Governing Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction: The Case of Pennsylvania

Over the past decade, directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing enabled an unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) boom in many regions of the United States, including parts of Pennsylvania. This revolution has created serious concerns about the capability of existing institutions to govern important societal outcomes associated with UOGE. We present a conceptual framework for assessing key societal outcomes influenced by UOGE governance. In applying this framework to Pennsylvania, we discern certain institutional strengths that have allowed the Commonwealth to reap appreciable short‐term economic growth from rich resource endowments. We also find, however, that several institutional weaknesses have allowed costs externalized to the environment, public health, and community integrity to offset some proportion of those economic benefits. Likewise, we find that governance of UOGE in Pennsylvania has contributed to a bifurcated sociopolitical landscape wherein adversarial coalitions dispute the legitimacy of the industry and its governance.     

Between regulatory field structuring and organizational roles: Intermediation in the field of sustainable urban development

Recent contributions in the domains of governance and regulation elucidate the importance of rule‐intermediation (RI), the role that organizations adopt to bridge actors with regulatory or “rulemaking” roles and those with target or “rule‐taking” roles. Intermediation not only enables the diffusion and translation of regulatory norms, but also allows for the representation of different actors in policymaking arenas. While prior studies have explored the roles that such RIs adopt to facilitate their intermediation functions, we have yet to consider how field‐level structuring processes influence (and are influenced by) the various and changing roles adopted by RI. In this study we focus on the mutually constitutive relations between field‐level change processes and the evolving roles of RIs by studying the rise of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)/Local Governments for Sustainability, an RI serving as a bridge for sustainable urban development policies between the United Nations and local authorities. Using ICLEI as an illustrative case, we theorize four different processes of regulatory field structuration: problematization, role specialization, marketization, and orchestrated decentralization. We discuss their implications for RI roles in the field and further theorize the changing dynamics of trickle‐up intermediation processes as an RI gains power and influence.     

论通货膨胀

随着社会经济的发展，国内国际环境更加复杂多变，通货膨胀现象越来越严重。如何使通货膨胀率控制在可控范围并成为经济发展的润滑剂就显得越发重要。中国作为社会主义大国可以运用经济手段、行政手段、加强法制管理等方法进行综合治理，从而走出世界经济危机的阴影，实现经济的稳步发展，并逐步提高在国际事务中的地位。     

Understanding Migration: The Case for Public Administration

ABSTRACT

Migration has emerged as a key issue for governments in the 21^st century. While multiple disciplines address migration, the study of public administration has been slow to do so. Given the complexities of migration policy implementation, and the multiple levels of government involved, public administration can add significantly to the current understandings of the phenomenon. This article examines what is known on migration, what still needs to be understood, and how public administration can assist in understanding migration.     

Diversity in times of austerity: documenting resistance in the academy

What happens to feminism in the university is parallel to what happens to feminism in other venues under economic restructuring: while the impoverished nation is forced to cut social services and thereby send women back to the hierarchy of the family, the academy likewise reduces its footprint in interdisciplinary structures and contains academic feminists back to the hierarchy of departments and disciplines. When the family and the department become powerful arbiters of cultural values, women and feminist academics by and large suffer: they either accept a diminished role or are pushed to compete in a system they recognize as antithetical to the foundational values of feminist priorities of social justice. Collaborative work to nurture diversity and interdisciplinarity does not register as individual accomplishment. This paper considers the necessity of this type of academic work to further the vision of a society committed to the collective values espoused by feminism and other areas in social justice.     

晚清吏治的腐败与洋务运动的失败

晚清洋务运动时期，清政府为追求富强，花费巨额资金引进西方技术、设备、创办了一批近代企业。然而，由于整个官场吏治腐败得不到肃清，这些企业内部也相应存在着盲目决策、任用私人、管理混乱、贪污舞弊等弊端，使企业难以发挥应有的作用，最终导致洋务运动走向失败。这段史实，为在实现现代化过程中如何处理政治改革与发展经济的关系这一关键的问题，提出了重要的经验教训。     

执政党意识与执政意识辨析

执政党意识和执政意识是政党文化研究中两个重要概念,学界对这两个概念的界定还没有达成比较一致的看法。执政党意识和执政意识是两个不同的概念,两者统一于执政。执政党意识对应革命党意识、在野党意识、反对党意识、参政党意识;执政党意识的核心是长期执政,革命党意识的核心是使用暴力夺取政权,在野党意识和反对党意识的核心是民主选举赢得政权,参政党意识的核心是参与执政党的政权建设。执政意识是执政党意识的内容和表现形式,主要回答执政党"为什么执政""为谁执政""怎样执政"等具体性问题。     

能动司法:型构“善政”政治图景的司法哲学——从沃尔夫《司法能动主义》的民主与善政谈起

理性的司法制度应当排除行政及权力的肆意干预,但不应拒绝对国家政治生活方式的深刻思考。探寻能动司法的政治意涵,追求司法的政治愿景和保持司法内在规定性之间并不矛盾,司法的理性是对司法权的属性和司法技术的描述,而追求政治愿景则是表达了司法对文明秩序和国家理性政治生活的诉求。     

生态位视角下我国家族企业治理探讨

借助生态学中的生态位理论分析我国家族企业治理问题,是一个全新的研究视角.生态位对我国家族企业治理具有重要影响,在生态位理论的基础上,通过对家族企业治理中的生态位约束进行分析,可以发现和提出改善我国家族企业治理的新思路.     

信息披露的公司治理效应分析

信息披露是委托人和投资者判断公司经营状况、决定投资行为和分配激励效应的重要依据。是进行公司治理和科学决策的前提条件。在内部治理中，信息披露能够降低股东与管理层之间的信息不对称程度，是对管理层评价的基础等；在外部治理中，信息披露是建立有效市场的基石，它有利于投资者利益的保护，有利于提高公司价值等。为发挥信息披露的公司治理效应，应鼓励上市公司提升信息披露水平、提高信息透明度、建立信息透明度评价指标体系等。