“Because I am who I am and my mother is Scottish”: neoliberal planning and entrepreneurial instincts at Trump International Golf Links Scotland

Focusing on the establishment of the first European Trump Golf development – on the Menie Estate along the Scottish North Sea coast – the paper contends that neoliberal planning, understood as state interventions to allow individual entrepreneurs to realise their visions, reshapes both planning practice and the socio-ecologies governed by planning in problematic ways. Neoliberal mindsets here cause politicians to depart from previously established practices. The paper analyses how governance becomes tied up in questions of entrepreneurial freedom and with beliefs in the capacity of an individual entrepreneur to steer the fate of the region.     

陕西省广播影视监管中心全面综合建设简论

我国广播影视正处于模拟与数字、传统媒体与新兴媒体并存发展的关键时期,"三网"融合已在积极推进之中。"十二五"期间,我省建设架构合理、配置合理、功能完善、安全可靠的安全播出调度指挥监测网系统,把模拟的、数字的、卫星的、地面的、以及手机电视监测、移动监测、数字电影机监测等监测内容相涵盖,从科学性、功能性、实用性、未来发展等多方面出发,满足全省广播电视监测监管实际工作的需要,实现对广播电影电视及互联网播出技术和播出内容的全面监管是省监测中心面临的紧迫任务。     

The Fallout to the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan

The political fallout from the release of the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan in the Murray‐Darling is illustrative of the difficulties associated with reallocating water resources in this context. The response of Minister Burke has been somewhat predictable, with a resurgent interest in public subsidy of irrigation infrastructure evident. This article is used to examine the policy background to the Guide and critically consider further subsidy of irrigation infrastructure. The article concludes that infrastructure investment at the expense of the public purse will fail to deal with the problems at hand and generate a plethora of additional future problems.     

Centralisation versus regionalisation: Designing the Sixth National Mental Health Plan

In response to the recent Productivity Commission report into mental health, the previous Federal Government announced its intention to produce a new national agreement that lays the platform for Australia's sixth national mental health plan. It has been recommended mental health move to a more regional model of governance and planning, away from a centralised, top-down approach, partly in response to broader reforms affecting health care, and partly in direct response to consistent inquiry evidence that the mental health system remains in crisis. The past 30 years of mental health planning have been centralised. Successive national plans set a broad framework, with real decisions about mental health funding and service allocation made in the health departments of our capital cities. Will the next plan sponsor or inhibit regionality in mental health planning? This paper assesses Australia's historical approach to health planning particularly as it affected mental health and the costs arising. In learning these lessons, we propose the necessary ingredients to facilitate a regional, innovative, and effective approach to decentralised planning, for better mental health outcomes. We cannot afford to replicate the failed planning approaches of the past.     

联合国维持和平行动与后殖民国家建构(1980—2015年)

联合国是维和行动主要的组织者和实施者。冷战结束以来，西方主导的联合国维和的目标由维护和平逐渐转变为战后重建，并开始承担复杂的国家建构任务。一方面，维和给目标国带来了和平，维和人员的日常开支对目标国经济的恢复和发展作出了一定贡献。但是维和任务的速成性和维和经济造成的收入两极分化等因素，都对目标国的经济发展产生了消极影响。另一方面，维和人员的税收豁免权、维和人员与其他社会群体的收入差距以及由此导致的政府部门人才流失和腐败、平行行政部门的出现等都严重削弱了政府对社会的渗透和控制能力。不仅如此，维和人员税收豁免和收入两极分化显著地降低了民众的纳税意愿，使得逃税和抗税盛行，提高了征税难度。维和部队对于目标国政府军向民众单方面使用暴力采取的不干涉态度，也强化了社会抗税心理。所以，西方主导的联合国维和行动既缩小了目标国的税基，降低了官僚机构的效能，又打击了民众的纳税意愿，显著地降低了目标国的财政汲取能力。本文对1980—2015年126个后殖民国家的大样本统计分析表明，无论是短期还是长期，西方主导的联合国维和行动和后殖民目标国的汲取能力都呈显著的负相关关系。     

Like bringing a knife to a gunfight: Why IRC Section 2036 is not the right weapon to combat abusive family limited partnerships

Family Limited Partnerships (“FLPs”), which were once a great estate planning technique, have now become victim to Section 2036 assertions made by the IRS. Over the years, the IRS has struggled to find a means to combat abusive FLPs until the courts began to embrace Section 2036 as a weapon for them to use. Different courts, however, have maintained different rules and have now subjected both abusive and non-abusive FLPs to inclusion of their assets into their gross estates. This has shed light onto the main issue, that is, that Section 2036 is not the appropriate tool to combat abusive FLPs.