The Political Viability of Carbon Pricing: Policy Design and Framing in British Columbia and California

The adoption of climate policies with visible, substantial costs for households is uncommon because of expected political backlash, but British Columbia's carbon tax and California's cap‐and‐trade program imposed such costs and still survived vigorous opposition. To explain these outcomes, this article tests hypotheses concerning policy design, framing, energy prices, and elections. It conducts universalizing and variation‐finding comparisons across three subcases in the two jurisdictions and uses primary sources to carry out process tracing involving mechanisms of public opinion and elite position‐taking. The article finds strong support for the timing of independent energy price changes, exogenous causes of election results, reducing the visibility of carbon pricing, and using public‐benefit justifications, as well as some support for making concessions to voters. By contrast, the effects of the use of revenue, industry exemptions/compensations, and making polluters pay are not uniform, because the effects of revenue use depend on how it is embedded in coalition building efforts and a middle path between exempting or compensating industry and burdening it appears to be more effective than pursuing just one or the other approach.     

Electoral coordination in Anglophone Africa

Electoral coordination has been a primary concern for scholars of African politics, interested in topics such as ethnic conflict mitigation and democratisation, for decades. However, understanding of micro-level electoral coordination in Sub-Saharan Africa is generally still very limited. This study is the first to investigate voter coordination in Sub-Saharan Africa using constituency-level election results. Studying 20 single-member district elections during the period 1990–2010 in five Anglophone African countries (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia) demonstrates that many African elections continue to show low levels of electoral coordination. Using a multi-level regression analysis, the study shows that the most important explanation for low levels of coordination across Africa is high voter volatility. It is argued that insufficient information makes it hard for voters and candidates to act strategically. However, the level of democracy, which has been emphasised in earlier aggregate level research, does not significantly affect the level of coordination.     

城市社区民警协调工作应把握的问题

在现代城市社区警务中,民警切实搞好各项协调活动是实现工作目标的重要保证。文章从城市社区民警协调工作的对象、方式以及艺术三个方面进行了论述,旨在为社区警务工作提供可资借鉴的理论参考。     

关于我国社会保障制度问题的探析

健全的社会保障体系,有利于保证改革的顺利推进.文章通过对我国社会保障制度发展过程中存在的共性、个性及社会保障制度本身存在问题的分析,有针对性地提出了加快社会保障体系改革的思路提高社会保障的社会化程度,切实加强社会保障制度与社会经济体制改革的协调配合,建立起收、支、管、投四个环节相对分离的社会保障管理体制.     

试论工会是劳动关系协调机制的组织基础

劳动关系协调机制建设是加大工会维权工作力度的制度保障,只有健全工会组织,才能培育劳动关系协调机制中的劳权主体;培训工会干部,提高协调劳动关系的能力,做好这方面工作是工会推动社会主义和谐社会建设、发展和谐劳动关系、构建劳动关系协调机制的组织基础。     

东亚区域合作与欧洲一体化的发展模式比较

东亚区域合作不同于欧洲的统一观念和制度化建设,主要来自于权力与利益的互动联系,运行中突出市场导向而缺乏制度规范.应认真总结欧洲一体化历程的经验,并与东亚地区合作模式进行比较,以新地区主义视角来探讨适合东亚特色的地区主义合作道路.东亚区域合作应发挥东盟的地区主导作用,完善东盟与中日韩的"10 3"合作机制,共同塑造东亚新地区主义的开放性、协商性和多层次性的特点,实现利益共同体的发展目标.     

“作为区域研究的日本学”在中国——兼论其意识形态机制

文章在梳理"区域研究"这一概念的基础上,总结了"作为区域研究的日本学"在中国的现状,并对其中的意识形态机制进行了认识论上的分析,认为区域研究的跨学科性所带来的超越性视点和对知识结构的反思性批判思维乃是日本学作为"区域研究"获得成功的关键所在。     

科技创新对科技人才聚集的影响及其空间溢出效应——基于空间面板Durbin模型的实证研究

基于2000-2017年省际面板数据和空间面板Durbin模型，研究了地区科技创新能力对科技人才聚集的影响及其空间溢出效应。结果表明：地区科技创新能力提升不仅有助于本地区科技人才的聚集，也有利于通过溢出效应促进邻近地区的科技人才聚集；科技创新能力提升对科技人才聚集的影响具有显著的地区差异；科技创新与科技人才聚集均具有空间相关性。因此，应强化科技创新与科技人才聚集的结合，在完善多方联动机制的基础上共建跨区科技人才流动平台，科学构建科技人才自由流动机制，并引导科技人才向科技创新优势和创新特色地区聚集。     

中国省际制造业收敛与省际经济增长分异研究——来自部门生产率增长与跨部门资源再分配的视角

文章将生产率增长分解为部门内生产率的增长和部门间资源的重新配置，分析造成中国省际制造业收敛而整体经济增长分异的原因。研究发现：服务业部门在省际间的发散是导致整体经济不收敛的关键原因，但不是全部原因；尽管制造业的生产率在省际间是收敛的，但是由于制造业劳动力加速转出，导致制造业收敛对整体经济的收敛作用被产业结构的变迁削弱了；从农业流出的劳动力进入服务业和非制造业部门，而不是劳动生产率更高的制造业部门，产业结构变迁对整体经济增长的实质拉动作用受到限制。     

Airport Expansion and the British Planning System: Regime Management

The article examines the process whereby government and business elites have driven the expansion of London airports, particularly via the mode of the establishment of an ‘independent’ commission, the Davies Commission (2012–2015). It addresses the strategic framing of airports planning, including the role of National Policy Statements, and the nature of the consideration of the planning applications for consent to develop. Temporal and geographical dimensions are analysed, showing how central to the UK state project is the expansion of the southern English / Greater London core, with associated infrastructure geographies. It concludes that corporate and state power may well achieve the desired expansion of airport capacity in the London region, overriding environmental and other non‐commercial considerations. However, there are tensions in the dominant state and business model, given an apparent commitment to carbon emissions reduction and other air quality goals, as well as to minimising the costs to the public sector which airport expansion is likely to generate.