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Since the early 2000s, the governments in ASEAN (the Association of South East Asian Nations) countries have developed ‘good agricultural practices’ (GAP) as public approaches to field-level quality assurance. Besides the primary goals of consumer food safety and quality assurance, these public GAP programs aim to support small-scale farmer inclusion in mainstream markets. This goal represents the antithesis of the prevailing trend that private GAP approaches have tightened integration with resourceful, large-scale producers in global value chains. This paper examines the compatibility of the goals of safety assurance and social justice in a public GAP approach through comparative analysis of Thailand's Q-GAP between two local contexts of fruit production and marketing. The research findings suggest that while the public GAP scheme could draw the participation of a broad cohort of local small-scale producers and serve to certify their production, its impact on changing producers' on-field practices and catalyzing their access to the global market through food safety assurance is limited. The binding factors include the lack of producers' understanding of the principles of the programme, limited additional economic merits for them, and the influence of extra-local market forces that stress economies of size and food quality rather than food safety.     

依靠法治满足人民对美好生活的要求研究

美好生活是人民对于高品质生活的理想追求,而法治则在满足人民美好生活方面发挥着至关重要的作用.要通过法治的平等原则确保人人拥有平等的人格、规定人人相同的地位以及赋予人人同样的法律机会,为人的尊严感的达致奠定基础.人民福祉是法治的根本目标,要通过法律制度来缩小收入分配差距、确保不同群体之间资源的公平分配以及地域发展上的互补...     

以构筑公平正义的劳动关系为着力点推动和谐社会建设

和谐社会构建的主要基础之一,是劳动关系的和谐。工会在构建和谐劳动关系过程中,具有重要作用,其基本途径是在协调劳动关系、解决其矛盾中,坚持公平和正义的原则。要以“发展为先,职工为本,基层为重,创新为魂”作为工会工作的理念。     

One measure cannot trump it all: lessons from NATO’s early burden-sharing debates

This paper calls for a qualitative turn in discussing NATO burden-sharing. The paper takes issue with the numerical burden-sharing narrative in NATO and identifies its two main problems. Despite being simple, the 2% defence spending pledge lacks other basic attributes of any contributory system: fairness and effectiveness. Drawing from concepts of distributive justice, the paper analyses NATO’s first burden-sharing debates and demonstrates that due to their qualitatively different capabilities, the allies agreed on an egalitarian ability-to-pay distributive justice. Furthermore, it shows that the allies refrained from implementing fairness in terms of a one-size-fits-all formula, since this simple numerical approach could not produce fair and effective burden-sharing at the same time. Rather, they developed a dynamic framework for optimal sharing. These formative burden-sharing debates provide valuable lessons learned for the current build-up of NATO’s posture: less focused on formal sharing, more concerned with strategic outputs.     

The moment you decide,you divide: How politicians assess procedural fairness

Are politicians more rational decision makers than citizens? This article contributes to the ongoing debate by examining how politicians and citizens assess the fairness of the process leading to a controversial policy decision. It contains theories as to why it is tempting to match the favourability of policy decision with a fairness assessment of the preceding process, and how politicians and citizens differ in their approach to the task. Having derived three hypotheses, parallel scenario experiments are run in large samples of Swedish politicians and citizens, in which the outcome and fairness of a policy decision process are manipulated. As predicted, it is found that both politicians and citizens match the favourability of the decision with the assessment of the process, that these self-serving biases are stronger among politicians, and that policy engagement accounts for the group-level difference.     

论契约自由原则的发展及其动因

“契约自由是合同法的灵魂和生命。”它发源于罗马法,确立于资本主义自由竞争时期。进入20世纪后,随着其产生之社会基础的变化．各国普遍对契约自由给予一定的规制,以实现实质意义上的契约公正。从契约自由原则的兴起、确立及现代社会对其的规制,宏观把握契约自由原则发展的历史进程,并洞见其发展动因。     

公平正义与和谐社会建构

公平正义是社会主义法治的价值追求,是和谐社会的重要特征之一。实现社会的公平正义,是构建和谐社会的价值前提;实现社会的公平正义,是建构和谐社会的基本条件;实现社会的公平正义,必须进一步加强制度建设。     

新媒体环境下的新闻报道与司法公正

新媒体环境下,以网络为代表的传播新形式带来了新闻报道内涵与外在形式的变化,也使得媒体与司法的关系出现了新的特点。在网络媒体的报道下,司法审判更为引人关注,也面临更大的舆论压力和挑战。然而,在我国当前形势下,司法和媒体并没有根本的冲突,二者都是现代社会维护和保障人权的两种力量,所以建立良性互动关系是一种双赢的策略。在法律规范的前提下,司法和媒体更要受各自职业伦理的约束,媒体客观中立报道,司法谦抑应对。     

提高公安执法公信力 树立和维护法律权威

文章以社会主义法治理念为视角,阐释了提高公安执法公信力,树立和维护法律权威,是社会主义法治理念的体现和依法治国方略的保证,同坚持公平正义、执法为民、人权保障等紧密联系。而执法不公正、人权保障观念淡薄、特权思想严重、非警务活动过多、民警执法素质偏低等,则是当前减损公安执法公信力的主要原因;据此提出并论述了完善此命题的对策措施,诸如提高公安民警执法素质、追求公平正义价值、践行执法为民理念、规范执法程序公正和支持民警依法反暴制暴的执法行为等。     

论教育的公正性

本文从三个方面探讨了教育的公正性 ,首先根据历史上教育公正观的四种不同形式 ,界定当今教育公正性的理念 ;然后从义务教育的现状重点分析义务教育是国家(各级政府)的义务还是家长的义务?指出义务只能是国家的义务;最后从教育公正的重要性方面提出了本文的制度性设想。