政绩观的扭转与绩效评估的推进

文章通过在我党执政过程中,政绩观由不自觉到自觉,由正面积极价值到反面消极价值,再由形而上学趋向科学等一系列起伏转变的描述,引发了对我国行政体制、选用人机制、文化管理等若干方面改革的思考;以对形而上学政绩观和科学政绩观的特征描述为基础,分析了它们存在的条件以及由前者转为后者的路径;通过探讨政绩观与绩效评估之间的关系,指出坚持科学的政绩观是开展绩效评估的前提,绩效评估的正确开展有助于科学政绩观的彻底确立,绩效评估本身则是一具有规模性前途的市场。     

我国治安行政教育与处罚相结合原则研究

教育与处罚相结合原则是具有中国特色的行政原则,深为广大人民群众所认可和拥护。然而,近年来教育与处罚相结合原则在现实治安行政执法中遭遇尴尬,原则的理论阐释存在误区和现有法律制度存在缺陷是问题产生的两个重要原因。系统探究解决问题的有效方法十分必要,以和谐法治理念完善法律制度、构建科学理论、指导管理实践是解决问题的根本出路。     

约翰·奥斯丁法哲学再探

约翰·奥斯丁是现代西方法理学中的重要人物,分析法学的创始人,以提出"法律命令说"而著名,他的法哲学长期以来一直受到人们的批判,这些批判主要来自于两大阵营:一是形形色色的自然法学家;另一是一些后起的法律实证主义者。这些批判影响巨大,以致遮蔽了奥斯丁法哲学的本来面目。其实,"法律命令说"并非奥斯丁法哲学的核心与标志,纵使人们批驳倒了"法律命令说",对奥斯丁的法哲学整体来说损害也并不大。奥斯丁的代表性思想是:倡导对法律进行分析性研究,主张建构起一般法理学与法律教义学,最终使法学成为一门科学。在众多的批判之下,奥斯丁的上述代表性思想不仅没有失去生命力,反而保持着旺盛的生命力,以致在现代西方法理学中,奥斯丁仍然是一个人们无法绕过的思想家。     

“统筹国内国际两个大局”之方法论解读

党的十七大提出的“统筹国内国际两个大局”的重要战略思想,是我们党在我国全面参与经济全球化、与世界的依存度日益加深的背景下提出的新的统筹理念。新的统筹理念强化的是要树立世界眼光,加强战略思维,善于从国际形势发展变化中把握发展机遇,应对风险,营造良好国际环境。从方法论意义上讲,新的统筹理念是贯彻落实科学发展观、促进经济社会又好又快发展的“根本方法”之一。     

Opposition Coordination in Singapore’s 2015 General Elections

Abstract

Recent political science scholarship suggests that when opposition political parties are able to coalesce into a united coalition against an authoritarian regime, they will perform better in authoritarian elections, and can more credibly bargain with the regime for liberalising reforms. Yet, most of this literature pays little attention to the variety of ways in which opposition parties cooperate with each other. Drawing on the literature on the bargaining model of war, the author sketches out a theoretical framework to explain how opposition parties coordinate to develop non-competition agreements. Such agreements entail opposition parties bargaining over which political party should contest or withdraw in which constituencies to ensure straight fights against the dominant authoritarian incumbent in each electoral district. The author then applies this framework to explain opposition coordination in Singapore’s 2015 general elections, focusing on the conflict between the Workers’ Party and the National Solidarity Party.     

Singapore’s 2015 General Election: Explaining PAP’s Resounding Win

Abstract

While Singapore’s 15th general election came about as expected, the ensuing results did not. In view of the opposition’s performance in the 2011 general election and the general sense that the ruling party had done well despite its performance being anything but sterling, the results were somewhat shocking. Even the leaders of the ruling party were caught by surprise at the party’s ability to garner 70% of the valid votes, 10% more than in the previous election. While many factors played a role, it was the opposition parties that lost the election rather than the ruling party that won it. Most of the opposition parties were rejected by the voters on grounds of not being worthy of support. The leading opposition party, the Workers’ Party, also suffered as many voters feared that it might perform too well to the detriment of the ruling party. In the end, the 2015 general elections strengthened the one-party-dominant state in Singapore and the quest for greater political representation was placed on the back burner.     

“Hand-to-mouth” citizenship: decision time for the UK Supreme Court on the substance of Zambrano rights,EU citizenship and equal treatment

UK benefit rules strip Zambrano residence rights, for UK national children and their third country national primary carers, of equal treatment entitlement. These rules are challenged in a case pending before the UK Supreme Court. This piece argues that Zambrano creates an EU-citizenship-based right to reside which necessarily entails equal treatment. UK national children in Zambrano families fall within the scope of EU law so are not prevented by the wholly internal rule from claiming equal treatment with EU national children in Teixeira families. And they are protected by equal treatment as a general principle of EU law, which requires equal treatment with other UK national children. The justifications for automatic unequal treatment put forward before, and accepted with alacrity by, the Court of Appeal, are poorly reasoned and ill-matched with the rules in question – most notably because Zambrano families may have strong connections with the UK. A CJEU reference is likely; a Zambrano right is the right to reside in the Union – it is the right to have EU rights. The substance of EU citizenship is at stake.     

Can General Strain Theory Help Us Understand Violent Behaviors Among People with Mental Illnesses?

Recent work suggests that violence among people with mental illnesses is not simply due to the symptoms and comorbidities that define mental illness. We further this work by examining the extent to which strains or stressors explain the link between mental illness and violence. Specifically, we apply general strain theory (GST) to a longitudinal sample of adults with mental illnesses to investigate the lagged effects on violence of several strain measures, while controlling for mental illness symptoms, substance abuse, past violence, and other key variables. Parental drug abuse from childhood and stressful life events across the life course predict violence in adulthood. In a prospective model, relationship strain from an earlier time period significantly predicts changes in later self-reported violence. The results shed light on the ability of criminological frameworks to explain violence among people with mental illnesses.     

论著作权侵权一般条款——著作权侵权与救济立法模式探讨

包括知识产权制度在内的法律制度是一个有机体系,其法律解释和适用应当在体系化思维的指导下进行。就著作权制度而言,基于著作权是一种民事权利,应当将著作权制度作为民法的一个有机组成部分来建构、理解和适用。在体系化思维指导下,考虑到著作权制度回应社会实践、发展和进化的需要,著作权制度应当从"具体规定性"逐渐过渡到"抽象规定性"的立法模式。就著作权救济制度而言,应当设立著作权侵权一般条款,同时,考虑到著作权制度明晰化和可操作性的需要,也应当就实践中已经成熟的著作权样态作类型化处理,并且将处理后的典型侵权行为以列举的方式规定在著作权法中。换言之,著作权救济制度应当采取"一般条款+列举式规定"的立法模式。     

民事审判中关于新的证据的理解与适用

本文试对民事审判中新的证据进行界定 ,对新的证据的审查判断、举证期限提出了自己的思路 ,将新的证据与“准新的证据”、新证据进行了比较分析 ,力图丰富新的证据的内涵 ,正确运用新的证据。