论我国特色的城市化进程与城市犯罪控制模式的选择

我国城市化进程与我国经济发展的特点紧密结合,在治理城市犯罪时,必须采取传统的重点治理与现代心理防控相结合等手段。只有这样,我国日益多发的城市犯罪现象才能得到有力的遏制     

Three faces of political marketing strategy

The term strategy is appearing with great frequency in the political marketing literature. However, the concept of political marketing strategy has been criticized for being unidimensional, ill‐defined and neglecting the contingencies of strategy theories. This article argues that a minimal definition and a division of epistemological terms could respond to the outlined critique. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Question of Priorities: Candidate Selection in Estonian Political Parties

This article addresses political-party organization in Estonia, especially candidate selection. Its first objective is to describe the ways in which the main parties chose their candidates before the 2011 parliamentary election. A second objective is to evaluate those procedures in light of expectations generated by established theory. The focus is on two conditions: the institutional framework, particularly the electoral system, and the relative youth of Estonian democracy. The evidence confirms these expectations only partially, which suggests that an individual party’s ideological, organizational and strategic circumstances, in addition to structural and institutional conditions, are critical to understanding why it performs this basic function as it does.     

Primary Elections for Britain

The coalition's programme for government promises to fund 200 open postal primaries during the current Parliament, targeted at seats which have not changed hands for many years. The lessons from the two open postal primaries used in 2009 are that they will change the numbers and characteristics of those involved in choosing candidates, the criteria for selection and the type of candidates chosen. Much will remain unchanged. Primaries are unlikely to affect the controlling influence of party in the House. The limits to their number and duration will leave most safe seats unaffected and prevent the development of any new form of accountability. Primaries will provide some voters with intra‐party competition but inter‐party uncompetitiveness will remain the norm.     

当代大学生择业误区解析

在社会转型的大背景下,就业难问题早已成为中国学界和社会普遍关注的焦点问题。目前大学毕业生就业难的问题已经成为了中国就业问题的重中之重。解决大学生就业难问题的核心,不仅要在国家治理结构上对其现实的境遇做出有针对性的制度调节,还要求当代大学生树立正确的择业观。本文通过对当代大学生择业问题的个案分析,运用人业互择理论,提出了当代大学生必须客观地给自己定位,要有明确的职业规划和人生规划。     

中国特色社会主义渐进式民主及其路径选择

中国特色社会主义渐进式民主是基于民主发展规律和我国历史国情的战略选择，其中执政党的领导、市场经济的发展和民主化浪潮的兴起是其蓬勃发展的主要推动力量，以党内民主带动人民民主，以基层民主推进上层民主，以选举民主补充协商民主是其稳步实现的重要路径。在党的十八大胜利召开的历史背景下，重新审视这一具有中国特色的民主发展道路，对于我们继往开来推进中国民主政治建设具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

检察机关群众工作的现实困惑与路径选择

检察机关群众工作是实现法律监督价值的内在要求、重要方法和有效途径。面对人民内部矛盾和治安腐败问题交织情况下群众工作艰巨性的增加，思想观念和利益需求多样化带来的群众工作复杂性的加大，检察机关要从查找执法理念和执法实践中存在的偏差入手，夯实思想基础，改进方式方法，提高工作素能，完善检察机关群众工作机制。     

Emotions and Attributions of Legal Responsibility and Blame: A Research Review

Research on the effects of emotions and moods on judgments of legal responsibility and blame is reviewed. Emotions and moods may influence decision makers in 3 ways: by affecting their information processing strategies, by inclining their judgments in the direction of the valence of the emotion or mood, and/or by providing informational cues to the proper decision. A model is proposed that incorporates these effects and further distinguishes among various affective influences in terms of whether the affect is provoked by a source integral or incidental to the judgment task, and whether it affects judgment directly (e.g., by providing an informational cue to judgment) or indirectly (e.g., by affecting construal of judgment target features, which in turn affects the judgment). Legal decision makers' abilities to correct for any affective influences they perceive to be undesirable and normative implications for legal theory and practice are briefly discussed.     

An Examination of Jury Verdicts for Evidence of a Similarity-Leniency Effect,an Out-Group Punitiveness Effect or a Black Sheep Effect

Archival data from cases adjudicated by jury in El Paso and Bexar County, Texas, were used to test whether a similarity-leniency effect, an out-group punitiveness effect, or a black sheep effect (BSE; J. M. Marques, V Y. Yzerbyt, & J. P. Leyens, 1988) influenced jury decisions. Defendant ethnicity, jury ethnic composition, and strength of evidence against the defendant were coded for 418 closed noncapital, felony cases to test their impact on trial verdicts and sentence lengths. Results indicated complex relations exist among juror and defendant characteristics and their influence on trial outcomes. No support was found for any of the theoretical models as predictors of jury decision-making. Strength of evidence was the most influential variable for both verdicts and length of sentences. Case strength, defendant ethnicity, and jury composition were related to sentence lengths.     

Mediation as Signal

This paper analyzes mediation as a signal. Starting from a stylized case, a game theoretical model of one-sided incomplete information, taken from Cho and Kreps (1987), is applied to discuss strategic effects of mediation. It turns out that to reject mediation can be interpreted as a negative signal while the interpretation of accepting or proposing mediation is ambiguous and does not necessarily change the prior beliefs of the uninformed party. This asymmetry suggests that, in equilibrium, there is an excess of mediation.