“发行方付费”模式下的信用评级法律迷局解析

信用评级机构在次贷产品评级中,丧失独立公正,其根本原因在于其＂发行方付费＂的收费模式。在＂发行方付费＂模式下,信用评级机构丧失了＂投资者付费＂模式下的声誉资本约束。危机后的改革并没有触动＂发行方付费＂模式。审视资本市场中的信用评级机构,发现其具有中介机构和准监管机构的性质,信用评级报告不再是一种媒体观点而是一种专家意见。因此,信用评级机构与发行方之间应是承揽合同关系,信用评级机构对投资者负有信赖义务,承担专家责任。     

死刑民意调查研究

目前,广大民众对死刑的支持仅是一种“感性的”认识。通过实证调查可知,文化水平的高低基本上不会影响人们对死刑支持率的高低,不同职业也基本上不会影响人们对死刑的态度。因此,那种寄希望于将来人们文化水平提高、社会精神文明程度的提高而使人们放弃对死刑支持态度的观点就显得不切实际。切实可行的做法是：以主张限制及废除死刑的学者为先锋,以政府及媒体为主力军,首先从大学生及中小学生入手加大对死刑的宣传力度与广度,使广大民众早日对死刑有一个全面的、正确的认识,从而使“民意”不再成为我国废除死刑道路上的障碍。     

Polls,coalition signals and strategic voting: An experimental investigation of perceptions and effects

Polls and coalition signals can help strategic voters in multiparty systems with proportional representation and coalition governments to optimise their vote decision. Using a laboratory experiment embedded in two real election campaigns, this study focuses on voters' attention to and perception of polls and coalition signals. The manipulation of polls and coalition signals allows a causal test of their influence on strategic voting in a realistic environment. The findings suggest that active information acquisition to form fairly accurate perceptions of election outcomes can compensate for the advantage of high political sophistication. The theory of strategic voting is supported by the evidence, but only for a small number of voters. Most insincere vote decisions are explained by other factors. Thus, the common practice to consider all insincere voters as strategic is misleading.     

网络舆论危机的生成机制探析

网络舆论危机既是公共危机的一种具体表现,也是引发一系列社会危机的重要原因。其生成机制主要有:网络舆论危机的暴发是社会冲突理论的现实反映;网络与网民的自身特性容易导致非理性声音占领网络舆论的主阵地;民主意识的增强与社会诉求机制的短缺导致网络群体极化效应;政府信息公开机制不完善导致网络舆论的蝴蝶效应;社会信用和政府公信力的下降为网络舆论危机的形成埋下了伏笔;基层党委政府应对网络舆论的手段薄弱导致沉默的螺旋效应。     

网络舆情事件的引导策略探究

互联网技术的快速发展和广泛运用,使得网络舆情的影响力越来越大,各种网络舆情事件层出不穷,并呈现出新的发展态势和特征,对政府的社会管理方式产生一系列重大而深刻的影响。当前应在剖析突发事件成为网络舆情热点原因的基础上,直面政府及其官员在应对网络舆情事件上的诸多困境,着力探寻有效引导网络舆情事件的基本策略。     

社会主义和谐文化建设的三个重要表现层面探讨

社会主义和谐文化建设,是一个包含多方面内容的系统工程。其中,形成良好的和谐文化氛围、营造和谐的舆论环境、形成和谐社会风尚等,是社会主义和谐文化建设的三个重要表现层面。我们应抓好这三个重要表现层面的工作,建设好社会主义和谐文化,为社会主义和谐社会建设服务。     

大众媒介对职工影响的现状与问题

大众媒介对职工群体日常生活和思想具有重要的影响,特别是随着互联网的日益普及,网络新媒体成为职工舆情表达的重要平台.但当前大众媒介对职工的影响存在三大失衡:职工对新闻媒介的满意度与媒介对职工的影响力不相称、工人新闻的数量与庞大的工人队伍不平衡、工人对新闻的需求与新闻媒介的现状还有距离.为此,应加大对职工群体的报道,充分利...     

Why are the highly educated more sympathetic towards welfare recipients?

Stigmatising stereotypes about welfare recipients play a crucial role in building public support for welfare retrenchment. Existing literature finds that the highly educated are more sympathetic towards welfare recipients. This is surprising given the economic advantage associated with educational attainment. Furthermore, educational attainment has increased even as sympathy for welfare recipients has declined. I address these puzzles using three decades of British survey data and find that it is the socially liberal attitudes rather than the economic advantage associated with higher education that explains why this group is sympathetic towards welfare recipients. These findings reveal an educational cleavage in stereotypes about welfare recipients, which is based on non-economic concerns, and has implications for support for welfare retrenchment and policies such as increased conditionality. This cleavage is weaker in more highly educated regions, implying that there are diminishing returns from increasing educational attainment in terms of sympathetic attitudes towards welfare recipients.