人民代表大会制度的复合优势与合力效能

人民代表大会制度是我国的根本治制度,是国家治理体系的重要组成部分。我国的人民代表大会制度具有一系列显著的制度优势。在国家治理实践中,人民代表大会制度逐渐形成了党的领导、人民当家作主、依法治国"三者统一"的复合治理结构,从而形成了治理主体的合力效应,能够将制度优势转化为治理效能。同时,我们也应该看到,人民代表大会制度的治理效能发挥还需要在实践中不断发展。其中,选举制度改革、会议制度改革、人大预算监督职能、发挥联系制度的作用等都是很好的思路。     

制度激励与积极性治理体制建构——以河长制为例

全面推进河长制,是解决我国复杂的河流治理问题的重大制度创新,更是推进流域治理体系和治理能力现代化的重要举措。本文通过实证案例调研,认为河长制通过契约治理机制实现权力和责任的制度化分配,依托组织结构框架,将党政体制嵌入到河长制的组织设计,通过激励问责机制,实现治理责任和治理效率的诱因倒逼。河长制的治理逻辑可以概括为通过流域公共治理权责的制度化配置,调动多层级治理主体的积极性,形成高层党政部门立治、具体职能部门施治、基层群众和社会力量参治的制度化激励。调动积极性是最大的民主。河长制把中国特色国家治理制度的组织优势开发出来,建构出用国家制度激励各方的积极性治理体制,这就超越了学术界一直以来存在的“压力型体制”理论惯性思维。     

东南亚新地区主义及其制度转型的范式研究

东盟-体化进程的加快是东南亚新地区主义发展的一项重要成果,目前对东南亚新地区主义的研究主要是借鉴国际政治经济学的研究套路。东南亚新地区主义具有地区整合和地区离散的双重特征。东盟的扩大、经济一体化、冲突的管理和解决等,又使得新地区主义具有制度转型的特征。东盟期望通过加强内部的文化认同和调适,在未来的全球竞争中更具竞争力。在这种背景下,进行东南亚新地区主义及其制度转型的范式研究就显得十分必要。     

创新视角下的苏南模式

苏南模式是政府主导不断进行制度创新的经济发展模式。当前的苏南模式是以吸引外资为导向的工业化道路,FDI对GDP有强烈的推动作用,但在没有考虑本土创新能力前提对FDI的作用是否会高估,FDI对于创新主体——本地企业又会产生什么样的影响。本文通过面板数据模型给出了实证研究。     

农业税取消后的县乡政府改革与政府管理创新

取消农业税是落实科学发展观和正确政绩观,构建信用政府、亲民爱政府和有限责任政府的具体举措,是维护农村社会稳定的客观要求。要逐步拆并、整合现有县(区、市)乡(镇),合理配置机构、规范职能。循序渐进,稳妥实施,从减少人员编制,精简机构,提供动力机制和补偿保障机制着手,转变职能、理顺管理体制。     

A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis Relating the Hare Measures of Psychopathy to Antisocial Conduct

The present meta-analysis integrated effect sizes from 95 non-overlapping studies (N=15,826) to summarize the relation between Hare Psychopathy Checklists and antisocial conduct. Whereas prior meta-analyses focused on specific subdomains of the literature, we used broad inclusion criteria, incorporating a diversity of samples, settings, methodologies, and outcomes in our analysis. Our broad perspective allowed us to identify general trends consistent across the entire literature and improved the power of our analyses. Results indicated that higher PCL Total, Factor 1 (F(1)), and Factor 2 (F(2)) scores were moderately associated with increased antisocial conduct. Study effect sizes were significantly moderated by the country in which the study was conducted, racial composition, gender composition, institutional setting, the type of information used to score psychopathy, and the independence of psychopathy and transgression assessments. However, multiple regression analyses indicated that the information used to assess psychopathy did not have a unique influence on effect sizes after accounting for the influence of other moderator variables. Furthermore, racial composition of the sample was related to the country in which the study was conducted, making it unclear whether one or both of these moderators influenced effect sizes. We provide potential explanations for the significant findings and discuss implications of the results for future research.     

Réformes électorales et changements institutionnels dans un contexte de démocratisation. Le choix du scrutin uninominal sous la Troisième République en France

The article focus on the choice of the single member district voting system under the Third Republic based on an analysis of the parliamentary debates about three electoral laws (1875, 1889 and 1927). The aim is to study the interaction between the electoral interests of political actors, the stakes of democratization and the evolution of the political regime. We use the researches on democratization and electoral studies to question the consideration of context as a variable of analysis in electoral reforms. We demonstrate that the presence and the interweaving of the determinants of electoral reform depend on the context, which is preponderant in explaining the electoral system choice.     

国家治理体系现代化的制度样本——评析《重大行政决策程序暂行条例》

《重大行政决策程序暂行条例》是新时代推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的制度样本。它统筹协调处理行政决策所涉及的多种关系,以形成良法善治的制度合力。理论上,它对行政决策范围的界定、重大行政决策的判断标准、公众参与的模式、合法性审查的模式、行政决策的终身责任追究等方面进行了回应或取舍。制度上,它对适用主体、重大决策事项划定方式、创新和拓展公众参与渠道、专家库和专家信用体系建设等问题进行了回应与设计。     

Explaining the Prevalence of Illegitimate Wage Practices in Southern Europe: An Institutional Analysis

This paper proposes that the prevalence of illegitimate wage practices in Southern European societies results from the discord between the formal rules (formal institutions) and the socially shared unwritten rules that reflect citizens' beliefs (informal institutions). To evaluate this, a 2013 survey is reported on whether employers in five Southern European countries fraudulently evade tax and social security payments by paying employees a portion of their salary off the books. A strong association is revealed between the extent of wage under-reporting and the degree of institutional asymmetry across these societies. The implications for theorising illegitimate wage practices are then explored.     

Contracting in local public organizations: the institutional economics perspective

The institutional economics is one of the approaches to explain the utility of contracting of local public service provision. This paper described and critiqued the assumptions underlying institutional economics as it is used in organization theories. It also explains whether and why these assumptions hold in public sector organizations. Finally, it discusses implications from the institutional economics approach for the local agency. Local agencies taking new institutional economics perspective as the basis for its contracting decisions should take transaction risks and information asymmetry into account. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.