努力完善县处级领导干部平时考核评价机制——基于H市的调研分析

县处级领导干部在地区经济社会发展中发挥着重要作用,加强对该群体的平时考核工作,有助于调动其工作积极性,促进优秀干部脱颖而出。H市县处级领导干部平时考核工作近年来取得了显著的成效,但也存在着诸如观念滞后、标准设置简单、指标设计不够科学以及考核结果运用不充分等问题。因此,应从明确考核内容、健全考核体系、创新考核方式及完善考核结果运用机制等方面入手,使平时考核成为考准考实干部的可靠依据。     

The Dismissal of Prime Ministers in the Asian Commonwealth: Comparing Democratic Deconsolidation in Malaysia and Sri Lanka

This article comparatively analyses processes of democratic deconsolidation in the Asian Commonwealth states of Malaysia and Sri Lanka by examining two recent constitutional crises in which the head of state dismissed, or attempted to dismiss, the serving prime minister during a parliamentary term. These episodes brought to a close fledgling reform movements that had obtained historic electoral mandates in both countries. The article discusses the Westminster-derived constitutional provisions concerning government formation as well as the distinctive features of political culture that animate those formal frameworks in the two countries. It is argued that while Malaysia and Sri Lanka possess the formal institutions of liberal democracy that notionally enable both pluralistic democracy and greater democratisation, their political cultures still have sufficient potency to be a counteracting force against the deeper consolidation of constitutional democracy. Democratisation therefore remains a work in progress in both countries.     

Some individual differences in perception of the evidence and the verdict choice

Abstract

For the last century, social research has provided evidence that contradicts the idea of objectivity in judicial procedure. As a result, research on jurors' potential bias has emerged. We propose an alternative to traditional jury, one in which social researchers collaborate with judges and lawyers, providing them with information on the juror bias. Legal authoritarianism is one of the characteristics of personality, which seems to be linked to juror verdicts. We present two studies, which develop a specific measure for this variable. The first study shows the relevance of legal authoritarianism as a variable to describe the psychological profile of juror-eligible respondents. The second study explores the relationship between legal authoritarianism and interpretation of the evidence, as well as the potential of this variable to predict verdicts.     

国际法案例教学的缘起与实践

国际法学教学中的＂个案研究＂或＂案例研究＂是当前法学教育尤其是国际法学教育的大势所趋。综观国内外的国际法教育教学的历史与实践,缘起于哈佛的案例教学大体有演绎法和归纳法两种形式。国际法案例教学符合国际法学原理的本质,符合国际法教学的基本规律,在教学实践中也取得了比传统教学模式更为优越的教学效果。国际法案例教学不同于英美法系的判例教学,在我们的法学教育教学中虽然非常重要,但还是辅助手段。     

党政领导干部“缘何破格”理论探析

破格选拔党政领导是我国干部选拔任用中极为重要的途径之一。长期以来,学术界和社会民众也就这一问题就行了某些探讨;这种选拔和任用方式在实践中也被广泛应用。但是,真正从理性视角来探讨破格选拔党政领导干部问题的研究相对较少,对其学理依据和现实基础的全面分析仍显不足,这严重制约着破格选拔干部在理论上的深化和实践上的深入。我们从科学内涵、学理依据和现实基础三个角度对破格选拔党政领导干部的进行了积极的理性思考,从而得出了"破格选拔任用党政领导干部是优化干部选拔的一条必然路径选择"这一结论。     

Selection of image features for steganalysis based on the Fisher criterion

A steganalytic feature selection method based on the Fisher criterion used in pattern recognition is proposed in this paper in order to reduce effectively the high dimensionality of the statistical features used in state-of-the-art steganalysis. First, the separability of each single-dimension feature in the feature space is evaluated using the Fisher criterion, and these features are reordered in descending order of separability. Then, starting from the first dimension of the reordered features, as the dimension increases, the separability of each feature component is analyzed using the Fisher criterion combined with the Euclidean distance. Finally, the feature components with the best separability are selected as the final steganalytic features. Experimental results based on the selection of SPAM (Subtractive Pixel Adjacency Matrix) features in spatial-domain steganalysis and CC-PEV (Cartesian Calibrated feature extracted by PEVný) features in DCT-domain steganalysis show that the proposed method can not only reduce the dimensionality of the features efficiently while maintaining the accuracy of the steganalysis, but also greatly improve the detection efficiency.     

遏制公选“考试专业户”的一点思考——从选拔流程的角度

"会考不会干"的考试专业户被选拔任用,给公开选拔领导干部工作造成了负面影响。文章从公开选拔流程入手分析了造成这一现象的原因,指出应处理好公平公正与选拔成本、传统方法与先进技术的关系,并从科学制定公告、改进笔试、改进面试、改进考察、运用现代人才测评技术等方面提出了对策。     

Contracting Out Parks and Recreation Services: Correcting for Selection Bias Using a Heckman Selection Model

Despite the growing scholarly attention on the efficiency rationale of contracting out, the empirical evidence to support claims that contracting out service delivery reduces service costs has not been forthcoming. Using transaction cost theories, this research explores park and recreation service provision costs across contractor sectors, controlling for the choice to contract out a service or not. The two-stage Heckman model indicates the importance of competitive markets and economies of scale in reducing transaction cost risk which local governments must face. This research also addresses how state and local institutional settings define the context in which policy decisions are made and implemented.     

Towards a Sociological Understanding of Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia

An upswing in labour costs and currency appreciation during the 1980s caused companies from more advanced Asian economies, such as Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, to search for new manufacturing sites in order to obtain lower costs. China was one of the main options for these outward investments, with its huge and rapidly growing market, plentiful, low-cost labour and vast territory. The literature on foreign direct investment has analysed the location strategies of multinational enterprises across national borders, but there have been fewer studies of location decisions by foreign investors within the borders of a single country. We examine how companies determine which location offers the best opportunity to establish an assembly-type manufacturing site in China. We surveyed 17 Taiwanese enterprises that have established this kind of manufacturing base in China, and found that the major factors influencing location selection are economics, politics, the cluster effect and bureaucratic efficiency. It was found that the eastern region, which includes Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, was considered better for establishing manufacturing bases than other regions.     

FROM COUNTY MAGISTRATE TO COUNTY HEAD: THE ROLE AND SELECTION OF SENIOR COUNTY OFFICIALS IN GUANGDONG PROVINCE IN THE TRANSITION FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC

Abstract

When China became a republic in 1912, the country’s core territorial units of province and county were retained intact. Continuity in the territorial architecture of state from empire to republic invites the question of whether provinces and counties were institutionally identical before and after the revolution. This paper explores adjustments made to the county level of government aimed at meeting republican ideals of good government and popular sovereignty. It probes changes in the roles assigned to county heads and the patterns of their appointment in Guangdong relating to educational qualifications, native places, and tenure over the transitional period. Employing magistrate tenure as a proxy for the stability of local government, the paper correlates variations in the length of tenure with other variables at the provincial and sub-provincial levels of government, including competition between different echelon levels, disputes between military and civil authorities, in-fighting among regime factions, and methods of appointment varying over time from appointment by administrative fiat to county-head elections. By relating these variables to longitudinal data on magistrates’ length of tenure, it identifies some of the challenges facing provincial and county authorities in trying to manage the revolutionary transition from empire to republic at the local level while keeping the inherited territorial system largely intact.