财政分权制度模式比较与中国的选择

经过对相关国家财政分权实践的考察,可以概括出财政分权的制度模式主要有两种,即对称型和非对称型。在当代社会经济发展呈现复杂化的现实背景下,两种制度模式存在融合趋势。基于特定的政治文化和国家体制等方面的原因,中国应该选择非对称型作为未来财政分权的制度模式。     

WTO：遏制腐败的外部推动力

我国已经加入了WTO ,必然会对传统体制下的政府产生有力的冲击。WTO规则客观上要求我国的政府必须由过去的无限政府转为有限政府 ,由神秘政府转向透明政府。同时 ,WTO规则还将推动我国改革行政审批制度 ,开放政府采购市场 ,打击地方保护主义。这些都将从制度的变革层面有力地遏制腐败     

新形势下推进依法行政的思考

依法行政是指行政机关行使行政权、管理公共事务,必须由法律授权并依据法律规定。依法行政要求各级国家机关必须依照法定的权限和法定的程序履行职责。一切政府机关都必须按照我国法律和WTO的规则办事。     

试论WTO透明度原则与我国行政公开制度的完善

作为WTO的成员国 ,透明度原则将对我国行政公开制度产生深刻的影响 ,我国现有的关于行政公开的零碎规定已不能适应WTO透明度原则的需要。文章通过对透明度原则的具体分析 ,提出以下措施完善我国的行政公开制度 :1、完善行政公开立法 ,为行政公开提供统一全面的法律保障。 2、建立与WTO贸易政策评审机制相对应的审议机构 ,推进贸易政策和立法的透明度与公开。     

透明度原则及其对中国法治的影响

WTO的透明度原则要求各成员方迅速公布其贸易法律规章和措施,并保证其贸易法律规章和措施的统一实施。中国作为WTO的成员之一,其立法和实践将受到WTO透明度原则的深刻影响。     

Privacy notices versus informational self-determination: Minding the gap

Privacy notices are instruments that intend to inform individuals of the processing of their personal data, their rights as data subjects, as well as any other information required by data protection or privacy laws. The goal of this paper is to clarify the current discourse regarding the (in)utility of privacy notices, particularly in the context of online transactions. The perspective is a European one, meaning that the analysis shall be geared towards the European Data protection framework, particularly the European Data Protection Directive. The paper discusses the role that privacy notices play under the European data protection framework today, summarizes the main critiques regarding the use of privacy notices in practice and develops a number of recommendations.     

New Trend in Economic Development

正THE 2013 Central Economic Work Conference,an annual tone-setting economic meeting attended by top Chinese leaders,listed six major tasks for2014:ensuring food safety,industrial restructuring,controlling debt risks,promoting coordinated development between different regions,improving people’s livelihood and deepening reform and opening-up.     

发达国家文化产业财政政策及对我国的启示

在文化发达国家,文化领域的繁荣无一不得益于政府的扶持,特别是政府财政政策的支持。经过长期的实践和发展,西方发达国家已经形成了一套完善、成熟的文化财政政策支持运作模式,其成功经验有助于我们进一步探索适合我国文化发展的财政政策,在后现代社会中占据有利位置,实现后现代经济的转型,即实现生产目标由无限制的开掘自然资源转向文化资源。     

Why Civil Society Cannot Battle it All Alone: The Roles of Civil Society Environment,Transparent Laws and Quality of Public Administration in Political Corruption Mitigation

ABSTRACT

Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from 1789 to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on institutionalism as an overarching theory, and the nascent literature on civil-society corruption nexus, the paper looks at the predictive capacity of civil society environment, transparency of laws and predictability of enforcement, and rigorousness and impartiality of public administration in political corruption. Using a four-step hierarchical multiple regression, results show that while civil society and its structure is a significant determinant of the level of political corruption, the introduction of transparency of laws and predictability of enforcement, rigorousness, and impartiality of public administration, and civil society environment in the regression model accounted for additional variance in political corruption. Practical and theoretical implications, particularly on civil society-corruption nexus and the broader corruption-democracy linkage, are discussed.     

Understanding the Accumulation of Local Government Savings: A Dynamic Analysis

Government savings can be a conundrum that perplexes taxpayers. Excessive savings indicate that taxpayers either pay unnecessarily high taxes, or they do not receive adequate returns on services. Insufficient savings leave government officials little financial flexibility. The Great Recession and its aftermath have renewed interest in understanding government savings. This article uses dynamic panel modeling to analyze the determinants of municipal discretionary savings. Results show that risk factors are the primary drivers of municipal savings, and high-risk factors have greater impact on the amount of savings. This finding confirms organization theory’s view of savings as a crucial buffer against risk.