Crime and crime trends in different urban environments

This is a study of crime and crime trends in different urban environments in Stockholm. The study is in two major parts. First, on the basis of a study of the factorial social ecology of Stockholm in 1980, the city is grouped into major urban environments, and thereafter the criminality in these different urban environments is studied cross sectionally for 1982. Second, the trends in crime in the city of Stockholm and its different types of urban environments are studied over a 20-year period (1968–1987). The findings show significant differences between types of urban environments in rates of crimes, offenders and victims, crime structure, and crime and distance. Also, the trends in crime were significantly different between different types of urban environments.     

"成长为宗教徒"——论藏族儿童宗教信仰社会化的模式与机制

藏族儿童是在其所属家庭——社区(特指小社区)——村落(或城镇)这三重同质性较强的环境中"成长为宗教徒"的。这三重环境中的宗教性环境与非宗教性环境及因素的博弈结果,是藏族儿童成长为宗教徒的关键。     

Ownership dynamics in local multi-stakeholder initiatives

The nature and dynamics of ownership are often neglected features of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs). Seventeen cases in four countries illustrate characteristics of narrow government or broad societal ownership and forces for change over time. Refinements to the application of Gaventa’s Power Cube are used to analyse such shifts from the perspective of invited and closed spaces for participation. Observations about ways in which stakeholder groups can create a more enabling environment for their collaboration are discussed. Sensitivity to sub-national conditions by weaving endogenous and exogenous forces appears to be crucial if MSIs are to be effective vehicles of choice for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.     

The Theory of Complex Organizations: New Trends in Organizational Studies

This paper establishes a general theoretical framework about the study of complex organizations (COs), analyzes the characteristics of the theory of complex organizations (TCOs), and discusses the new trends of TCOs through redefining the conception of COs and dividing the evolutional stage of organization theory (OT). The results show that, as the complex systems characterized by the global emergence, COs are the new forms of organizations when organizations evolved to a certain stage; the evolution of OT is a constantly inheritable and developmental process due to the interconnection and mutual promotion among the paradigms of OT. In addition, under the interaction of organizational research paradigm, organization and OT, OT gradually evolves to TCOs.     

Working On,Through and Around the State: The Deep Marketisation of Development in the Asia-Pacific

Abstract

This article describes an important new push by international financial institutions towards broadening and deepening capitalist social relations in the underdeveloped world in ways well beyond Washington Consensus structural adjustment or even post-Washington Consensus forms of institutionally-oriented “participatory neo-liberalism.” Described here as the “deep marketisation of development” (or simply “deep marketisation”), this process is attracting increasing resources that are formally allocated directly to private actors around states, while also demanding and promoting shifts in state form and function that relate to cultivating “enabling environments” for capital and facilitating “access to finance.” The article begins by conceptualising deep marketisation and placing it in historical and political context. The second section presents examples of deep marketisation in action in the work of the World Bank's private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation, in the Asia-Pacific. The article concludes by highlighting some serious concerns with the deep marketisation agenda.     

Power to make land dispossession acceptable: a policy discourse analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE), Papua,Indonesia

The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) in Papua, Indonesia, is a state-led mega-project to transform local agriculture through large-scale corporate investment in food crops and biofuels for foreign markets. The project has led to extensive land dispossession, accompanied by devastating social and ecological impacts. This contribution analyzes how discourse regarding food and energy crises has been employed to release land from customary tenure to a coalition of state, corporate and local elite actors. The interests of these actors have converged on the state-led mega-project to transform local agriculture through large-scale corporate investment in food crops and biofuels in the name of national food security.     

Deliberative qualities in televised election debates: the influence of the electoral system and populism

Abstract

Concerns are raised repeatedly about the quality of televised debates. Both a country’s electoral system and the presence of populist candidates have been argued to influence the deliberative qualities of these debates. By using an extended version of the Discourse Quality Index, this study conducts a content analysis of 12 televised election debates in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2015. Against expectations, results show that politicians in multiparty systems do not justify their policy positions more and are not more respectful in the televised debates. Rather, this study uncovers a clear populist challenge to key deliberative debate qualities across party systems. Left- and right-wing populist politicians adopt more positions without proper justification, and the presence of right-wing populists in the televised debates increases the number of disrespectful interactions, lowering the deliberative qualities of the televised debates in different electoral contexts.     

浅议生态环境与政治生态化

人类对自然和自身的不正确认识及盲目开发行为,导致了20世纪六七十年代全球性生态危机。生态危机的产生与发展成为生态政治运动兴起的动因和基础,推动了各国政治和国际政治生态化的发展。生态政治产生发展是政治生态学、政治生态化形成的前提和基础,政治生态化是生态政治发展的必然趋势和结果,是解决当前全球生态危机的不可或缺的根本措施之一,是全球经济、社会、文化、生态环境协调、持续、健康、发展的必然选择,也是未来政治发展的趋势之一。     

在WTO框架下建立中国-东盟自由贸易区的法律规划探讨

WTO对区域经济一体化(含自由贸易区)持肯定的态度并有关于货物贸易、服务贸易、发展中国家的优惠待遇等相对完善的规范.中国-东盟自由贸易区的建立应在泛中国自由贸易区的基础上,遵循WTO的义务,利用发展中国家的优惠待遇,在合理的时间内建立和运作.     

中国资产证券化的法律环境分析及立法选择

"资产证券化"是20世纪70年代以来国际金融领域最重要的金融创新。近年来,在中国实施资产证券化的呼声日益高涨。但是,就资产证券化的现实法律环境而言,在证券化基础资产的转移、SPV的设立和定位、资产支持证券的发行和上市以及信用增强等资产证券化的各个环节中,还存在诸多的法律障碍或者法律的空白。为消除资产证券化的市场需求与我国现行法律制度的紧张,必须尽快构建起一个既体现资产证券化的基本规律,又符合我国国情的资产证券化法律机制。