《循环经济法》之定位探析——兼与梁毅雄先生商榷

如果《循环经济法》定位不准确,将会成为以发展循环经济为借口,以环境资源为代价的污染大法。《循环经济法》主要属于环保法范畴,而不是经济法;是循环经济法律体系中的基本法、牵头法;《循环经济法》要软硬兼施,充分发挥基本法指导性和宏观调控的作用。     

WTO背景下的政府职能观

加入WTO ,加快了中国经济与世界一体化的进程。政府对经济和社会的管理在观念、体制和行为方式上需要做必要的调整。确立新形势下的政府职能观 ,改革和转变政府职能 ,必须遵循WTO规则。     

能力建设：应当重视的一个新的时代性课题

1978年以来,中国的社会图景发生了整体性的转变,这种转变把“能力建设及其对当代中国发展的意义”这一新的时代课题推到了前台。这就要求我们必须专门、全面和深入地研究能力、能力建设、能力建设的目标与方式、能力建设对当代中国发展的重大意义等问题,以及创立能力建设理论,并以这一理论为指导,围绕能力建设,从规律性上探索当代中国的发展理念、发展思路、发展途径、发展空间、发展力量、发展机遇和发展经验。     

Setting the Agenda or Responding to Voters? Political Parties,Voters and Issue Attention

Why do political parties prioritise some policy issues over others? While the issue ownership theory suggests that parties emphasise policy issues on which they have an advantage in order to increase the salience of these issues among voters, the riding the wave theory argues instead that parties respond to voters by highlighting policy issues that are salient in the minds of citizens. This study sheds new light on the selective issue emphasis of political parties by analysing issue attention throughout the entire electoral cycle. On the basis of a quantitative text analysis of more than 40,000 press releases published by German parties from 2000 until 2010, this article provides empirical support for the riding the wave theory. It shows that political parties take their cues from voters by responding to the issue priorities of their electorate. The results have important implications for political representation and the role that parties play in democracies.     

From Form to Function to Sustainable Solutions? Reforming Public Sectors in Low Income Countries: New Approaches and Available Evidence of “What Works”

The article reviews the evidence about success of public sector reforms in low and middle income countries, external support for such reforms, and recent ideas of how such support could be better designed and implemented. Enthusiasm for supporting public sector reforms has decreased over the past decade, and available data suggest that there has been little overall improvement. However, it also indicates that a small number of countries have significantly strengthened their public sectors over the past 10 to 20 years. The article then reviews five new approaches that have been proposed for better supporting public sector reforms. It looks at how they diagnose what has not worked and the implications of what should be carried out differently. Furthermore, it explores to what extent the available evidence of overall stagnation as well as of success cases fits with these proposed alternatives, to gauge to what extent they are likely to make a difference. The final section sets out the implications. Development agencies should seek to deliberately test a combination of the proposed alternative approaches, particularly in more difficult contexts, taking political feasibility as a basis and adding other elements. The urgency to make progress remains high. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Putting the Supplier in Housing Supply: An Overview of the Growth and Concentration of Large Homebuilders in the United States (1990–2007)

As housing production was ramping up in the 1990s and 2000s, some of the industry’s largest firms experienced remarkable growth primarily through mergers and acquisitions and the issuance of debt; the market share of the 10 largest firms tripled between 1995 and 2005. This article describes the role of financial firms in encouraging that growth and some of its consequences. Drawing on financial filings, news reports, investor analyses, and other relevant data, this article offers an overview of the relationship between homebuilders and investment firms, as well as a new explanation of the oversupply of housing in the 2000s. In doing so, this article seeks to bring attention to homebuilders as a missing feature in analyses of housing supply and housing markets, and proposes directions for future research.     

Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank's Anti-informality Practices in Kosovo

The World Bank has for over a decade tried to formalize the informal economy in Kosovo. However, local journalists and businessmen among others provide an alternative understanding of informality that problematizes the World Bank’s view and actions. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the constitution and the constitutive effects of the World Bank’s anti-informality operations in Kosovo between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s power analytics, the article claims that the Bank’s agenda, and the economic ideas enacted through it, does structure and shape informal economic practices on the ground. Yet this structuring involves two forms of misrecognition. As a result, informality is paradoxically constituted (in novel ways) and reconstituted through the World Bank’s imposed anti-informality agenda. The article concludes with a discussion of how this underlines the need for policy solutions that depart from liberal peacebuilding’s subject–object distinction to form instead around an acknowledgement of informality as emergent and transforming throughout international interventions.     

The Influence of New Technologies on the Visual Attention of CSIs Performing a Crime Scene Investigation

Currently, a series of promising new tools are under development that will enable crime scene investigators (CSIs) to analyze traces in situ during the crime scene investigation or enable them to detect blood and provide information on the age of blood. An experiment is conducted with thirty CSIs investigating a violent robbery at a mock crime scene to study the influence of such technologies on the perception and interpretation of traces during the first phase of the investigation. Results show that in their search for traces, CSIs are not directed by the availability of technologies, which is a reassuring finding. Qualitative findings suggest that CSIs are generally more focused on analyzing perpetrator traces than on reconstructing the event. A focus on perpetrator traces might become a risk when other crime‐related traces are overlooked, and when analyzed traces are in fact not crime‐related and in consequence lead to the identification of innocent suspects.     

广西大石山区推进社会主义新农村建设的若干思考

大石山区贫困县由于历史和地理等因素的制约,经济发展滞后,与发达地区相比,有较大的差距,党的十七大把坚持发展现代农业、繁荣农村经济作为首要任务,加强农村基础设施建设,健全农村市场和农业服务体系的决策,为大石山区社会主义新农村建设提供了理论指南和政策导向。在贫困大石山区建设社会主义新农村,各级政府应该以科学发展观为指导,以发展农村经济为中心。扎实推进大石山区新农村建设。     

基于循环型生态农业基础上的兰州现代农业模式构建

农业经济的落后已成为兰州市全面建设小康社会的主要制约因素。以发展循环型生态农业为切入点构筑现代农业新模式,实现农业内部各产业之间以及与之相关的其他产业间的互补与联功发展,是提升兰州农业发展水平,实现城乡统筹发展的必由之路。