the need to maximise simplicity and transparency to safeguard against mismanagement and corruption. The equal contributions rule is efficient, in that it leads to low administrative costs, has no clearly superior alternatives, and creates only minor adverse selection.     

The Incidence of Wife Abuse and Battering and Some Sociodemographic Correlates as Revealed by Two National Surveys in Palestinian Society

Over the past 3 decades, wife abuse and battering has become a major concern throughout the world. However, there is a serious dearth of empirical knowledge about different dimensions of the problem in the Arab world. This article documents the incidence of different patterns of abuse and battering as revealed in two national surveys conducted among Palestinian women from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Systematic random samples of 2,410 women and 1,334 women participated in the first and second surveys, respectively. The annual incidence of psychological, sexual, and economic abuse as well as physical violence are presented, and some of their sociodemographic correlates are discussed in relation to each of the two surveys. The limitations of the two surveys and implications of their results for future research and theory development are also discussed.     

Forced Civil Society? Associational Life,Philanthropy, and the Indianapolis Turnerverein in the 1920s

This study uses the case of a German American association in the 1920s as a historical case study to gain a better understanding of the integration of an immigrant group in American society. Philanthropy, membership recruitment tactics, and associational mission are used as analytical categories in the analysis of German Americans’ processes of assimilation against the background of the aftermath of the First World War and Prohibition. Philanthropy and associational membership provide a vantage point for studying dynamics of identity, assimilation, and integration. The study argues that the difficulty of transitioning from a membership of German origin to a membership of second-generation immigrants played a major role in the progressive membership decline of this organization. This study points to challenges of an ethnic-based membership association in maintaining its relevance within an immigrant community in the face major political, social, and economic transformations, while attempting to renew its membership.     

斯堪的纳维亚模式终结了吗？——论北欧国家的福利改革

福利社会的斯堪的纳维亚模式在许多年来被看成是"蒂特马斯典范"①,即对社会政策制度化再分配模式实施的范例.然而,最近的改革趋势对这一假设提出了挑战.除了诸如削减开支之类的规则变化外,其他的变化尽管很多,如1990年代制度设置和福利国家目标的改变等;尽管和十几年甚至二十多年前比,斯堪的纳维亚福利国家的特征弱化了,且该模式正在趋于欧洲化,但其主要变化仍只是对现有模式的局部修正,而不是完全趋同于欧洲社会模式,因而并不意味着这一福利模式的终结,它仍然还是独树一帜的.一些新因素的出现仅仅是欧盟内部福利模式发挥着作用的表征.     

The single transferable vote and ethnic conflict: The evidence from Northern Ireland

There has been a long-running debate amongst constitutional engineers between those who favour the proportional representation of parties (usually via PR-Closed List systems) and post-election power-sharing (Lijphart) and those who favour attempting to induce pre-election inter-ethnic ‘vote-pooling’ (Horowitz) as a more effective and stable method of governing divided societies. Less attention has been paid to the fact that other options are available. A leading candidate amongst these is the Single Transferable Vote (STV), a non-categorical ordinal ballot system that may be capable of combining the essential ‘fairness’ of proportionality with the centripetal benefits of some inter-ethnic vote-pooling. Northern Ireland is the only divided society with extensive experience of STV elections. This paper examines the empirical evidence before and after the 1998 Belfast Agreement by examining the operation of the electoral system at the Northern Ireland Assembly elections of 1982, 1998, 2003, 2007 and 2011. The main findings are that prior to the 1998 Agreement inter-ethnic vote-pooling in Northern Ireland was very close to zero. Afterwards (1998–2007) terminal transfers from the moderate unionist UUP to the moderate nationalist SDLP averaged 32 per cent (and 13 per cent in the opposite direction). Although most transfers clearly remain within ethnic blocs, these inter-ethnic terminal transfers are a change with the past and suggest that STV may be an appropriate electoral system choice for some divided societies.     

我国青少年法规范基本类型探析

当前,具有中国特色的青少年法律体系在我国已具雏形,这不仅体现在一系列附属性的青少年法律规范的规定上,而且也体现在专门性的青少年法的颁布和施行方面。本文拟就我国青少年法的基本内容和种类作一概要的分析,以为青少年法的理论研究提供一个清晰的界阈范围,并为保护青少年合法权益、有效预防青少年违法犯罪提供必要的实务参考。     

特许经营中的两个法律问题

特许经营主要涉及两个方面的法律问题,即纵向方面的反垄断规制和横向方面的对外责任的分担。前者表现在特许经营协议中的有关限制性条款,其必须经得起“合理性原则”的审查,否则,属于非法行为。后者表现在被特许人在经营中引起的对外责任,特许人是否需要承担的问题。