论企业重整制度的若干法律问题

企业重整法律制度是我国《企业破产法》新出台的一项制度,这项制度的立法尚需进一步完善。就现行破产法中重整制度的三个重要法律问题——重整原因、重整申请的主体以及重整程序进行认真研究,其中的一些结论和方法能够帮助企业及管理者更好地运用这一法律。     

Breaking The Cycle Of Intergenerational Child Maltreatment: A Case For Active Efforts For Dependent Minor Parents And Their Children In State Custody

Dependent minor parents placed in foster care with their children often face significant hurdles. These parents are responsible to make caregiving decisions for their children, while they themselves fall under the caregiving responsibility of the state child welfare system. As such, dependent minor parents live in a “twilight zone” – they hold full parental rights, but limited rights as teenagers. For a number of reasons, the children of minor parents in foster care often come into state custody. When two generations are in foster care at the same time, states must balance the safety and best interests of the children with the rights of minor parents to care for their own children. Currently, the state child welfare system is only required to provide “reasonable efforts” to reunify parents with children when they have been removed from their care for abuse, neglect, or dependency. However, dependent minor parents in state custody often require more supportive services in order to successfully reunify with their children than in a typical child welfare case. This article places the circumstance just described in the context of dependent minor parents’ constitutionally protected rights, and advocates for a higher standard which would require states to provide “active efforts” to protect and preserve these young families.     

Learning to Mediate? The Mediation Support Unit and the Production of Expertise by the UN

The UN Mediation Support Unit (MSU) was created to support peace processes and enable organizational learning. This article analyses the unit through a sociological lens with the aim to understand its present configuration, and what this reveals about the production of knowledge about mediation at the UN. It argues that, because of the constraints imposed by intrastate wars and the existing institutional setting within the Secretariat, the MSU emphasizes generic and depoliticized expertise, by contrast with mediation's traditional reliance on non-transferable skills. This approach, in spite of its pitfalls, enables the unit to justify its own existence and to claim a position of authority within the organization and beyond.     

Media in the Policy Process: Using Framing and Narratives to Understand Policy Influences

Policy scholarship has long sought to understand the role of knowledge and information in the policy process. Of the actors, institutions, and resources involved in shaping policy processes and outcomes, media and narratives have been incorporated into empirical policy scholarship and theories with varying success. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) is a framework through which scholars can bring analysis of narratives into studies of policy making. The NPF moves the field forward in understanding the role of narratives, communication, and stakeholder beliefs in the policy process, while at the same time striving for theoretical rigor. We embed the discussion of frames and narratives in the NPF to provide an empirical and theoretical cohesion to our understanding of media and public policy and then provide a brief empirical example of how such an integration may prove fruitful for policy scholars.     

Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision-making processes

Do citizens welcome the involvement of independent experts in politics? Theoretical and empirical work so far provides conflicting answers to this question. On the one hand, citizens may demand expert involvement in political decision-making processes in order to ensure efficient and effective governance solutions. On the other hand, citizens can be distrustful of experts and reject the unaccountable and non-transparent nature of expert-based governance. This note investigates citizen preferences for the involvement of experts in different stages of political processes and across ‘hard’ and ‘easy’ political issues. Results show that, in the absence of explicit output information, respondents prefer independent experts over national elected representatives in the policy design and implementation stages, across political issues. For the crucial stage of decision making, respondents show no difference in their evaluation of processes that delegate decisions to experts or to elected representatives, with the exception of environmental policy, where expert decision making is preferred. These findings are relevant for ongoing discussions on how to incorporate independent experts in political decision making in a way that citizens find legitimate and on how to address increased citizen dissatisfaction with the representative democratic functions performed by political parties, governments and politicians.     

论刑事诉讼法典中不必规定基本原则

在法典中设专章或专门条文规定基本原则不是世界各国主流做法。我国在法典卷首规定基本原则的立法技巧的合理性和必然性在如今的法制环境和时代条件下已不复存在。刑事诉讼基本原则本身固有的功能也决定了它不必被规定在刑事诉讼法典中。而且,刑事诉讼法典中以专章或专门条文规定基本原则有其不可避免的弊端,应通过完善、具体的程序和制度来体现刑事诉讼的基本原则。     

历史上中国东西部经济发展不平衡的形成及其原因

春秋战国至秦汉,关中经济区和巴蜀经济区并称"天府之国",在我国西部呈南北纵向排列,成为两颗耀眼的明珠,是西部经济发展最为辉煌的时期.汉晋以后,中国经济重心逐渐南移,其实这也是我国经济重心自西向东的转移.唐代有"扬一益二"之说,扬州和益州成为两颗耀眼的明珠.它们呈东西横向排列,表明中国经济发展西不如东.历史的发展证明,当今的西部大开发是中国经济格局的大变动,必须作为一项长期战略,树立全局意识和观念,切实解决开发中的深层次问题.     

对公安院校特色建设的思考

公安院校为提高教育教学质量需要进行特色建设,目前已形成不同于其他院校的特色,主要是:警察职业的培养目标、实行警务化管理、突出实践教学、师资队伍具有双重角色、地方和时代色彩浓厚、独特的校园警察文化。如何加强公安院校的特色建设呢?加强领导,确定特色培养目标;加强师资队伍建设,充分发挥教师特长;改革课程设置,开展学科特色建设;加强教育科研工作;从严治警,从严治校是加强公安院校特色建设的基本途径和措施。     

邓小平一国两制构想与祖国和平统一

邓小平同志根据国际国内形势的变化和香港、澳门、台湾问题的历史和现状 ,创造性地提出了“一国两制”的科学构想。这是从中国实际出发 ,实现祖国和平统一大业的最佳方案。“一国两制”构想完全符合中国社会发展需要 ,是祖国和平统一进程中切实可行的方案。我们相信 :靠“一国两制”构想一定能把我国完全统一起来。     

城市化进程中可能出现的社会问题

城市化进程是不以人的意志为转移的。自解放至今,由于我们过多地强调政策的作用,使 城市化走了不少弯路。在我国经济高速发展的今天,遵循城市化发展的规律,充分发挥党 在基层组织中的作用,是避免城市化进程中出现社会问题的关键。