Regulatory Commitment to Negotiated Agreements: Evidence from the United States, Germany, The Netherlands, and France

Negotiated Agreements (NAs) are arrangements between firms and regulators in which firms voluntarily agree to reduce their pollution. This article analyzes the institutional features that facilitate or hamper the implementation of NAs. We illustrate the analysis with case studies on the implementation of NAs in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. We find that NAs are implemented when regulators are able to commit credibly to the objectives of NAs. Institutional environments marked by fragmentation of power and open access in policymaking reduce regulatory credibility and thus hamper the implementation of NAs.     

加快农业结构调整步伐促进贵州民族地区经济跨越式发展

党的十六大报告高举邓小平理论伟大旗帜,全面贯彻"三个代表"重要思想,确立了经济、政治、文化等各项建设任务,把农业结构调整放在优先位置.这是今后贵州农村工作特别是贵州少数民族地区农村工作的重要指导方针和行动纲领,是贵州民族地区经济跨越式发展的必由之路.     

国有经济结构调整与制度创新

随着WTO的临近,国有经济结构调整与制度创新的问题已迫在眉睫."国退民进"应该说是国有经济结构调整的关键,同时要大力发展私有性质的民有民营经济,使广大职工成为国有经济结构调整制度的主体和真正的主人.     

盗窃虚拟财产的刑法规制

当前,虚拟财产的被盗现象比较普遍,由于刑法中对其规定的空白,导致了这种纠纷得不到及时有效的解决,一定程度上已经影响到了人们的学习、工作和生活。应当从盗窃虚拟财产国内外的立法现状入手,吸取国外的先进立法经验,弥补我国法律的空白的同时,在立法途径和司法途径两个层面做出具体完善,维护法律的统一性。     

不动产征收行为中“公共利益”的实现

我国现行法律法规中涉及到与不动产征收有关的内容,必然会阐明需要＂以公共利益为目的＂,然而,所谓的＂公共利益＂标准却无据可依。实践中,应将立法机关、执法者、听证程序三者结合来承担公共利益界定的任务,并充分发挥政府、市场和个人的优势,以保证公共利益的实现。     

Overview of: “Crime Place and Pollution: Expanding Crime Reduction Options Through a Regulatory Approach”

Research Summary Crime reduction policy has focused almost exclusively on offenders. Recent studies and evaluations show that expanding our policy portfolio to include places may be highly productive. We show that there is considerable research showing that crime is concentrated at a relatively few locations, that high-crime places are stable, that changing places can reduce crime, that displacement is not only far from inevitable but also less likely than the diffusion of crime prevention benefits, and that owners of high-crime places can be held accountable for the criminogenic conditions of their locations. We link these findings to environmental policy, where environmental scientists, economists, and regulators have developed a broad set of regulatory options. The core of this article describes a portfolio of environmental policy instruments directly applicable to crime places. We also discuss major decisions local governments will need to make to implement various forms of regulation, and we list challenges that governments must anticipate in planning for such implementation. We argue that a regulatory approach to crime places has the potential to lower the cost to taxpayers of reducing crime by shifting costs from governments to the relatively few place owners whose actions create crime-facilitating conditions. Policy Implications Taking a regulatory approach to crime places substantially expands the crime policy options under consideration. Regulatory options may increase local governments’ effectiveness at reducing crime while reducing governments’ costs. This is because regulatory approaches have the potential to shift some portion of the financial burden for crime fighting to owners of criminogenic locations. Policy makers can select between means-based anticrime regulations that focus on how place owners manage their locations and ends-based regulations that focus on the number of crimes allowed at places. Both of these approaches contain several alternative regulatory instruments, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Experimenting with various regulatory instruments could lead to the development of a range of new crime reduction policies. In addition, a regulatory approach has implications for the funding of policy research. Means-based regulatory instruments require governments to develop evidence that the means they regulate have the desired impact on crime. Ends-based regulatory instruments shift this burden to the regulated places.     

现代行政法学的建构与政府规制研究的兴起

早期行政法学普遍经历了从行政科学到法律科学的转向,而现代行政法学则从以司法审查为中心转向以行政过程为中心。发韧于20世纪六七十年代的政府规制理论为现代行政法学提供了一个强有力的分析工具,有助于革新传统行政法的概念架构和学理体系,建立起对真实世界行政过程有解释力的现代行政法学体系。     

民事诉讼当事人的不诚信行为及其法律规制

民事诉讼当事人不诚信行为之危害性不可小觑，法律规制措施不健全是该类行为屡禁不绝的重要原因，文章根据几种典型不诚信行为之特点，有针对性地提出了相应的规制措施。