试论东盟与中国建立自由贸易区的动机

对东盟而言,中国经济的迅速崛起,特别是中国加入WTO,既是机遇也是挑战。一方面,中国与东盟之间双边贸易、中国对东盟的投资逐年递增,中国对东盟经济增长的拉动日益加大,而成立自由贸易区可以进一步强化这种双边经贸合作关系,促进东盟的经济发展。另一方面,东盟希望通过建立自由贸易区与中国依据各自的比较优势而进行分工与协作,进而避免在对外出口与吸引外资方面的直接竞争。     

选举诉讼体制比较研究

作为现代民主政治基石的选举,必然要求其过程与结果能真正公平和合法,选举诉讼制度作为选举的一项重要救济制度应运而生。目前对于选举诉讼的具体范围并没有定论,而且各国对选举诉讼管辖的规定也是多种多样。本文通过对以上内容的比较研究,对我国选举诉讼体制的现状进行分析,并提出完善的措施。     

经济全球化条件下的国企改革与发展

中国加入WTO标志着中国经济融入了国际主流经济,这将加快我国国有企业市场化改革的进程。国有企业在现代市场经济条件下有着特殊的职能、任务和特殊的利益,具有不可替代的特殊作用。但加入WTO后,对国有企业原有的优势造成了巨大的冲击。我国国有企业在经济全球化条件下,要加快战略调整,加快建立现代企业制度,培养一批具有国际竞争力的跨国公司。     

中止犯若干问题比较研究

由于各种原因,各国中止犯在立法方式、法律性质、成立要件及刑事责任方面差异甚大。我国有必要参照国外中止犯的相关立法与理论,采取中止犯与未遂犯混合规定方式并将预备中止犯非犯罪化,增设准中止犯,在采取必减免制的同时增加中止犯与既遂犯的转化性规定。     

比较优势与赶超战略

比较优势既然是贸易分工的基础,那么比较优势的变化必然会引起贸易分工格局的变化。经济“赶超”与比较优势的动态变化密切相关,包括“顺势赶超”、“逆势赶超”和“等势赶超”三种典型的方式。比较优势的逆转条件表明,后进国家很容易通过“模仿”活动实现“逆势赶超”。但这种“赶超”方式的经济效应,是对后进赶超国单方面有利,而对被赶超的先进国有害。先进国家最积极的反“逆超”策略是支持和帮助后进国家进行“顺势赶超”。这种“赶超”方式具有“双赢”经济效应。     

也是西风渐东土——《民法研究指引》的指引

《民法研究指引》一书作为日本民法研究方法的集成,在日本法学界受到极高重视,但此书诞生于20世纪末,其所介绍的论文写作方式与日本继受法学的阶段、司法实务以及学术研究的环境紧密相关。我国研究者借鉴日本法学的研究手法之时,应当立足于我国的学术生产方式进行功能性参照,发挥我国的后发与主体优势,将不同研究方式的功能进行精准定位,在凝聚研究共识、明确研究方向上深化努力。     

PTV gap: A new measure of party identification yielding monotonic partisan attitudes and supporting comparative analysis

Despite the cornerstone role of party identification for analyzing voting behavior in the United States, its measurement (in terms of the classic American National Electoral Studies – ANES – seven-point scale) is affected by a systematic problem of non-monotonicity, and it proved impossible to be directly applied outside the United States. We introduce a novel, complementary measurement approach aimed at addressing both problems. We test on US data (an expressly collected computer-assisted web interviewing survey dataset) a new, seven-point scale of partisanship constructed from PTV (propensity-to-vote) items, acting as projective devices for capturing partisan preferences, and routinely employed in multi-party systems. We show that a PTV-based (suitable for comparative analysis) seven-point scale of partisanship outperforms the classic ANES scale. Groups identified by the new scale show monotonic partisan attitudes, and the comparison of multivariate models of political attitudes testify significantly larger effects for the new scale, as well as an equal or higher predictive ability on a range of political attitudes.     

Targeting the Motivated? Ethnicity and the Pre‐emptive Use of Government Repression

Research on government repression often focuses on the comparison between states over time and provides little insight about the targets of repression within a state. This article unpacks government repression against different ethnic groups. It argues that non‐democratic governments use pre‐emptive and targeted repression against ethnic groups that are discriminated, strong, or have a history of protest or rebellion in order to prevent future ethnic rebellions. For democratic governments, on the other hand, the cost of pre‐emptive repression is too high. The article tests this argument in a quantitative analysis of government‐group dyads. It finds at least partial support for some implications of the argument: Autocratic governments use more repression than democracies against discriminated groups, but only when they are also weak, and against groups with a history of protest. There is little evidence that regimes of either type respond to previous violent mobilization or group strength with repression.     

Chapter 7. “Learn What You Like and Like What You Learn”

Abstract

Mark Twain once famously quipped, “I never let schooling get in the way of my education.” Paul Simon, the American folk singer, begins one of his songs “When I think back on all the crap I learned at high school, it's a wonder I can hardly think at all.” These men could just have easily been discussing schooling in Ireland, for this is the way many Limerick children and youth felt about formal school life prior to their involvement with St. Augustine's Youth Encounter Project. But it is prior to their involvement.

This chapter provides a demographic profile of the pupils of that project and explores aspects of the day-to-day life of the project as a child and youth care intervention by examining some of the influences of risk replacement or resiliency projects that have influenced provision of services. This Limerick YEP attempts to alter the approach from one that is risk, deficit, and psychopathology-oriented to one that is protection, strength, and asset focussed. A question posed is, “Has the early intervention enrichment programme assisted the pupils to reintegrate successfully within the community?” By reintegrate I mean the ability to attend a regular school, hold a job, live again with their family and such things. This chapter also explores the establishment of the Youth Encounter Projects in Ireland in the context of an important but largely overlooked study completed by Egan and Hegarty over two decades ago (1984). No official review has been published since.