新加坡少年司法制度刍议

经过60多年的发展,新加坡已建立起以儿童福利为导向的少年司法制度。在借鉴普通法系国家少年司法立法与实践的基础上,新加坡少年司法逐步形成了具有本土特色的体系与结构,并在未成年人保护与未成年人犯罪矫正上发挥着愈来愈重要的作用。其某些做法可为我国时下的少年司法改革提供一些难得的域外借鉴素材。     

新加坡生物医药产业竞争力:基于“钻石模型”的分析

新加坡的生物医药产业通过近30年的发展取得了举世瞩目的成就,目前已经成为亚洲最富有活力的生物医药中心之一.本文基于"钻石模型"的分析框架,从生产要素、企业规模与技术创新、产业集群、国际需求、政府政策和机遇等六个方面,分析了新加坡生物医药产业的竞争力状况,并探讨了生物医药产业在未来发展中可能面临的挑战.     

试析新加坡的中国新移民社团

伴随着20世纪80年代以来中国大陆、香港、台湾新移民的大量涌入,新加坡的中国新移民社团①应运而生并迅速发展,进而在新加坡的当地社会扮演重要角色。本文先简要描述了新加坡中国新移民社团产生的背景及其建立、发展的概况;随后分析了新移民社团的三个主要社会功能,最后探讨了新加坡中国新移民社团目前存在的问题并展望其未来发展趋势。     

简评《2010年新加坡国际仲裁中心仲裁规则》

通过介绍新加坡国际仲裁中心最新版本《仲裁规则》（第四版）,并将之与新加坡国际仲裁中心较早版本《仲裁规则》（第三版）进行比较,简要评述新旧版本之异同,指出该最新版本在功能和制度上虽具有一定的新意,但也有可能在实务中引出更多的问题。总体而言,该最新版《仲裁规则》更加突出地体现了新加坡国际仲裁中心管理案件的功能和仲裁庭自主进行仲裁程序之间的平衡,有望促进新加坡国际仲裁中心地位的进一步巩固。     

论新加坡的道德教育及对我国的启示

新加坡注重培育国民＂新加坡人＂的国家意识,弘扬民族精神;大力推行儒家伦理教育;注意多重德育方法的运用,法德结合,以法律促道德;构建了学校、社会、家庭三位一体的德育网络,在道德教育上取得了显著成效。我国可以借鉴新加坡成功的道德教育经验,并在道德教育的目标、内容、方法、途径等方面得到一些有益的启示。     

新加坡:2011～2012年回顾与展望

2011年5月新加坡大选,执政的人民行动党在大选中保持压倒性优势;新加坡政府推出系列措施解决高房价、物价上涨、外来移民等课题;经济增长4.9%,远低于2010年14.8%的增长率;外交上,加强与东盟各国的关系,积极参与东盟一体化进程,中国与新加坡各领域合作不断发展。     

新加坡经济转型与人才战略

人才是新兴经济体经济转型中的关键战略性资源。本文以新加坡经济转型阶段中的人才战略和政策措施为研究脉络,全面阐述其人才培养、引进和配套政策的主要内容。结合新加坡人才战略实施的市场条件和制度的可移植性分析,提出中国在借鉴新加坡人才战略模式上的制度适应性和政策建议。     

Political Finance Regimes in Southeast Asia: Introduction

ABSTRACT

The three articles in this themed collection investigate the interplay between political finance regimes and the quality of democracy in Southeast Asia. Andreas Ufen's piece on political finance in Malaysia and Singapore argues that the semi-authoritarian regimes in both states have blocked the reform of campaign and party funding regulations in order to keep their opposition in check. The article on Indonesia, authored by Marcus Mietzner, showcases the country's dysfunctional political finance system as a major hurdle toward further democratization. In their contribution on Thailand, Napisa Waitoolkiat and Paul Chambers show that weak political finance regulations have contributed significantly to the shallowness of Thai parties. Overall, the collection demonstrates that without meaningful political finance reforms, Southeast Asia's democratic stagnation is likely to persist for many years to come.     

Laissez-faire versus Strict Control of Political Finance: Hegemonic Parties and Developmental States in Malaysia and Singapore

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This article compares the financing of political parties and candidates in two Southeast Asian countries. In Malaysia, some political finance regulations exist only on paper, and political financing is for the most part not restrained at all. In contrast, the financing of candidates and parties has always been tightly circumscribed in Singapore. These different strategies, “laissez-faire” versus “strict control,” are the consequence of various factors. In Malaysia, the New Economic Policy has effected a close, often economically unproductive linkage between the state, the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, and business. The rise of businesspeople has resulted in the commercialization of competition within (the United Malays National Organisation. Additionally, increasing competition between the ruling coalition and the opposition has resulted in growing expenditures for electioneering in the form of advertisements and electoral patronage. The laissez-faire style of regulation has been compounded by the difficult-to-control practices in East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), where vote buying, electoral patronage based on the largesse of oligarchs, and obvious nonobservance of the rules have been typical. In contrast to Malaysia as a whole, the costs for parties and candidates are still relatively low in Singapore. As a cadre party, the PAP (People's Action Party) is relatively autonomous from private business interests, and intraparty competition is not commercialized; the developmentalist state is highly productive, and the ties between the state, the PAP, and business are not characterized by cronyism. Moreover, electioneering is not very commercialized because the opposition is still relatively weak.     

Perceptions and experiences of intrusive behavior and stalking within a culture

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Previous studies have compared perceptions and experiences of intrusive activity and stalking between countries and the present work compares subcultures within a single country. Singaporean women (89 Chinese, 69 Indian and 68 Malay) with similar age profiles completed a modified version of the ‘Stalking: International perceptions and prevalence’ questionnaire (SIPPQ). This contained measures of individual perceptions and experiences of a range of 47 intrusive behaviors, and a measure of stalking. Between the three ethnic groups, few differences were found in terms of how unacceptable the 47 intrusive acts were judged to be. The small number of differences identified related to courtship behaviors. Women across ethnicities reported largely the same experiences of intrusive behaviors, differing on just two of the 47 behaviors. This suggests that overarching national attitudes towards women are better determinants of the types of intrusive behaviors they are likely to experience, as opposed to their subculture. Finally, no differences were found in stalking rates between the three ethnic groups, but the overall stalking rate within the sample was high at 54.9%. This finding may provide impetus to increase awareness of stalking in Singapore, given that it was only recently criminalized in the sovereign city–state.