节假日高速公路免费政策问题剖析与改进建议

节假日高速公路免费政策是政府让利于民，更好地服务于民的一个好举措，也是公路回归于公益，真正发挥公共产品服务于民的表现。但在实行高速公路免费通行政策之后，我国多条高速公路出现了道路拥堵现象，以及利益协调问题和地区差异问题，改进这些问题应从公众、企业、政府三个层面进行，应通过多方共同努力，使节假日高速公路免费政策更加完善。     

“三农问题”:一个一般分析框架

文章提出了"三农问题"的一个一般分析框架,指出"三农问题"是发展中国家普遍存在的问题,"三农问题"的一般特征是城乡发展差距过大,主要表现在城乡之间居民收入、产业和社会发展等方面。运用这一分析框架,文章分析了我国当前"三农问题"的主要表现,指出我国"三农问题"具有一般性和特殊性,"三农问题"根源是长期奉行"重工轻农、城乡分治"经济社会发展战略的结果,根治途径是必须实施统筹城乡发展的战略。     

公司治理问题的法学思考——对中国公司治理法律问题研究的回顾与展望

对公司治理相关问题的研究是近20年来学术界最为关注的热点问题之一，其研究范围涉及到经济学、法学、管理学、社会学等诸多领域。这一问题的研究成果直接推动了中国现代企业制度的建立和公司法的修改。以法学研究为切入点，从不同的视角，对国内多年来的公司治理相关研究成果予以条分缕析般的冷静审视和详尽评述，其内容涉及到公司治理的范畴与理念、公司治理的路径，以及公司治理研究中广受关注的公司章程、股东会决议瑕疵、董事会与董事、监事会、职工参与、中小股东利益保护等各个方面。并在此基础上，对未来公司治理研究的方法和重点进行了思考和展望。     

关于两岸和平协议的几点思考

两岸和平协议是两岸关系和平发展的最重要标志，现阶段海峡两岸仍然难以商签和平协议。两岸和平协议实质上是国家统一前的过渡性协议，“一中框架”是其政治前提。海峡两岸的认知差异应当通过协商谈判的方式获得合情合理的解决，采取灵活方式，循序渐进地解决相关问题，包括程序性问题与实质性问题。     

湛江市农村地区社会稳定和治安问题研究

湛江市位于我国大陆的最南端,农村面积大,农业人口多,农村的社会秩序和治安状况对全市治安稳定至关重要。湛江农村最为突出的问题是黑恶势力犯罪、涉枪案件、涉毒涉赌、征地拆迁补偿、土地权属纠纷和修路以及民风民俗活动引发的群体性事件、精神病人作案和交通事故引发的事件等7方面。影响湛江市农村地区社会稳定和治安秩序问题的成因主要有：经济社会发展失衡;基层政权组织软弱涣散;一些历史遗留问题积重难返;黑恶势力坐大成势,打击难度大;农村派出所力量薄弱和精神文明建设滞后,群众素质低等。解决湛江农村地区的社会稳定和治安问题,根本出路在于不断深化经济社会改革,推进农村精神文明建设和物质文明建设。而当务之急,必须明确维护稳定和治安秩序的责任制,加强基层政府和群众自治性组织建设,大力开展整治活动,不断提高农村社会管理能力和水平,这样才能使湛江农村地区逐步走向有序。     

American Views About Public Services: A Challenging Paradox for Public Administrators

This review of public opinion about the role of government in the United States finds a perhaps surprising combination of conservative and liberal beliefs. For example, while they are strongly supportive of tax cuts, Americans also want more government activism in a wide variety of areas. This certainly presents a challenge for public administrators and government since the means for fulfilling these desires of the citizens are far from readily apparent.     

The functioning and regulation of escrow accounts

Abstract

About 40 million Americans have mortgages serviced by escrow accounts. Yet escrow accounts are rarely covered by an explicit agreement between borrower and lender and are often poorly understood. As a result, escrow accounts have become the subject of growing controversy. Federal regulation of escrow accounts has become increasingly detailed and intrusive during the past two decades, and the subject is under almost continuous regulatory review. In the 1990s, the attorneys general of at least 10 states have sued large escrow account servicers over administration of accounts.

The purposes of this article are to explain briefly how escrow accounts work, benefit relevant parties, and are regulated by federal agencies, and to evaluate alternative regulatory programs. Most of the legitimate social goals of federal regulation could be achieved by requiring an explicit escrow agreement at the time of closing on a mortgage. A second‐best requirement would be that interest be paid on escrow balances.     

Comment on Jack Goodman's “houses,apartments, and the incidence of property taxes”

Abstract

Goodman finds from his analysis of the 2001 Residential Finance Survey that multifamily housing bears a higher effective property tax rate (EPTR) than single‐family owner‐occupied housing and argues that much of the differential is associated with the lower average property value of apartments. We offer comments on how this important research can be enhanced and analyze the EPTR by using a different database, the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the decennial census.

Like Goodman, we find from the PUMS that the EPTR of multifamily housing is high relative to that of single‐family detached housing and that lower‐value multifamily housing has a higher EPTR relative to that of higher‐value multifamily units. We offer preliminary findings from the PUMS on the implications of the EPTR for development patterns (it may discourage smart growth), equity (the poor and minorities bear a higher tax burden), and housing (high EPTRs challenge affordability).     

论行政稽查执法行为的职务犯罪预防

近年来网络、报刊等媒体报道,以及人大代表、人民群众等社会相关方面的反映,一些行政稽查执法活动不规范、野蛮执法、滥用行政执法权,特别是由此引发的职务犯罪问题比较突出,给国家行政权力的行使造成了非常恶劣的社会影响。笔者认为有必要对行政稽查执法活动进行专门调查和研究,及时发现问题、预防犯罪,以期对今后行政稽查执法工作的进一步规范而有所裨益。     

意思自治与民事纠纷的解决

当事人选择不同的民事纠纷解决方式反映了意思自治原则 ,该原则在不同的方式中有不同的表现。我国现行法律对意思自治在各种方式中的贯彻有不足之处 ,需要完善 ,以弥补当事人多种选择诉讼方式解决纠纷之缺陷。