Book reviews

Author: SALIH, M.A. MOHAMED; African Democracies and African Politics; Reviewer: Liiso Laakso; Author: MOLYNEUX, MAXINE; Women's Movements in International Perspective; Reviewer: Katie Willis; Author: ATHUKORALA, PREMA-CHANDRA; Crisis and Recovery in Malaysia: The Role of Capital Controls; Reviewer: Anne Booth; Author: RUTHERFORD, BLAIR A.; Working on the Margins: Black Workers, White Farmers in Postcolonial Zimbabwe; Reviewer: Angela Cheater; Editors: DESAI, VANDANA and POTTER, ROBERT B.; The Companion to Development Studies; Reviewer: Philipp H. Lepenies; Editor: SCOONES, IAN; Dynamics and Diversity: Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa; Reviewer: Michael Stocking; Editor: CHANG, HA-JOON; Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: The Rebel Within; Reviewer: Barry Riddell; Editors: GUERRIERI, PAOLO, IAMMARINO, SIMONA and PIETROBELLI, CARLO; The Global Challenge to Industrial Districts: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Italy and Taiwan; Reviewer: Michael J. Ryan; Authors: PAYNE, ANTHONY and SUTTON, PAUL; Charting Caribbean Development; Reviewer: Jean Stubbs     

Toward a theory of induced institutional innovation

In this paper we elaborate a theory of institutional innovation in which changes in the demand for institutional innovation are induced by changes in relative resource endowments and by technical change. We illustrate, from agricultural history, how changes in resource endowments and technical change have induced changes in private property rights and in the development of non‐market institutions. We also consider the impact of advances in social science knowledge and of cultural endowments on the supply of institutional change. In a final section we present the elements of a model of institutional innovation that maps the relationships among resource endowments, cultural endowments, technology, and institutions.     

广西北部湾经济区全面开放开发：成就、做法及经验

2006年尤其是2008年广西北部湾经济区全面开放开发上升为国家发展战略以来,基础设施建设、重大产业发展、对外开放合作和深化改革等各项工作都取得显著成绩,综合经济实力呈现强劲的增长势头,成为全国区域经济发展的新亮点、开放合作的新高地。本文拟对广西北部湾经济区全面开放开发进行回顾,总结出9个方面的主要做法和5个方面成功经验,对全国各地开放开发具有重要启发。     

刑事诉讼专家辅助人出庭的观点争议及其解决思路

我国2012年修改的《刑事诉讼法》和《民事诉讼法》对“有专门知识的人”的规定相当简略,尤其是其出庭“适用鉴定人的有关规定”表述．不仅存在“有专门知识的人”是作为专家证人还是专家辅助人之争论．而且还引发是否有必要界定为中立的鉴定人诉讼地位之分歧。基于此．“有专门知识的人”参与法庭是否需要准入限制、法庭如何行使审查权限以及是否适用回避制度、其权利义务如何确定、如何在法庭上进行质证、其质证的效力如何以及在法庭上应安排何种位置等问题需要理论予以澄清．而理论需要结合我国司法制度与诉讼制度的要求及其功能作出具有规范意义的诠释．     

The Europeanisation of conflict: Reflections from a social movement perspective

If Europe is becoming a polity, then regular patterns of social and political conflict ‐ both institutional and non‐institutional ‐ will emerge between citizen groups and decision‐making authorities. Although we are beginning to have a substantial body of research on institutionalised interest group interaction at the European level, we know much less about non‐institutionalised forms of contentious collective action that have European policies as their targets. Using social movement theory, several varieties of such collective action can be identified. Based on the theory of political opportunity structure, it is shown why one of these forms ‐ actions intended to bring national states’ power to bear against European policies — appears to have a rich and turbulent future.     

The embarrassment of riches? A meta-analysis of individual-level research on voter turnout

Voter turnout has puzzled political scientists ever since Anthony Downs postulated the paradox of voting. Despite decades of research aiming to understand what drives citizens to the polls, the jury is still out on what the foundations of micro-level turnout are. This paper aims to provide a modest yet important contribution by taking a step back and summarizing where we stand and what we know. To this end, we review 90 empirical studies of individual level voter turnout in national elections published in ten top-journals during the past decade (2000–2010). Through a meta-analysis of the results reported in these studies, this paper identifies those factors that are consistently linked to individual level turnout.     

国内关于澳大利亚与日本关系的研究述论

近年来，我国学术界日益重视澳大利亚的外交政策和对外关系方面的研究，对澳大利亚与日本关系的研究也取得了较为丰富的研究成果，但也存在研究起步晚、层次低、研究领域狭窄、科研队伍不强等问题。本文通过对近年来我国学术界关于澳大利亚与日本关系的研究进行回顾和评析，并提出了加强相关研究的建议。     

Some common questions about participatory research: a review of the literature

This article reviews, through reference to the published literature, some key questions about participatory research. When should participatory research be used? How should participatory research be applied? What about quality of science in participatory research? Are there any institutional issues associated with the use of participatory research? And what are the benefits and costs of participatory research? The article is not a comprehensive literature review on participatory research, it is not meant to set standards for participatory research, nor to define what constitutes ‘good’ participatory research, but rather it seeks to summarise the realities of implementing participatory research, as discussed and debated by several published authors, and to provide some useful background for this special issue.     

论反垄断法对经营者集中的规制

依据《反垄断法》的规定，中国对一定门槛规模以上的“经营者集中”采用了事前强制申报的制度，并赋予反垄断执法机构直接处理的实质性权力，但许多细节和具体操作问题仍待补充。本文从审查原则、门槛设置、事前申报程序、审查标准、救济措施五方面，对经营者集中的反垄断规制提出了细化和完善的建议。     

30年来国内伊斯兰教什叶派研究述评

长期以来,什叶派研究没有得到国内学术界足够的重视。伊朗伊斯兰革命后,学者们出版和发表了一些有关什叶派研究的译著、著作与论文。20世纪90年代以来,这方面的论著开始大量出现。2003年以来,什叶派成为中东研究中的热点。截至目前,在历史研究,什叶派支派、教义、教法和宗教制度研究以及政治角度的研究等方面,出现了大量成果。然而,总体而言,国内的什叶派研究还相对滞后,广度需要拓展,深度需要加强。