Meta‐Governance of Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Actors' Perspectives from Kenya

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promotes multi‐stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) as a means of implementation while at the same time putting renewed focus on the need for national‐level ownership and implementation. Despite the fact that an ever growing body of literature on the merits and drawbacks of MSPs delineates several success conditions for partnerships, efforts to translate this knowledge into national‐level meta‐governance for MSPs remain marginal to date. This study outlines the benefits the literature alleges for such “meta‐governance” frameworks, before it uses a country‐level study with a series of stakeholder interviews to take a closer look at national‐level context conditions and lessons learned with regard to two water partnerships in Kenya. Our findings suggest that to date the existing meta‐governance for partnerships in Kenya is rather weak and fragmented. Yet respondents support the view that MSPs could benefit from such a framework, in particular regarding local ownership of MSPs and the potential to scale successful cases. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Moderator or Manipulator? How International–Local Relations Emerged as a Function of UN Authority-Building in Cambodia

The success or failure of international peacebuilding missions is predominantly evaluated in reference to interveners’ ability to exercise their mandated authorities. To test the value of an empirically based analysis of authority-building processes in the course of such missions the article turns to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC, 1992–1993). In order to safeguard the country’s stability many supported the idea of holding presidential elections in addition to the ones for the Constituent Assembly forming the new government. To organize such unforeseen elections UNTAC would have had to change its mandate as determined by the Paris Peace Accords (PPA). Based on extensive archival research the paper analyses the debate surrounding this proposal as a series of legitimacy claims that were selectively recognized and rejected. The article concludes that evaluations of peacebuilding missions are indeed too focused on interveners’ authority to decide, while neglecting or underestimating challenges to their authority to interpret. This fosters a false sense of control over the direction of political processes.     

Authority in rebel groups: identity,recognition and the struggle over legitimacy

This article asks how rebel leaders capture and lose legitimacy within their own movement. Analysing these complex and often uneasy relations between elites and grassroots of insurgency is important for understanding the success or failure of peace processes. This is because internal contestation over authority between rival rebel leaders can drive a movement’s external strategy. Based on ethnographic research on the Karen and Kachin rebellions in Myanmar and insights from Political Sociology, the article suggests that leadership authority is linked to social identification and the claim to recognition among insurgent grassroots. If rebel leaders manage to satisfy their grassroots’ claim to recognition, their insurgent orders are stable. Failing this, their authority erodes and is likely to be challenged. These findings contribute to understanding insurgency and peace negotiations in Myanmar and civil wars more generally by showing how struggles over legitimacy within rebel groups drive wider dynamics of war and peace.     

跨行政区水环境管理立法研究

我国已经进行了许多水环境管理的立法,这些立法在我国的水环境管理中发挥了重要的作用;然而,我国的水环境管理立法也存在许多问题,包括缺乏完整的跨行政区水环境管理的政策、法规体系不健全、管理制度不完善、管理体制不能适应实际管理的需要和对法律的执行缺乏公众监督机制等。解决这些问题,需要改变目前的一些立法原则和制度安排。主要包括:制定全面系统的跨行政区水环境管理的政策;健全跨行政区水环境管理的法律、法规体系;完善跨行政区水环境管理制度;理顺跨行政区的水环境管理体制;建立完善的公众参与机制;转变观念,与时俱进,建立一个真正的良治社会。     

Relections on Shanghai Students 2012 PISA Triumph

正JUNIOR high school students from Shanghai won first place among64 countries and regions at the PISA 2012,or the Program for International Student Assessment.The PISA investigates students’scholastic performance in mathematics,reading and science.In the 2012 assessment,Shanghai students topped the charts in all three categories.The organizer,the Paris-headquartered OECD(Organization for Economic Cooperation and De-     

论我国核心预算机构之构建

整个预算过程中,在行政机关内部确立核心的预算机构,对预算编制和预算执行具有重要意义。应当重视非行政机关预算案的编制问题,应将财政体制改革提升到政治体制改革的高度,整合财政部和国家发改委的职能,确立起核心预算机构,实现预算过程与政策过程的统一,保证预算权力运转的统一性、权威性,推动预算法治的实现。     

浅议云南省农村饮水安全问题

近年来,随着社会经济的快速发展,加快了解决农村饮水安全问题的步伐。但是,要根本解决问题,改善农村饮水状况,仍需扎实推进农村饮水工作。结合云南省实际,分析影响农村饮水安全的问题,提出了解决的对策和建议,以期对全省解决农村饮水安全问题提供借鉴。     

“速度与激情”事件引发的民法思考

四川绵阳“速度与激情”事件多方位反映出民法的问题。公民的隐私权、肖像权等人格权应当得到法律保护；公权力机关在对公共场所进行合法监控时必须保护好被监督公众的隐私权等人格权；公权力机构对依法获得的公民信息因过错而公开的侵权责任。这些反映出的民法问题都应该进行深入思考研究。     

提高公安执法公信力 树立和维护法律权威

文章以社会主义法治理念为视角,阐释了提高公安执法公信力,树立和维护法律权威,是社会主义法治理念的体现和依法治国方略的保证,同坚持公平正义、执法为民、人权保障等紧密联系。而执法不公正、人权保障观念淡薄、特权思想严重、非警务活动过多、民警执法素质偏低等,则是当前减损公安执法公信力的主要原因;据此提出并论述了完善此命题的对策措施,诸如提高公安民警执法素质、追求公平正义价值、践行执法为民理念、规范执法程序公正和支持民警依法反暴制暴的执法行为等。