Negotiating the Marcellus: The Role of Information in Building Trust in Extractive Deals

New technology has expanded the opportunities for energy companies within the United States, often bringing them into populated communities and requiring them to negotiate deals with landowners. This case study focuses on how one group of landowners in northeastern Pennsylvania creatively reimagined the process of negotiating in a natural gas deal. They used collective bargaining for leverage, and the Internet and social media to level the informational playing field. These techniques allowed them to develop trust within the group and ultimately with one company, as they sought to protect their environment and enhance their financial gain.     

网络推手的传播学批判与辩护

网络推手的出现让很多网络红人和网络事件从偶然转变成为了必然。一方面,对免费的网络注意力所蕴藏的巨大商业利益的认知加快了网络推手的职业化和商业化;另一方面,不成熟的行业自律导致了网络话语暴力、恶意制造媒介假事件、媒介职业伦理缺失等一系列问题。实际上,网络推手本身并无善恶之分,但网络推手的实现方式却有好坏之别,关键在于媒介社会给出的是何种样式的设置。面对网络推手的发展趋势已然是一个不争的事实,着眼于网络推手隐患的化解,职业伦理与法制的规范、积极文化的引导与媒介素养的提升势在必行。     

国外知名金融专业硕士项目的特色研究

调研了全球排名前50名代表性高校中金融专业硕士项目，分析了其培养模式的特色，通过比较找出了我国高校金融专硕培养的差距和问题，进而对我国金融专业硕士培养模式提出了操作层面的建议。     

论财政立宪主义语境下的税收权控制

在我国社会转型的过程中,市场经济的实行和法治国家的建设均呼唤财政立宪主义理念的落实,其中对国家税收权的制约是核心。为此,不仅需要从宪法的意义上对＂税收＂的内涵进行解读,展现其中蕴涵的宪政主义精神;而且需要从征税权的行使、税收收入的使用、纳税人的权利保护、征税权的合理划分等制度上进行建设和完善,方能在通过财政立宪推进中国宪政进程方面见到实效。     

深化农村金融改革的思考

新农村建设需要农村金融的鼎力支持,但现实的农村金融存在诸多问题,与新形势发展很不适应。深化农村金融改革要做好几方面工作:加大对农村资金的投放;加快正规金融机构改革的步伐;规范民间金融组织;发展多种金融产品;大力发展小额信贷;开展农村金融市场的有效竞争;加快制定和完善农村金融法规。     

浅析未成年人犯罪

我国的未成年人犯罪已成为社会各界所普遍关注的问题之一。本文概括出未成年人犯罪的基本状况和心理行为的特点,着重探讨了未成年人犯罪的主客观原因,从社会、学校和家庭三方面进行了系统分析,重点分析了社会因素中的网络因素及家庭教育因素。通过预测分析未成年人犯罪的发展趋势,有针对性地提出了预防未成年人犯罪的基本对策。     

Tony Blair's 'Media' Speech: The Commentators

Tony Blair's speech challenged the media over its standards in his valedictory lecture. Many of his charges about the absence of balance, attacks on motive and a pack mentality stand up, even if some are exaggerated and also applied well before his arrival in 10 Downing Street. Mr Blair's solutions did ot match his critique. What is required is a more self‐questioning media, being held to account on the internet and on specialist blogging sites. Vigorous criticism, requiring justification, is a more credible rout than tighter regulation. Tony Blair's speech on the changing pressures on the media is both interesting and convincing in its diagnosis (although generally reported in ways that did not reveal this). It is less convincing in suggestions for change: the fact that on‐line media will fall under Of‐com, and so under its minimal ‘content regulation’ will have little impact. Effective change could begin with other types of (self or other regulation). Some steps towards change might include minimal requirements for journalists and editors to accept elementary forms of accountability, such as disclosing conflicts of interest and payments made for ‘stories’. The scale of media coverage may be crucial in determining the allocation of aid, yet the attention the media pays to particular causes is arbitrary. Many serious disasters are not reported and as a consequence do not receive adequate aid, so that the victims of the crisis will lose out. Chronic long term problems, like famine, are ignored in favour of ‘sudden emergencies’. Reporting seeks sensation and simple stories which influences the way that aid agencies respond to the media. The complex background to a faraway disaster is often overlooked and not properly reported. Tony Blair's speech describing some of the news media as ‘feral beasts’ contained one paragraph which contained an insight into his views on new media. It was known that the outgoing Prime Minister was uncomfortable with some aspects of new technology but his remarks reveal a wider disappointment with how new media has failed to deliver changes which he had hoped for in political communications.This paper records Mr Blair's problems with new media and argues that by focusing on how the new technologies might provide a better way for politicians to by‐pass the traditional media he has missed the point of their wider benefits.     

Effectiveness of private finance initiatives (PFI): study of private financing for the provision of capital assets for schools

The study reported in this paper explores how effective Public Private Partnerships (PPP) have been as critical providers of capital assets within the state education sector in the UK. Specifically, the research investigates the impact on educational provision of the UK government's contentious £43 billion Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The inquiry focuses on 27 English Local Education Authorities (LEAs) currently or recently involved in PFI. The investigation examines the effect of PFI's on LEA decision‐making processes and discusses these authorities assessment of the UK government's current PFI strategy. An evaluation of PFI as a source of sustainable finance is reported as well as recommendations made for LEAs currently considering adoption of PFI. Through such analysis, this study seeks to de‐layer and ascertain the influence of complex external environmental influences and stakeholders that need to be taken into account in order to make PPPs work. The paper concludes by presenting the critical considerations for enhancing the working relationship between private and public sector partners. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

构建公共财政应急机制应对公共风险

公共风险是现代社会的一种常态。公共风险如果不能及时有效化解，就有可能演变为社会公共危机，公共财政往往是公共风险的最后一道防线。构建公共财政应急机制是公共财政框架中不可缺少的重要组成部分，而应急预算制度应当是公共财政应急机制的核心。     

陕西典当业面临的挑战与机遇

典当业在新时期越来越明显地具备了“第二银行”的功能。已不再是单纯地为解决生计问题提供消费性融资,而已成为广泛地发展经济、支持生产、活跃流通、方便群众的生产性、经营性融资的新渠道。透视变化,分析陕西典当业的现状,为促进陕西典当业的发展和进步,提出相应对策。