全球化背景下中国特色社会主义道路选择的世界意义

中国特色社会主义道路是在全球化进程中形成和发展起来的,目的是使中国在社会主义基础上实现现代化。这条道路的选择具有重要的世界意义:它为广大发展中国家提供了一种有别于西方的发展模式,为社会主义国家巩固、建设和发展社会主义提供了成功的范例,同时还向人类表明:社会主义是必由之路、社会主义优于资本主义,从而在国际共产主义运动处于低潮时期,展现了社会主义无限光明的前景。     

The wisdom of crowds design for sensitive survey questions

Survey research on sensitive questions is challenging because respondents often answer untruthfully or completely refuse to answer. Existing indirect questioning techniques address the problem of social desirability bias at the expense of decreasing estimates' efficiency. We suggest the Wisdom of Crowds survey design that does not pose a tradeoff between anonymity and efficiency as an alternative. We outline the conditions necessary for the technique to work and test them empirically. Moreover, we compare the Wisdom of Crowd estimate of a right-wing populist party's vote share to alternative indirect questioning techniques' estimates as well as to the official election result in the 2017 German federal election. Provided its conditions are met, the Wisdom of Crowds design performs best in terms of both bias and efficiency. We conclude that the Wisdom of Crowds design is an important addition to social scientists' survey methodology toolbox.     

Immigrant influx and generational politics: A comparative case study of Hong Kong and Taiwan

Studies have long shown the existence of an age gap in voting behavior. We argue that the influx of immigrants can influence the size of this gap. Young people can become more apprehensive toward immigrants than older people because of the former's greater exposure to more competition from immigrants in the labor market and susceptibility to anti-immigrant sentiments in society. The age gap in attitudes toward immigrants can carry over to vote choice. We illustrate our argument with a comparative study of Hong Kong and Taiwan. While the two societies share many similarities, Hong Kong has experienced a significantly larger influx of immigrants from mainland China. Based on two election surveys in 2016, we find a distinct generational gap in attitudes toward immigrants in Hong Kong, but not in Taiwan. The age gap in Hong Kong also manifests itself in electoral support of China-resisting political parties.     

Lingua franca fever: sceptical remarks

The policy push in favour of fostering a global lingua franca has shed overtly imperialistic underpinnings and been recast, but many of the same objections can be levelled at new attempts to justify an old policy. Efforts to explain the impetus towards linguistic uniformity through rational choice theory obscure the power dynamics behind choice of language in multilingual contexts. Invoking democratic engagement as a benefit of uniformity overestimates the role of linguistic diversity as a drag on participation and ignores more important forces. A focus on equality of opportunity and social mobility through lingua franca competence as justification for the policy reveals a shallow conception of equality and underplays the long-term consequences for non-lingua franca communities were equality of opportunity for individuals to be taken seriously. Finally, seeing the justice issues that arise out of competition between languages as one of ensuring adequate compensation to the losers underscores how thin is the conception of equality animating the approach; it purchases an inadequate level of equal opportunity for individuals at the expense of inequality amongst language communities.     

析外币债务判决中的Miliangos规则

法院地货币/违约日规则曾经被认为是英美法系外币债务判决中的基本原则,并且对很多大陆法系国家产生重要影响,这种状况一直持续到1975年英国上议院的Miliangos案才发生改变。Miliangos案以后的一系列案件将外币债务判决的Miliangos规则发展成为:法院可以用外国货币作出判决,或者按照实际支付日的汇率,折算成本国货币判决。在对Miliangos规则的确立、完善及其发展变化进行详尽阐述的基础上,可以对该规则进行有意义的评价和分析。     

能源立法模式与核心制度选择

拥有较为完备的能源立法是促进可持续发展与保障国家能源安全的重要制度基础。虽然就法律表现形式而言,我国的能源立法已初具规模,但就其内在逻辑关联与制度构建而言,仍有诸多问题有待厘清,因此制定一部统领整个能源法域的基本法已迫在眉睫。我国能源法应当在＂通则式＂、＂政策式＂和＂法典式＂为代表的三种国外能源基本法的立法模式中做出选择并应建立起包括能源规划、管理体制、市场监管、科技创新等制度在内的核心制度群落。     

低碳经济视阈下中国的可持续发展战略

该文指出,低碳经济理念的兴起缘于人们对能源安全和气候安全的重视,其实质是能源高效利用,核心是能源技术和减排技术创新、产业结构和制度创新以及人类生存发展观念的根本性转变,最终目标是保证人类社会具有长期持续的发展能力。面对低碳经济时代,中国的可持续发展战略在路径选择上要体现出新的内涵。     

收入风险与个人职业选择——基于风险态度的研究

本文采用"北京市企事业单位职工就业状况调查"的数据,对北京市国有部门和私人部门职工的收入风险、风险态度与其职业选择之间的关系进行了实证研究。结果发现:越愿意冒风险的个体,越不会选择去国有部门工作,这反映了风险态度对个人职业选择的影响;个人选择在国有部门工作,主要是考虑到收入、工作压力、社会地位、工作稳定性这四个因素;就我们的调查样本而言,只有受过较高教育程度(硕士及以上)的个体选择私人部门工作才获得了收入风险补偿。据此,文章提出了完善劳动力市场的政策建议。     

"轻罪提速"思考

本文旨在对"轻罪提速"机制之运行和其提出的合理性进行评析,进而阐释该机制本身的先天不足及其理论上遇到的一些问题。笔者认为诸如"轻罪提速"这类刑事司法改革必须具有合法性,而不能为"立"而"破",因此建议停止现有的"轻罪提速"的司法实践,回到刑事司法程序之"刑事简易程序"研究上来。     

中国特色社会主义生态文明建设路径选择

党的＂十七大＂首次提出建设生态文明,并对其概念进行了解读,从而掀起了研究生态文明的热潮。对马克思主义生态文明理论的研究既有理论发展内在逻辑的演进,又有现实的动因。进行社会主义生态文明建设的科学路径,首先是科学发展观的指导是推进生态文明建设的思想保障。其次,转变经济发展方式是推进生态文明建设的重点工作,抓住科技创新这一关键环节,以建设＂两型城市＂作为推进生态文明建设的重要载体。