Private regulation,public policy,and the perils of adverse ontological selection

What problems can private regulatory governance solve, and what role should public policy play? Despite access to the same empirical evidence, the current scholarship on private governance offers widely divergent answers to these questions. Through a critical review, this paper details five ontologically distinct academic logics – calculated strategic behavior; learning and experimentalist processes; political institutionalism; global value chain and convention theory; and neo-Gramscian accounts – that offer divergent conclusions based on the particular facets of private governance they illuminate, while ignoring those they obfuscate. In this crowded marketplace of ideas, scholars and practitioners are in danger of adverse ontological selection whereby certain approaches and insights are systematically ignored and certain problem conceptions are prioritized over others. As a corrective, we encourage scholars to make their assumptions explicit, and occasionally switch between logics, to better understand private governance's problem-solving potential and its interactions with public policy.     

Public Opinion Surveys and USA Foreign Policy Towards Latin America in the Second World War

In this paper, the roles of public opinion polls and agency in foreign policymaking are examined. Based on documents uncovered from the National Archives and Rockefeller Archive Center, this paper presents a more comprehensive picture of the history of public opinion surveys and the shaping of US bureaucracy in their relation to foreign affairs. Further, the paper contends that policymakers are interested in public views pertaining to foreign policy issues, but that private interests (serving their own interpretations of national interest) shape public views, using new techniques as guiding tools.     

Stages of PPP and Principal–Agent Conflicts: The Swedish Water and Sewerage Sector

The focus of this article is on public–private partnerships (PPPs). The aim is to both theoretically and empirically illustrate PPP agency problems in four PPP stages, as well as to identify potentially relevant solutions to the agency problems. The study employed a longitudinal case study of one PPP in a municipality in southern Sweden. Through an analysis based on interviews, observations, and documents, the study illustrates a number of agency problems faced by PPPs and highlights the importance of resource allocation, stakeholder management, and the creation of a common identity in reducing these problems.     

私营企业集体劳动关系预警指标体系研究

近年来,罢工、停工、示威等劳资群体性事件在私营企业内屡见不鲜,私营企业集体劳动关系正面临很大的挑战。而预警作为防范劳动关系危机发生的有效方式,对改善私营企业集体劳动关系起着关键作用。因此,应设计一套具有针对性的预警指标体系,提早介入防范危机发生,以期为企业和政府超前预控、正确决策提供一定的依据。     

小型个私经济和非正规就业组织工会工作探析

随着非公有制经济的发展和就业安置社会化,小型个私经济和非正规就业组织蓬勃发展,并吸收了大量城镇下岗待业人员和进城农民工等弱势群体的就业,对传统基层工会的组织设置和工作方式带来了考验。面对这一新形势,我国工会要顺应形势、与时俱进,以社区工会建设为依托,积极推进个私和非正规就业领域工会工作,提高工会组织的覆盖面,加强这一领域从业人员的劳动维权工作,并调动广大个私业主、雇员和非正规就业人员参与社会建设的积极性。     

个体私营企业经营中存在的问题及对策

个体私营经济是社会主义市场经济的重要组成部分,已经成为我国经济发展中的一支重要力量.但在发展中也存在一些发展模式、经营理念、管理方法、内外部环境问题,解决好这一系列问题是个体私营经济健康发展的重要保证.     

近年国内私人刑事调查研究述评

随着时代不断发展,近年国内学界开始逐渐关注到私人刑事调查这一昔日鲜有涉足的问题。归纳总结近年国内学界在私人刑事调查的产生根源、历史发展、性质、优劣、取证效力等方面的研究成果具有十分重要的实践意义。     

法律行为与私法自治——对我国未来民法典的启示

法律行为是私法自治的主要工具,私法自治是法律行为的内核。尽管在不同时期、不同社会里,法律行为的具体表现形态不一,但是法律行为作为私法自治的工具是不可替代的。法律行为去除其私法自治的内核之后,存在一些国家管制的因素,但是,国家管制的主要目的依然是为了充分实现私法自治。法律行为与私法自治这种休戚与共的关系应当体现在我国未来的民法典当中,具体包括三方面内容:一是应当设置总则编,并在其中规定法律行为制度;二是应当放弃民事法律行为的说法,回归法律行为的传统;三是应当扬弃我国现行法律对于法律行为的有效要件及效力瑕疵的规定。     

天津滨海新区发展私募股权投资基金制度的创新初探

国务院在《天津滨海新区综合配套改革实验总体方案》的批复中明确指出:要把天津逐步建成我国产业投资基金发行、管理、交易、信息和人才培训中心。这实际上为天津滨海新区建立私募股权投资基金中心提供了最基本的行动纲领。天津滨海新区应当立足先行先试的政策优势,巩固基金注册和募集便利等现有优势,与国家各部委、大型央企合作,发起与特定产业紧密结合的新型产业基金,规划先行、政策引导,实现金融资本与实体产业的良性互动发展,加快建立全国性私募股权投资基金中心。     

社会公德研究综述

公民社会公德问题是构建和谐社会的一个重要组成部分,它关系到和谐社会建设的成败。因此,对社会公德的深入研究显得尤为迫切。