经济市场化与执政党的转型

经济市场化事实上最先将力作用于执政党。执政党主动地推进经济市场化进程，然后又被动地接受市场化的挑战，进而其只能主动实现自身的转型：执政权威由克里斯玛型向法理型转型、执政体制由全能政府体制向有限政府体制转型、执政方式由集权人治型向分权法治型转型。这些方面的转型从客观上推动了政治民主化进程。     

警察行政处罚权与人权的博弈

随着法治现代化的不断推进,人权保护逐渐成为当今社会发展的主题之一,警察行政执法领域中的人权保护更是受到社会的普遍关注。警察行政处罚权是“限制”还是“扩大”是正在审议中的《治安管理处罚法》讨论的焦点。在现代社会,警察作为管理者的强大权威,在其执法过程中不断暴露出来的对公民人权的侵犯。这个问题越来越成为社会关注的焦点,人们对警察行政处罚权的“扩”还是“限”的问题展开了广泛的博弈。从某一个层面上讲,博弈的目的就是为了在扩权和限权之间寻找合理的平衡。     

职业自主性与律师行业定位的三重维度考察——以新律师法为核心对象

职业自主性理论为观察中国律师业脱钩改制进程提供重要的理论视角，新律师法则为这种观察提供了恰当的样本。新律师法在职业自主性方面的重要进展体现在律师一委托人关系的建立、多元化律师事务所组织形式模式的引入以及律师行业两结合管理体制的微妙变化。要使新律师法在职业自主性领域的进展真正落到实处，需要从一系列配套制度措施入手。     

遏制公权力异化与腐败的制度伦理向度

公权力异化与腐败是权力滥用的两面,而遏制公权力异化和腐败也是人类历史的难题。虽然人们普遍强调从教育、制度和监督的综合治理模式入手来解决公权力异化与腐败问题,但是从制度伦理视角来分析和遏制公权力异化和腐败则是更为清晰和有效的路径选择。     

论现行法律关于水资源环境信息管理体系的规定

关于环境信息的收集、处理、交流和使用的法律规定是环境法的重要组成部分。由于水资源与经济发展和人民生活息息相关,加强和完善有关水资源的信息管理体系的任务显得尤为迫切。本文查证我国有关水资源的法律中关于环境信息的收集、处理、交流和应用的法律规定并分析其实施情况。在这种查证和分析的基础上,本文对如何完善我国水资源环境信息管理体系提出了若干建议。     

强县扩权进程中的问题及其发展趋势

随着强县扩权这一新生事物在中国大地的出现,理论研究文章相继问世。到目前为止,强县扩权虽然只在十几个省实行试点,但是,它表现出了强大的生命力,它在发展县域经济和建设社会主义新农村,以及在深化行政管理体制改革中发挥的重大作用已引起理论界和一些高级领导层的高度重视。从一些实行强县扩权的省份来看,目前,也遇到了一些深层次的问题,急需深入研究,统筹解决。     

Democracy,development and chieftaincy along South Africa's ‘Platinum Highway’: some emerging issues

South Africa's ‘Platinum Highway’ (Generally referred to as ‘the platinum belt’.) – ‘a 150?km continuation of platinum group metals (PGM)-bearing reefs’ [Havenstein, R. (2004). “The Platinum Highway – Where Does It Lead?” Accessed May 10, 2011. http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/EBIT-Innovate/The_Platinum_Highway-where_does_it.pdf, 1] – has ushered in a new era of considerable accumulation of mineral revenues by a few traditional authorities on whose communal lands platinum ore is extracted. The Royal Bafokeng community in the North West province stands as an epitome of this phenomenon. However, not much is known about the relationships at local governance level, particularly the interface of mineral wealth and community development. Adopting the Bafokeng community as an empirical case in this article, I argue that, despite some observed benefits, vast mineral wealth is likely to deepen tensions between local power holders within the sphere of rural local governance, thus paradoxically hampering development, particularly in a context where traditional authorities are the architects and champions of resource-engendered community development.     

Battles over boundaries: the politics of territory,identity and authority in three Ugandan regions

In Uganda, contested relations between the central government and sub-national regions have, since independence, shaped state formation and national identity in fundamental ways. Today, the country is characterised by regionally uneven state presence, and distinct sub-national identities and ongoing contestation over territorial demarcations, loci of authority and political identities. This article explores the politics of territory, identity and authority in three Ugandan regions in this context, in order to analyse the implications for exclusion and conflict at the sub-national level. This involves struggles over the territorial and administrative demarcations of and within regions; the loci and scope of authority with regards to these units; struggles over access to land; and the (non-)recognition of various cultural–political identities in these regions.     

Typology of State Types: Persistence and Transition

Research on state fragility has seldom examined questions of persistence and transition of states. We develop a sixfold typology of states to examine how key structural features of states evolve and contribute to successful exits from fragility in some cases and persistence in others. Particularly worrisome is the lack of positive transition among the weakest states. Our findings are derived from a minimalist construct of a refined time series data set involving state indicators of authority, legitimacy, and capacity. Case studies of some of the more turbulent examples support our state trajectories. Additionally, changes in legitimacy most often led state transitions into or out of fragility. Implications of intervention policy for transitioning states out of fragility are addressed, and these are given particular focus since fragile states experience at least twice the intensity/incidence of internal armed conflict compared to other states.     

从民事特别程序的实施现状谈司法权威的缺失与确立

在我国,司法机关的权利受到立法的严格限制,同时,习惯又促使我们过多的寻求行政机关或其他民间力量的救 济。而司法机关拥有合法的权利和令人信服的威望是法治的前提,因此,提高司法机关的宪政地位以及扩大司法机关的权力是必 要且必须的。