累积投票制度探析

累积投票制度已为世界上许多公司广泛采用 ,作为一种股东行使投票权的制度 ,它在保护中、小股东利益方面起到了重要作用 ,而我国公司法中对此却无规定 ,实为缺憾。本文对累积投票制度作了浅显的探讨 ,以期对完善我国公司立法有所助益     

论南诏的民族政策

南诏是一个多民族集合体政权。其对辖地各民族的治策、移民政策和发展辖地各民族经济交流的政策,具有实用性、复杂性和灵活性的特点。南诏的民族政策,既巩固和发展了南诏的统治,也促进了云南及周边地区的社会发展和各民族的交往。南诏的民族政策也有局限性,主要表现在居于支配地位的白蛮和乌蛮贵族对其他民族进行压迫和掠夺。     

西部开发中少数民族民间文化资源的保护与开发--云南民族工艺村建设模式及思路研究

民族民间文化资源的保护、利用和开发将极大地促进西部边疆少数民族地区经济、社会、文化的进步和发展;同时,对少数民族在西部开发中的参与性发展和小康社会的全面建设都将具有现实意义。建设民族工艺村应是当前条件下实现少数民族民间文化资源保护与开发的一个有效途径。同时,民族工艺村建设可作三个层次———个体、社区、社会———和两种状态———静态的与动态的保护开发———的模式区分。建设民族工艺村过程中还有一些带有共性的问题值得注意。     

传统社会变迁与民族文化传承--以台湾泰雅人为例

传统文化变迁与民族文化传承,是民族学或文化人类学研究的重要问题。以台湾少数民族泰雅人为例,近百年来,他们彻底改变了原始农业与狩猎采集的经济,改变了传统社会制度,最终导致部落解体。但在发展旅游观光业时,泰雅人注重下一代的双语教学,开办了泰雅文化和语言课程,开展了传统技艺学习,以各种方式挽救传统文化,所取得的成绩和存在的问题具有一定的借鉴意义。     

推进民族地区文化体制改革

文化体制改革是民族文化发展的一项紧迫任务。民族地区文化体制改革要抓住机遇 ,理顺关系 ,发挥政府宏观调控作用 ,深化文化企事业单位内部改革 ,推进文化创新     

民族生态审美叙事中的隐喻交合功能

民族生态审美叙事的关键是科技隐喻与民族生态隐喻交合互动 ,它在正义性原则指导下可保证民族生存与文化具有可持续生存指标 ,一种吸收变革而不丧失认同性活力的能指 ,从而使人与自然及民族间的交往灵活地进行。进而 ,在科技隐喻与民族生态隐喻等“多重隐喻”的功能交合辐射的过程中 ,人类超越自身而形成把握实在意义的方式与前景 ,最终形成对科技导致的生态危机与民族冲突的超越。     

Candidates' Ideological Locations,Abstention, and Turnout in U.S. Midterm Senate Elections

Many spatial models of voting suggest that citizens are more likely to abstain when they feel indifferent toward the candidates or alienated from them. In presidential elections, previous research offers evidence that alienation and indifference affect individuals' probabilities of voting. We find evidence that indifference and alienation also affect the decision to vote in midterm Senate elections, a context not previously explored. These individual-level effects imply that candidates' ideological locations should influence aggregate turnout by affecting the proportions of citizens who feel indifferent toward or alienated from the candidates. Our aggregate-level analysis supports this (at least in contests featuring two previous and/or future members of Congress). Our findings underscore the importance of the electoral context for understanding citizen behavior and suggest that elections featuring at least one centrist candidate may be normatively appealing since they stimulate participation.     

Mexicans react to electoral fraud and political corruption: an assessment of public opinion and voting behavior

Despite various electoral reforms enacted in Mexico between 1988 and 1994, large numbers of Mexicans doubted the honesty of elections and the general integrity of their country's policy making process. Such doubts did not automatically lead, however, to support for opposition parties that called for greater democratization. Rather, voter preferences were largely dependent on judgments about the opposition's viability and competence. Widespread suspicions about fraud and corruption in Mexico did affect electoral outcomes by making it less likely that potential opposition supporters turned out to vote. Data are drawn from seven national public opinion surveys conducted in Mexico in 1986, 1988, 1991, 1994 (3 polls), and 1995.     

Dog Whistles and Democratic Mandates

Manipulative mixed messages from candidates to voters affect what governments are entitled to do in office. A party that wins an election gains a 'mandate to rule'. But there is a second type of mandate: a 'policy mandate' to enact specific policy proposals central to the winning party's campaign. Mixed-message politics in general can undermine policy mandates, and the use of 'dog whistle politics' - telling one group of voters one thing, while allowing or encouraging another group to believe another - makes the inferring of policy mandates especially problematic. Referendums provide only a partial remedy to dog whistle politics. Winning a clear policy mandate means forgoing dog whistle politics, despite the short term electoral advantage they may deliver.     

Police professionalism and cynicism reconsidered: An assessment of measurement issues

A hierarchical logistic model is used to analyze data on Three Strikes-eligible offenders in California and the counties in which they are sentenced. The analysis finds that discretion is widely exercised by elected prosecutors and judges in the administration of Three Strikes. Discretion functions as a “safety valve” and preserves some sentencing proportionality, but may also allow political concerns to influence sentencing decisions. A more conservative political environment is strongly associated with stricter application of the law. Consistent with racial threat theory, eligible felons are more likely to receive Three Strikes sentences in counties with larger Latino populations. However, the size of the black population has no significant effect. Higher unemployment rates are associated with more stringent application of the law. Prosecutorial and judicial discretion benefits offenders unequally. Controlling for legally relevant factors, black offenders are more likely to receive Three Strikes sentences, while younger ones are less likely.