The Paradox of Leviathan: How to Develop and Contain the Future European State?

Using a constitutional political economy perspective, we study the paradox of government (how a limited government can stay limited) and the different ways in which systems of law try to solve it. We then provide a tentative application to a possible European state and assess the relevance of some member countries' constitutional and administrative law, if they were both to develop and to contain this European state.     

失势的精英及其反抗--戊戌前后湖南新旧之争的政治学分析

本文论述了戊戌变法前后湖南维新运动中精英集团的分裂以及由此衍生的社会冲突状况.湖南维新运动是一个原本富有共识的官绅集团在民族危机面前自新和自救的努力.引起这个官绅集团分裂的直接原因是伴随着省政要员的更换和一批文化新锐的到来而出现的政治权力的重新分配,更深层的原因则是维新运动的急进尤其是科举改革的启动导致了文化权力以及与之相伴生的社会政治权力的急剧倾斜.在这个过程中被侵犯和面临被淘汰的旧精英于是联合起来,利用意识形态工具和各种实际措施对维新事业展开猛烈攻击.这个事例通常被用来说明湖南地域文化的特性,但从政治学的角度看,它呈现出更具普遍意义的特征.     

1978年宪法在人权保障中的主要特征及其作用

1978年宪法基本上保持了1975年宪法关于宪法权利和公民的基本权利规定的精神,恢复了一部分被1975年宪法所取消的195 4年宪法所规定的宪法权利和公民的基本权利,同时还规定了一些新的宪法权利,为1982年宪法关于宪法权利和公民的基本权利的规定奠定了法律基础。1978年宪法,在我国的人权保障事业的发展进程中,起到了承上启下的作用,其历史性地位不容忽视,其制度意义不容否定。     

Territorial government reforms at the time of financial crisis: the dawn of metropolitan cities in Italy

On 1 January 2015 a new institution, the metropolitan city, took its place among the Italian territorial authorities. Despite its incorporation in the Italian Constitution since 2001, the metropolitan city become a reality only when the national government carried out a process of reform and transformation of Italian territorial government by transforming 10 large cities into metropolitan cities and depriving other intermediate governments (regions and provinces) of their fundamental competences. This article critically reviews the activation of metropolitan cities and the reshuffle of Italian territorial authorities. It stresses the way in which this reform marks the shift towards a new phase of Italian regionalism, which is dominated both by a dynamic of recentralizing intergovernmental relations and by the resulting loss for provincial and regional governments.     

De-Europeanisation in Turkey: The Case of the Rule of Law

Abstract

This article investigates the political dynamics shaping the post-2010 ‘de-Europeanisation’ of Turkey’s judicial system, particularly regarding judicial independence and rule of law. The analysis suggests the limits of conventional Europeanisation accounts emphasising causal factors such as European Union (EU) conditionality and the ‘lock-in effects’ of liberal reforms due to the benefits of EU accession. The article argues that the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP’s) bid for political hegemony resulted in the reversal of rule of law reforms. De-Europeanisation is discussed in terms of both legislative changes and the government’s observed discourse shift.     

Thailand’s Deep State,Royal Power and the Constitutional Court (1997–2015)

ABSTRACT

This article challenges the network monarchy approach and advocates for the use of the concept of Deep State. The Deep State also has the monarchy as its keystone, but is far more institutionalised than the network monarchy accounts for. The institutionalised character of the anti-democratic alliance is best demonstrated by the recent use of courts to hamper the rise of electoral politics in a process called judicialisation of politics. This article uses exclusive material from the minutes of the 1997 and 2007 constitution-drafting assemblies to substantiate the claim that the Deep State used royalists’ attempts to make the Constitutional Court a surrogate king for purposes of its own self-interested hegemonic preservation.     

印度尼西亚宪政制度初探

印尼的宪政始于1945年通过的宪法,宪法历经1999年、2000年、2001年和2002年四次修正。印尼现行宪法规定了国家性质、政权组织形式、国家结构形式、公民基本权利与义务、国家机构等宪政制度。印尼宪政制度呈现出受传统观念影响较大、总统权力集中和军警影响政治发展的三大特点。     

基层群众性自治组织的宪法定位

基层群众性自治组织是依法设立的,由城市居民、农村村民通过民主选举、民主决策、民主管理、民主监督以实现居民自我管理、自我教育和自我服务的基层自治社会组织.它所具有的自治性、群众性、民主性、法制性、自律性和基层性的特征,使它与国家政权机关和其他社会组织区别开来,并在我国社会主义宪政建设中,彰显着作为发展社会主义民主宪政的社会基础,实施依法治国方略的基础工程,推动文明建设、构建社会主义和谐社会的重要力量等重大宪政价值.     

从民族认同到公民身份——现代民族国家的社会整合与多元稳定

现代民族国家的治理面对多元文化和全球化的双重挑战,实现多元社会的整合与稳定是民族国家必须面对的问题。哈贝马斯将其交往行动理论向政治哲学领域推进的过程中倡导话语政治与商谈民主。借用哈贝马斯对民族和民族国家的解读,解析公民身份与宪法爱国主义,有助于解决民族国家内部蕴含着的普遍主义与特殊主义之矛盾、共和主义与民族主义之张力。     

论建立宪法控诉制度的必要性

在我国现行宪法监督制度与社会主义市场经济和法治原则不适应的条件下,我国确立宪法控诉体制是必然的。同时,建立宪法控诉制度有利于提高公民和国家机关的宪法意识,有利于树立宪法权威,有利于完善我国的宪法监督体制。