Secrecy and Self-Interest: When Mediators Act Deceitfully

3rd party intervention in interstate conflict is a common strategy for mitigating conflict and obtaining a final agreement. However, not all mediations are successful, leading to the development of a rich literature on the mechanisms which decrease the probability of failure in a 3rd-party intervention. Within this literature, some studies examine how a mediator’ behavior and incentives affect the result of the mediation. Virtually all these studies assume that the mediator is virtuous such that peace is the most desired outcome of a conflict for her. However, this study challenges this assumption and contends that a mediator can gain benefit from the conflict between disputants. If this benefit is adequately large to overcome the benefits of peace, then the mediator has enough incentive not to conduct the mediation toward a peaceful outcome. We develop a signaling game model to study this issue formally and test the proposed hypothesis empirically.     

Partidos políticos e innovación democrática: más allá de purezas y perversiones

This article aims to review the conceptual import of the term “political mediation”, to shed light on the analytical reach of indirect politics, whose scope of possibilities has been usually thought of as confined within the opposites of political representation and clientelism. An analytical exercise is put forth as a possible and tentative means not only to establish a vocabulary which may be more sensitive towards present time demands, but also to –in Bunge's words– initially allow for the reinterpretation of older symbols of our political vocabulary. Towards this goal, besides a linguistic and conceptual itinerary of the term “mediation”, each of the three analytical dimensions of indirect politics is developed, favoring dialogue with theories of representation, which channels into an analytical model we call the “cube of indirect politics”. The article ends with a brief case-classification exercise aimed at showing the displacement produced by the model in the understanding of given experiences in indirect politics.     

Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa

This article reviews some of the salient aspects of the controversy over capitalism and the fate of Russian peasantry, among the Russian Marxists and the narodniks immediately prior to and after the Bolshevik revolution. At issue was the characterization of peasant economies. The narodniks believed that neither marginalism nor Marxism fully captured the nuances of peasant agriculture and the economic system/systems that evolved out of it; neither the market model nor class analysis adequately described the allocative and distributive processes in such economies. While nineteenth-century narodniks stressed the role of institutions based in the village community, Chayanov's twentieth-century populism stressed the organizational dynamic of peasant households within an institutional framework. Accordingly, the economics of the Chayanovian interpretation are examined from an institutional and organizational perspective. Such an exercise, it is argued, lends more credibility not only to the narodnik agenda, but also to the peasantist model of development.     

民法总则民商主体界分的制度缺陷与完善思路

民法总则关于民商主体界分的整体制度设计因自然人与法人的不同而分别遵循了不同的逻辑标准,但都直接体现或隐含了“营利性目的”的内涵。民法总则民商主体界分制度在概念使用和标准贯彻上存在逻辑缺陷,进而导致实践中可能面临诸多难题。可行的完善思路是对商自然人的主体制度建构采取由基本法确立营业权和由单行法规定具体规则的方式;用“组织”作为主体概念统领“法人”和“非法人组织”;将商组织的具体制度纳入民法典专编或者商事基本法加以规定,并且在民商主体界分时采取法律判定与事实判定相结合的模式。     

我国涉“商业秘密”信息公开之反思——基于实证分析的视角

与一般的信息公开不同的是，涉“商业秘密”信息公开关涉到公民的知情权与商业秘密拥有者利益之间的平衡。此类信息公开制度的完善关涉到我国政府信息公开制度整体的发展，然而目前涉“商业秘密”信息公开在具体制度细节上存在一定不足，在体制上也存在一些需要克服的困难。以涉“商业秘密”信息公开的实证分析为视角，对此类信息公开过程中所遭遇到的困境进行贴合实际的分析与反思，并提出相应的完善路径。     

商品房认购书司法问题研究

商品房可谓日常交易中涉及的最为贵重的标的物，双方谨慎订立商品房认购书几乎成为商品房买卖中的必经程序。实务中，因房产市场价格波动及宏观调控政策等影响，认购书产生的纠纷层出不穷，因此商品房认购书性质及责任的研究对司法实践具有重要的意义。     

强制调解模式研究

通过搭建“强制调解的主导者”和“强制调解的适用阶段”两个维度所形成的框架，可以对强制调解进行类型化分析并提炼出四种模式。一国或地区选择何种强制调解模式，要受到程序正义理念、传统法律程序等因素的综合影响。基于我国实际，未来有必要引入司法性诉前强制调解模式，实现从程序保障提高、调解人适格和制裁措施到位三方面确保诉前强制调解优势的发挥，同时有必要对我国原有的司法性诉中强制调解模式进行改造，实现调解者与审判者身份的分离和调解程序与审判程序时空的分离，并在立法中明确赋予法官动态裁量调解启动的权力以及启动调解时应当考虑的基准。     

调解的正当性与正当的调解

调解与中国传统文化一脉相承,符合中国人和为贵的大众心理,因此,调解具有正当性,是中国人的自然选择。当前,调解作为纠纷解决的模式受到了前所未有的重视,但调解应坚持依法自愿和能调则调该判则判的原则,防止一刀切。     

人民调解工作方法与效果探究

长期以来,人民调解工作在解决纠纷、维护社会稳定方面发挥了不可替代的作用。特别是21世纪以来,人民调解工作通过创新发展取得了很大的成绩。然而民间纠纷数量巨大、纠纷千差万别,为人民调解工作的有效发挥带来了许多困难,但是人民调解工作的方式与方法并非没有规律可以遵循。在对民间纠纷进行充分分析的基础上,总结与梳理人民调解工作的基本方式方法,以提升人民调解工作的效果。     

论我国对招标过程中商业秘密的法律保护

商业秘密具有实用性,能给权利人带来经济价值。各国法律都对商业秘密进行保护。标底是商业秘密的属性常常被忽视。我国为标底提供了严密的法律保护,通过保护标底不受侵犯,来有效地规范招标过程中存在的不法现象。