产权规则、责任规则及农地征用规则的选择

对于法律应该有一个正确的定位,即它仅仅是市场中影响交易的众多制度之一,我们要将市场的观念引入法律的领域,用效率的视角来考察法律,以期合理利用法律促进社会总体福利。在这方面,美国的许多学者在规则选择和适用领域做了有意义的探索和尝试。本文的目的就是对相关的理论做一个简单的介绍,并且以此为基础考察一下我国农地征用领域适用的规则问题。     

我国农产品质量安全区域化管理法制建设研究

农产品质量安全关系到公民多项权利,更关系到政治稳定、经济发展与社会和谐。对农产品质量安全实行区域化管理,打破传统的管理方式,实现结合区域实际情况进行有针对性的管理,将有效推进我国农产品质量安全保障工作。正是农产品质量安全区域化管理法制建设具有多维的法价值尤其是安全价值,凸显了对农产品质量安全社会公共利益的重要性。在农产品质量安全区域化管理法制建设中要以安全为首要价值、以社会公共利益为基本理念,有效推进我国农产品质量安全保障进程。     

试析台湾当局国家认同观与两岸政策

从国家认同观的视角看待台湾当局两岸统独政策,是研究台湾政治发展和两岸政治关系的一个重要课题;在"中国"国家认同观下,蒋介石、蒋经国时期形成了"两岸统一"政策;在"台湾定位"国家认同观下,李登辉时期制定了"两岸分治"政策;在"台湾"国家认同观下,陈水扁时期推行了"台湾独立"政策;在走向"一个中国"国家认同观下,马英九时期确立了"两岸终极统一"政策。     

我国妇女参政议政的历史变迁刍议

妇女解放是人类社会进步的重要尺度,而妇女参政议政则是妇女解放的高级形式。改革开放给妇女参政议政提供机遇和挑战的同时也为妇女参政议政开创了崭新局面,取得了令人瞩目的成就。新时期科学发展观的提出,进一步强调了妇女参政议政的时代诉求,我们必须按照科学发展观的要求进一步提升妇女参政议政的水平,让妇女真正起到"半边天"的作用。     

新一轮西部大开发需要建立良性循环的投融资模式

西部大开发战略实施以来,国家给予了西部大量财政和银行信贷的支持,但迄今为止,西部地区还没有建立良性循环的投融资体系,在新一轮西部大开发过程中,西部地区发展面临的最大难题依然是资金瓶颈。西部投融资如何实现从政府主导型开发模式向市场主导型模式的转变,事关新一轮西部大开发的成败。     

浅论刑事和解与刑法基本问题之关系

我国司法机关在对"刑事和解"进行摸索并取得不少成功经验过程中,既得到了一定程度的认可,同时也遭受着诸多质疑。我们认为刑事和解符合刑法的三大基本原则和刑罚的目的、功能,与我国"宽严相济"和"严打"等主要刑事政策也不相冲突,应作为一种新制度和新理念加以确立。     

Advancing measures of innovation in the United States

This paper introduces major themes addressed in this special issue, which is based on NSF's Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) workshop Advancing Measures of Innovation—Knowledge Flows, Business Metrics, and Measurement Strategies, held on June 6-7, 2006 near Washington, D.C. The first two sections describe the workshop and provide a brief background on R & D and innovation metrics. The last section introduces the papers. They are based on selected workshop presentations along with additional invited papers.

Economics of court performance: an empirical analysis

This paper proposes an empirical analysis of Spanish court performance using the economic approach. An econometric model will be estimated in order to answer two basic questions: (1) why some courts’ output it is greater than others? (2) Could courts produce a higher output using their actual resources? In addition it will be determine, by means of an analysis of variance (ANOVA), whether courts showing higher than average output have dictated resolutions with a higher reversal rate.     

Politics and Corporate‐Sector Environmentally Significant Actions: The Effects of Political Partisanship on U.S. Utilities Energy Efficiency Policies

This study assesses the direct, indirect, and total impacts of political partisanship on state‐level utilities' investment in energy efficiency. This subject is of utmost importance because energy efficiency improvement has become a linchpin in worldwide efforts to combat climate change and other environmental challenges. Analysis of data on 51 electric utilities nested within 31 U.S. states indicates that political partisanship influences utilities' energy efficiency policies. There is strong evidence that electric utilities in states dominated by the Republican Party are less likely to invest in energy efficiency than those in states governed by the Democratic Party. This finding suggests that political partisanship may be shaping the policy and regulatory frameworks put in place by state governments to incentivize or compel the participation of private‐sector entities' in environmental management and/or resource conservation.     

Domestic regulatory reform and transgovernmental networks: Brazil and China in the global competition regime

Developing countries increasingly participate in transgovernmental networks of global regulatory governance, but they do so in different ways. This article aims to provide an explanation for this variation for two of the major emerging powers in the world economy, Brazil and China, in their transition toward more active players in the global competition regime. Distinguishing between bilateral and multilateral transgovernmental networks and examining the domestic factors conditioning the transition of their national competition agencies from rule-takers to rule-promoters or rule-makers through these networks, the article makes theoretical contributions to the linkage between transgovernmentalism and the regulatory state. I argue that differing political needs and the incomplete process of regulatory state formation push domestic agencies to join transgovernmental networks, with a need for greater legitimacy steering the Brazilian regulators to multilateral networks and facilitating their transition from rule-takers to rule-promoters. The Chinese agencies' primary need for expertise rather than legitimacy, by contrast, led them to pursue technical assistance and cooperation via bilateral relationships. The Chinese approach has slowed its transition from rule-taker to rule-promoter where its norms and practices are aligned with the established powers. Such approach will further impede its transition into a global rule-maker in areas of competition law and policy where China's preferences diverge.