论行政复议中调解程序的优化

随着行政复议法实施条例的颁布实施,行政复议调解程序也相应地开始运行。调解程序是效率价值与公平价值最大程度的融合与体现,有助于实现个体自由与公共秩序的有机结合,渗透了个体权利与行政权力的共同归属。为了使调解程序高效运转,应该区分不同类型的案件并采取相应措施。     

监所管理与司法监督——法国经验管窥

在法国,监狱和看守所的管理行为曾经长期被看作是"内部行政措施"而被排除在行政诉讼受案范围之外。然而,1995年来,为了加强对罪犯和犯罪嫌疑人这一特殊群体的基本权利与自由的保障,法国行政法院开始审查部分监所管理行为的合法性,并判处国家为狱政机关的一般过错承担赔偿责任。     

科层制属性和公共部门绩效:东南欧地区比较研究

行政合理化程度、经济增长率和公共部门绩效之间的相互作用,至少对于东南欧国家来说,目前仍然是研究不足的代表性领域之一。它从本质上预先假定国家行政管理中的科层属性具有经济上的影响,这种科层结构在行政集中和动态性方面或多或少近似于韦伯行政结构。截至20世纪末,该领域的文献已经对这一主题进行了综合性研究,分析了超过全球35个国家的情形。但是东南欧各国没有包含在这些研究中。在此背景下,论文旨在对东南欧各国,尤其是巴尔干地区国家进行理论和实证研究的比较,以确定科层制属性、经济增长和治理绩效之间的相互关系。这一研究方法——"经济性科层制分析"适应于论文的研究目标,并且由"竞争性工资、内部晋升和职业稳定性、功绩性聘任"组成,其内容建立在韦伯的行政合理化原则基础之上的。论文的社会学调查在4个东南欧洲国家进行:罗马尼亚、希腊、保加利亚和克罗地亚,这4个国家是从125个相关样本中选取的,基于的标准是以上提到的国家在中央政府层面上严格的代表性水平。     

宗教活动场所治安管理初探

宗教活动场所的治安管理,是保障宗教事务及宗教活动的健康有序,保证宗教教职人员、信教群众和观光游客以及文物安全的需要,也是抵制境内外敌对势力利用宗教进行渗透和破坏的需要。作为社会治安的主管部门,公安机关依法对宗教活动场所进行治安管理是其职责所在。在西藏及拉萨,加强对宗教活动场所的治安管理对促进宗教事务和谐发展显得尤其重要。     

出入境情报信息工作的现状分析与对策思考

在公安出入境管理工作中,情报信息工作处于先导地位,具有低成本作用。公安出入境管理部门强化情报信息工作的对策主要有:提高对出入境情报信息工作的认识,形成情报主导警务的意识;明确出入境情报信息工作目标与工作重点,提高情报质量;建立符合现代警务机制的高效情报信息网络;建立情报信息工作考核奖惩机制等。     

现代行政的正当性危机——兼论现代行政模式的转换

行政裁量以及行政立法权广泛兴起,改变了行政活动的依据,抽离了原来行政活动寄托于法律之上的民主因子,打破了传统形式法治要求下的行政正当性基础。寻求现代行政正当性基础,必须要摒弃传统的单一行政模式,寻求新的行政模式以克服正当性危机。参与式治理模式为现代行政提供了正当性基础。     

Public Administration in Germany: Problems and Potential of a Fragmented Community

What is the discipline of Public Administration (PA) ultimately for? The German community has recently entered new deliberations on this recurrent question, with several papers and workshops addressing the present and future of their national discipline. This article uses original survey data to introduce the views of the German community at large and analyzes intellectual commonalities against a background of institutional fragmentation. It scrutinizes preferences for epistemological positions, research aims, and publication strategies, while also investigating potentials for cooperation through interdisciplinary exchange and theoretical or thematic concordance. The results show a community in intellectual crisis. Faced with fears of decreasing reputation and influence, German PA is still divided about its purpose and separated by disciplinary borders.     

Public Value in Politics: A Legislative Budget Office Approach

We use Legislative Budget Offices (LBOs) as both a lens and a test of “public value in politics,” a facet of Moore’s original framework that remains its most contested. We identify two public value roles for LBOs: (1) as a normative-advisory institution, and (2) as a mechanistic-costing one. Through Moore’s Strategic Triangle, we contrast the higher public value contribution of the advisory role, as manifested in the United States, with the costings role as manifested in Canada. Our findings suggest that LBOs enhance both democracy and efficiency and thus show how “public value in politics” can be achieved.     

American culpability: the Bush Administration and the Iranian nuclear impasse

Drawing on the memoirs of Hassan Rowhani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator (2003–2005) and newly elected president, this paper considers the impact of the Bush Administration's Iran policy on the internal politics of the Islamic Republic and the dynamics of its nuclear negotiation strategy. It argues that the administration had a detrimental effect on international nuclear negotiations with Iran and should be considered at least partially responsible for the current nuclear impasse. Identifying three key areas, it focuses on the administration's rejection of constructive engagement with the relatively moderate government of President Mohammad Khatami; the negative influence of the USA during Iran's nuclear negotiations with the EU3; and the administration's refusal to provide the Iranians with confidence-building incentives, or countenance unconditional nuclear talks, despite a policy change in Washington that was ostensibly multilateralist and gave the impression of directly engaging with the Iranians.     

State crimes against democracy in the war on terror: applying the Nuremberg principles to the Bush–Cheney Administration

This article asks whether, in waging war in the Middle East, the Bush–Cheney Administration developed and executed a conspiracy comparable to the one for which Nazi leaders were tried, convicted, and executed at Nuremberg after World War II. To meet the Nuremberg standards, such a conspiracy must include efforts to subvert the constitutional order. Today, scholars refer to these actions as ‘state crimes against democracy’ (SCADs). After explicating the Nuremberg standards, the article applies them to the Bush–Cheney Administration's ‘war on terror’. The conclusion reached is that evidence of a SCAD-driven conspiracy is extensive and certainly adequate by the Nuremberg standards to warrant investigations and trials.