提升检察机关执法公信力的路径

检察机关作为国家宪法赋予职权的法律监督机关，能否在实际工作中履行好监督职能、有效化解社会矛盾，是促进和巩固执法公信力的原因和动力。提升检察机关执法公信力的路径，主包括三个层面：日常执法活动的规范化、涉检突发新闻事件的合理应对、公信力理念的强化及相关制度的完善。     

渎职罪的若干问题研究

我国刑法典专章规定了渎职罪,但是我国刑法典对于渎职罪的规定有一些不甚明了的地方,加之近年来渎职犯罪案件出现了一些新动向,为了能更好地遏制渎职犯罪,理论界一直在对渎职犯罪进行研究。然而,渎职罪中却一直存在着这样一些共性问题,如：渎职罪的主体认定问题、渎职罪中的一罪数罪问题、渎职罪的法定刑问题及徇私舞弊中的＂前案＂认定问题。这些问题一直困扰着司法实务界相关活动的展开,为使司法实务界能顺利进行反渎工作,本文拟对这些共性问题进行探讨,期望通过讨论能使相关问题得以解决,进而对司法实务界有所帮助。     

电子政务与干部评价体系的优化——以山东省青岛市为视角

本文分析了目前我国干部评价体系中存在的主要问题,认为电子政务的发展为干部评价体系的优化提供了契机。但电子政务只是一种辅助性的技术手段,干部评价体系的优化最终应取决于执政理念的更新。     

娱乐场所易成瘾药物滥用问题研究——以X市娱乐场所内易成瘾药物滥用现象为脚本

"易成瘾药物",又称易成瘾处方药,是指需凭医师开写处方出售,并在医师或药师指导下方可使用的能够使人产生依赖性的药物。该类药物泛指吗啡类镇痛药及某些镇静催眠类药物,如盐酸曲马多、磷酸可待因和地西泮(安定)等。"易成瘾药物"的滥用不仅危害滥用者主体的身心健康、家庭和谐,而且还极易引发其他违法犯罪行为。采用调查问卷、直接访谈等方式对X市娱乐场所内易成瘾药物滥用现象进行了实证研究,针对娱乐场所滥用易成瘾药物的现状及整治难点,提出了对滥用易成瘾药物的整治对策与建议。包括:对易成瘾药物的生产、销售、使用环节实施全程管控制度,立法及相关部门适时完善法律法规及部门规章,建立多部门、多警种协作联动机制,形成整治合力,对娱乐场所易成瘾药物的滥用现象进行综合治理。     

Managing Public Accountability: How Public Managers Manage Public Accountability

Accountability is of growing importance in contemporary governance. The academic literature on public accountability is fraught with concerned analyses, suggesting that accountability is a problematic issue for public managers. This article investigates how public managers experience accountability and how they cope with accountability. The analysis highlights a number of ways in which public managers do indeed “suffer” from accountability, although, conversely, most of the respondents were able to identify strategic coping mechanisms with which apparently problematic accountability requirements can be converted into practically useful procedures.     

Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia: the influence of historical legacies

Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption has recently become a subject of analysis, there is, however, no study that has addressed the role of the Communist legacy in the development of various aspects of corruption. This paper contributes to the debates through, first, disentangling the complex phenomenon that is corruption, and focusing on its three aspects: supply, demand, and the attitude of the population. Second, the paper also contributes to the literature on modern corruption by explicitly focusing on the role of the historical legacy in these different aspects of corruption. The study is based on several rich data-sets on corruption and on an original data-set compiled to measure the percentage share of Communists in various regions of Russia in the last decades of the USSR (1970s–1980s). The analysis presented in the paper uncovers different roles of the Communist legacies across the development of various aspects of corruption. By doing so, the paper contributes to the literature on historical legacies in general, on Communist legacies in particular, as well as to the broader literature on the causes of corruption in transitional societies.     

Democratization and the Disfranchisement of African Americans in the US South during the Late 19th Century

The disfranchisement of African Americans in the South during the late 19th century highlights the role that mass actors, in this case African Americans, can play as part of the enforcement mechanism to prevent elites from backtracking on democracy. This episode in US history further suggests that for democratic progress to be consolidated, vulnerable groups require sufficient economic and social power to defend their formal rights. Newly emancipated African Americans gained the franchise in 1870. They voted in large numbers for two decades. But at the turn of the century each Southern state introduced disfranchising measures. The article discusses the efforts of Southern political elites to restore the antebellum social and political order, and the reasons the national state failed to intervene to protect the rights of former slaves. Above all, the article explores the nature of African American resistance and its effect on the timing and course of disfranchisement. It also draws attention to the importance of African American resistance by comparing Southern disfranchisement with the little-known cases of attempted disfranchisement of African Americans in the antebellum North and early 20th century Maryland. The article concludes that the relative strength of African Americans in contemporary America makes another rollback of democratic rights unlikely.     

Party Size and Portfolio Payoffs: The Proportional Allocation of Ministerial Posts in Coalition Governments

Over 30 years ago, Eric Browne and Mark Franklin demonstrated that parties in a coalition tend to receive portfolio payoffs in almost perfect proportionality to their seat share. Even though this result has been confirmed in several studies, few researchers have asked what the underlying mechanism is that explains why parties receive a proportional payoff. The aim of this paper is to investigate the causal mechanism linking party size and portfolio payoffs. To fulfil this aim, a small-n analysis is performed. By analysing the predictions from a statistical analysis of all post-war coalition governments in 14 Western European countries, two predicted cases are selected, the coalitions that formed after the 1976 Swedish election and the 1994 German election. In these case studies two hypotheses are evaluated: that the proportional distribution of ministerial posts is the result of a social norm, and that parties obtain payoffs according to their bargaining strength. The results give no support to the social norm hypothesis. Instead, it is suggested that proportionality serves as a bargaining convention for the actors involved, thus rendering proportional payoffs more likely.     

构建科学发展制度机制的路径思考

党的十八大报告指出"科学发展观是中国特色社会主义理论体系最新成果,是中国共产党集体智慧的结晶,是指导党和国家全部工作的强大思想武器。科学发展观同马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、‘三个代表’重要思想一道,是党必须长期坚持的指导思想。"坚持科学发展观,就要把科学发展思想转化为刚性的政治经济文化等制度,提出构建与科学发展观相配套的制度机制,以确保经济社会实现又好又快发展。     

构建“两型社会”与环境资源纠纷的多元解决机制

健全和完善现行的环境资源纠纷多元解决机制,是当前创建环境友好型社会和资源节约型社会（“两型社会”）的基本要求。对我国环境资源纠纷的行政解决机制、司法解决机制、私力或社会解决机制的现状和缺陷进行反思,在此基础上,探讨如何完善环境资源纠纷的多元解决机制。