弱势群体的权利保护问题研究

社会弱势群体的存在是任何社会都不可避免的,因而如何对待社会弱势群体也就成了任何社会都不能回避的重大课题。保护与救济社会弱势群体是实现社会公正和法律实质正义的基本要求,因而如何通过立法、司法来加强对弱势群体权利的保护,业已成为一个亟待解决的问题。     

Women and Asylum: A Particular Social Group

This note examines the judgement of the House of Lords in the cases of Islam andShah, particularly with regard to their conclusion that women in Pakistan who were victims of domestic violence and not protected by their state could qualify as members of a particular social group under the Geneva Convention, and therefore attain refugee status. The note considers the Refugee Women's Legal Group's Gender Guidelines for the Determination of Asylum Claims in the U.K. and discusses the problems faced by women who claim refugee status. Finally, the conceptualisation of domestic violence as a political issue and therefore a matter falling within the scope of the Convention issue is analysed. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

新时期社会利益结构的转型

当代中国社会规模巨大的阶层分化,实质是社会利益结构的转型,即从建国初期建立并维系了几十年的整体性社会利益结构向多样化的社会利益结构转变。这是一个关系着每一个利益群体利益得失的复杂问题。分析新时期社会利益结构转型的构成、特点与利益需求是党代表人民利益的必要前提。     

城市群：城市化健康发展的主体形态

城市群是区域经济活动的空间组织形式,是城市化发展的必然趋势和城市化的高级形态。在我国,城市群的发展和完善是推进城市化发展的主要途径。有必要确立城市群作为我国经济发展的中心环节,以城市群为主体形态推动我国城市化健康发展。     

Strategy of Chinese policy entrepreneurs in the third sector: challenges of “Technical Infeasibility”

Studies of policy entrepreneurs have become a staple of public policy research. Very few such studies deal with the circumstances of China. This paper aims to remedy this oversight by exploring the mechanisms of policy change in China. Using John Kingdon’s Multiple Streams (MS) Model, the author develops the “Technical Infeasibility Model.” The paper tests the MS model’s applicability to China by examining strategies put forth by Chinese policy entrepreneurs in the third sector. It considers how they may successfully promote change by using a strategy of proposing a relatively radical policy concept that is politically acceptable and technically infeasible to policy makers. To illustrate such a strategy, this paper considers a case of policy change involving Chinese urban vagrants. The policy on “Detention and Repatriation,” which was first implemented in 1982, was challenged following the Sun Zhigang Incident in March 2003. Shortly thereafter law scholars filed two suggestion letters to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee calling for a constitutionality review of the Detention and Repatriation System. Though it was “technically infeasible” to air such a proposal in China at that time, the State Council initiated action to abolish certain provisions of the Detention and Repatriation System. However, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee did not conduct a constitutionality review.

城市群:城市化健康发展的主体形态

城市群是区域经济活动的空间组织形式,城市群的形成和发展是城市化的高级形态。随着经济发展与城市化水平的提高,城市群的形成与扩张是城市化发展的趋势,并在城市化进程中发挥重要作用。在我国经济发展水平和城市化水平较高的地区,城市群的发展和完善是推进城市化发展的主要途径。今后,我们有必要确立城市群作为中国经济发展的中心环节,以城市群为主体形态推动我国城市化健康发展。     

中国国民群体意识与中华民族凝聚力关系考察

关于中国国民群体意识是“内聚”还是“内耗”,中华民族凝聚力强还是弱,这是一个学界长期争论的问题。通过群体交互行为的交叉比较分析,可以看出,中国人的群体意识强,中华民族具有很强的凝聚力是一个基本结论,但其作为社会整合的条件是脆弱的,它依靠的是外在的压力和内部绝对权威的刚性统治,只要外在压力一解除,绝对权威一辞世,动乱就有可能到来,权威和动乱构成平衡社会发展的两个砝码。     

世界经济区域集团化发展的理论分析及启示

区域集团化的原因在于:经济全球化和各国国内经济发展之间的矛盾运动;追求市场多元化,克服对单一市场的过度依赖;获得政治竞争优势.关税同盟理论表明,区域集团的贸易创造效应可能对世界经济发展有利,贸易转移效应可能对世界经济发展不利;大市场理论表明,区域集团能够促使规模经济形成,加剧竞争,提高管理和刺激技术发展,增进区域内直接投资;奥尔森的理论表明,区域集团会对成员国的各种特殊利益集团形成约束,促进各国经济效率的提高.区域集团化发展给我们的启示是:应以国家长期利益为重,树立均胜观;加强对内开放;加强与周边国家或地区的合作.     

David and Goliath in the poll booth: group size,political power and voter turnout

ABSTRACT

This article analyses how the presence of a dominant group of voters within the electorate affects voter turnout. Theoretically, we argue that its absolute size affects turnout via increased free-riding incentives and reduced social pressure to vote within a larger dominant group. Its relative size compared to other groups within the electorate influences turnout through instrumental and expressive responses – in both the dominant and dominated groups – to the degree of electoral competition between groups. Empirical evidence from a large cross section of German municipalities is in line with these theoretical predictions. The observed effects should be taken into account when redesigning electoral jurisdictions through, for instance, municipal mergers or gerrymandering.     

论中共中央政治局集体学习制度

中共中央政治局集体学习制度是一项重大的制度创新.本文剖析了新一届中央政治局从首次集体学习到最近一次集体学习以来23次学习的主要内容,论述了中央政治局集体学习制度的特点和伟大意义.