The Structure of Government Intervention in African Agriculture

This article examines the determinants of various rates of agricultural subsidies (output, input, exchange rate distortions, and aggregate) using commodity-level data from eight African countries in the 1980s. Econometric results indicate that structural adjustment policies were more effective in reforming exchange rate distortions than in liberalising commodity markets. Output policies are determined within the national context while input subsidies are more responsive to commodity-specific conditions. Further-more, agricultural subsidies were strongly influenced by the degree of urbanisation and by the number of people per unit of arable land in a manner consistent with cheap food policy strategies.     

Reinventing the Hong Kong state or rediscovering it? From low interventionism to eclectic corporatism

Abstract

The low-intervention state of Hong Kong in colonial times did not originate from strong neo-liberal ideological convictions. It was an artefact of the colonial political configuration, a pragmatic governing strategy adapting to the political and economic needs at the time. Political changes, economic restructuring, divestiture and marketization of state institutions since the 1980s had brought a new state form after 1997. A new business and professional elite class, embedded in an eclectic corporatist structure, evolved and brought multilateral, ad hoc and particularistic bargaining, leading to more sectoral intervention after 1997. Fragmented state institutions nonetheless weakened state capacity, making it difficult for the post-1997 state to be highly penetrative, transformative or developmental.     

律师提前介入问题再探

为实现律师提前介入之立法意图 ,刑事诉讼法第九十六条关于律师介入侦查程序的具体时间应提前至犯罪嫌疑人被第一次讯问前 ,并应增加规定侦查人员有义务立即告知犯罪嫌疑人有聘请律师提供法律帮助之权利 ,同时将免费律师法律援助制度引入侦查程序。     

媒体介入对刑事诉讼的影响及坚持的原则

随着大众传播媒体的迅速发展,因其所具有的传播速度快、受众面广、公开及时等特点,已经越来越深入社会生活的方方面面。在刑事司法领域,媒体介入,特别是刑事侦查和审判阶段的介入,已然成为社会所热议的焦点和专家学者所研究的热点。媒体介入是一把双刃剑,在刑事诉讼活动中既能表现出监督司法机关诉讼活动、培养民众法律意识和法制观念等有利的一面,又能体现出阻碍侦查活动、妨碍诉讼活动的正常进行,甚至出现"媒体审判"等不利的一方面。必须通过重点分析媒体介入对刑事诉讼的影响,才能提出媒体介入刑事诉讼所应坚持的原则,以便协调舆论媒体与司法机关之间的关系。     

论警察心理危机及其干预策略

警察每天都在从事着高对抗、高危险、高应激的工作,随时有负伤或牺牲的可能。因此,他们所遭遇的重大问题或重大变化比一般人要多得多,承受的心理压力也大得多,更容易出现心理危机。警察心理危机干预,不仅关系到警察个人的身心健康、家庭幸福,而且关系到社会的稳定、和谐。从警察心理危机形成的因素及对策方面进行探析。     

论政府职能及其模式研究的历史脉络——走向引导型政府职能模式研究的进程

“政府职能及其模式”是政治学和行政学的永恒课题,因为,只要存在着政府,就必然存在着政府与社会的关系问题,而政府如何主动地处理这一关系,就是政治学和行政学长期思考的问题。如果用“农业社会-工业社会-后工业社会”的解释框架窥察,可以发现：农业社会的“政府职能”和国家职能是浑然一体的,不存在政府职能模式研究的问题;真正意义上的政府职能及其模式研究是与工业社会中管理型政府的诞生与发展相伴的,其中保护型和干预型的政府职能模式是管理型政府的两种典型化职能模式;随着“引导型政府职能模式”在后工业化进程中的出现,一场对引导型政府职能模式进行研究的热潮正在掀起。     

大学生自杀问题研究综述

近年来,学术界非常关注对大学生自杀问题的研究。学者们从大学生自杀现状、自杀原因及预防与干预机制等方面进行了系统研究和分析。从总体来看,现有的研究缺少实证研究、对影响大学生自杀的各因素之间相互怍用及影响机制的研究不足、缺乏高校学生工作与大学生自杀关系的研究等。     

论未成年人性犯罪的危机干预与预防对策

预防未成年人性犯罪、促进未成年人性道德成长是亿万家庭期盼的民心工程,因此本文从三个层面重点探讨未成年人性犯罪的危机干预与预防对策。     

论预防未成年人犯罪的基本原则

未成年人犯罪原因的多样性与犯罪治理本身的复杂性决定了预防未成年人犯罪是一项庞大而艰巨的社会系统工程.坚持保护、早期干预和综合治理是推进这一系统工程中应当遵循的三项基本原则.     

Intervention in the Emerging Multipolar System: Why R2P will Miss the Unipolar Moment

Abstract

With the rise of China and Russia, the international system is poised to shift from unipolarity to multipolarity. This article argues that this structural reconfiguration will have—and is having—a profound effect on the future efficacy of the responsibility to protect (R2P). The rise of R2P, we argue, must be situated in the context of the end of the Cold War and the ‘unipolar moment’ this heralded. The efficacy of R2P is predicated on the assumption that moral advocacy can influence liberal democracies to re-orientate their foreign policy priorities towards human rights protection. We argue that the emerging multipolarity will expose the temporal specificity of this strategy and, ultimately, weaken the influence of R2P.