Next generation engagement: Setting a research agenda for community engagement in Australia's infrastructure sector

The global infrastructure sector is thriving. But community opposition to major projects is also rising. Australian examples demonstrate the policy backflips, reputational pitfalls, and financial costs of project delays and cancellations. Failures to engage communities are surprising, given the widespread adoption of community engagement (CE) principles and the increasing professionalization of CE roles. If acceptance of the need for CE in infrastructure is more widespread than ever, why are we not seeing smoother project delivery, reduced protest, and cost savings? This paradox is the driving force behind the Next Generation Engagement project. This article offers a practitioners’ perspective to introduce the project and present key findings from its 12‐month pilot study aiming to establish a transdisciplinary, industry‐led research agenda for CE in Australia's infrastructure sector. The article contributes to our understanding of CE literature and research codesign. It maps out the top five priority themes for future research to support infrastructure selection, planning and delivery. The research agenda provides guidance for policy, and practice, offering consolidated, research‐based insights for policymakers and practitioners.     

The Commons: A Social Form that Allows for Degrowth and Sustainability

This theoretical article opens with the reconstruction of a value-critical argument which claims that capitalism is a form of society that is structurally unsustainable. The reason for this is the need for ever-increasing value production which stems from the core of capitalism (the commodity form, competition, profit maximization, private production) and its internal and external limits. Based on this, the article calls for a fundamental social transformation and positions the commons as a social form that has the potential to replace the commodity form as societal foundation. Constituted by social practices (commoning) that are based on voluntariness, autonomy and needs-satisfaction, commons do not have an inbuilt growth compulsion. Therefore, the article concludes, the commons may enable humanity to deal with the question of sustainability on the basis of social structures that include the possibility of a solution.     

Designing for equitable civic engagement: Participatory design and discourse in contested spaces

A common theme of research on participatory democracy and citizen engagement centres on the need for empirical studies that conduct a deep exploration of the nuances and complexities of these processes. This article offers a distinct response to this need through an examination of two ethnographic case studies of a participatory budgeting process in a multilingual, highly diverse community in which Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants were involved. By analyzing participants discourse from the case studies, the findings highlight the risks and rewards of reframing participatory processes as design decisions rather than static procedures.     

环境公益诉权及其程序保障——以检察机关提起环境公益诉讼为视角

实践表明,我国保护环境的传统模式即行政执法方式是失灵的。当前,探索司法介入环境保护的新模式是必要的,而环境司法的首要问题就是环境公益诉权的问题。根据我国实际情况,赋予检察机关环境公益诉权不仅是必要的,而且是可行的。同时,还要探索检察机关在提起环境公益诉讼过程中的诉讼地位、处分权的规制、证明责任的分配、诉讼时效等程序机制,以达到既保障且诉权、又加以合理规制的目的。     

多位思索与深度检视:社区矫正制度研究综述——以2003-2010年CNKI期刊数据库的相关文献为素材

社区矫正是在20世纪70年代兴起于欧美国家的一种非监禁刑,我国于2003年开始此项制度的试点。作为对实践的回应,我国理论界从理论基础、主体、适用范围、意义、模式、实践效果、问题、对策与域外实践等诸多角度对社区矫正展开了思考与探讨,部分学者所谈及的社区矫正的不可行性研究、未成年罪犯的社区矫正、社区矫正的社会参与等具有进一步探究的价值。     

民事诉讼的价值取向——公平与效率的权衡

本文认为 ,公平与效率是民事诉讼法设计与操作中恒久存在并冲突着的基本价值目标 ,其所描述和反映的是诉讼成本资源的配置状态的不同方面。在特定的社会、历史、文化条件下 ,应将具有主观色彩和不确定性的公平目标同具有可预测性的客观效率目标有机地结合起来 ,探索两者的最佳平衡点     

违反治安管理行为概念辨析

“违反治安管理行为”在公安实践与理论中使用频率很高，学者对何为违反治安管理行为作出不同的概括，归纳起来有三种，但目前教材中对违反治安管理行为的概念及范围没有详细的理论阐述。其实，从认识问题的不同角度出发，通过对三种概念的剖析及其行为范围的界定，可以阐明各概念在一定范围内存在的合理性与价值性。     

学者钱钟书的读书与治学

钱钟书为中国现代文史大家,其读书、自学与治学的方法既成就其自身的学术事业,也嘉惠后学。钱氏读书与自学中虽兴趣广泛,中西兼顾,但也沙中淘金,择要而取;虽博闻强记,天赋异禀,但也手抄笔记,肯下硬功夫。在治学过程中,注重"瞥观疏记,识小积多",并持之以恒,终其一生。践行读书、自学与治学的方法与态度对于当代学者治学有很强的警示和借鉴价值。     

对网络党建推进中理论与实践问题的思考

网络党建是中国共产党适应信息网络社会发展的创新之举。网络党建既是一个实践问题,更是一个理论问题。必须认真规划好网络党建的顶层设计,寻求网络党建发展的突破口,采取正确的行动策略,推进网络党建深入持续健康发展。     

国际刑法学研究的困境与出路：以中国为基点的思索

在历经20世纪80年代中后期的兴起到90年代末2l世纪初的繁荣之后，我国的国际刑法学发展已经步入一个“茫然”的“停滞”阶段。称之为“停滞”，是因为我国当前的国际刑法学研究虽然从表面上看依然成果丰硕、欣欣向荣，但实际上已陷入空前的困境；冠之以“茫然”，是因为学者们至今仍然陶醉在中国的国际刑法学研究“形势一片大好”的喜悦之中，对于浮华之下所隐藏的危机似乎丝毫没有觉察。因此，在当前浮躁的学术氛围下，重新审视我国国际刑法学研究的现状，正视其间存在的学术困境，对于深化国际刑法学的研究、提升国际刑法学的学科地位、发挥国际刑法学的学科价值将起到积极的助推作用。