Venue Preference and Earthquake Mitigation Policy: Expanding the Micro‐Model of Policy Choice

Seismologists have reported that a majority of recent earthquakes in Oklahoma have been triggered by the activities of oil and gas companies. Despite this fact, there is evidence of strong opposition toward earthquake mitigation policy. In this article, we argue that how individuals define issues affect their policy choice. Furthermore, we incorporate the concept of venue shopping from the literature on macro theories of the policy process to investigate the effect of problem definition in shaping individual venue preference for policy choice. Using unique survey data, we find that problem definition, particularly issue causality and issue image, is strongly related to individual support for earthquake mitigation policy. However, a more nuanced relationship between individual problem definition and venue preference is observed. Our findings contribute to scholarly endeavors to understand the politics of problem definition at an individual level, which may be the precursor of understanding policy choices at the institutional level.     

Group Buying on the Upsurge

正LAST month I was invited out for a Korean barbecue by a 23-year-old Chinese friend of mine,Huang Xuesong.I gladly accepted the invitation and we had dinner together.After a good meal,it was time to pay the bill.As I rummaged in my bag for my purse,my friend stopped me:"No,it’s okay.I’ve already paid over the Internet,"he said.I won-     

收集公安视频教学素材的几个问题

公安视频教学素材在教学中日愈起到重要作用,近年来,电视节目日益丰富,有的很适合教学需要,成为公安视频教学素材的重要来源。在收集过程中,首先应注意收集电视节目预告,然后采用好的方法进行录制,再对之加工、保存,在使用过程中要根据著作权法进行合理使用。     

手机电视专利布局情况分析

手机电视是指以手机为终端设备传输电视内容的一项技术或应用。近年来,国内手机电视产业发展迅速。随着奥运直播以及3G牌照的发放,手机电视受到人们的广泛关注。通过手机电视专利布局分析,为国内手机电视产业发展及相关研究提供参考。     

分众化时代电视节目主持人个性化浅议

主持人的个性就是个人综合素质和人格魅力的浓缩,它与节目在受众中的传播效果息息相关。本文着重从主持人与节目价值取向、角色回归、专业水准、人格化传播等方面阐释主持人只有体现个性化,才能有持久的生命力。     

影视文化特色教育的实践与探索

在中国素质教育改革的大背景下,校本课程开发成为教育改革的趋势.在学校特色教育的探索中,依托乡贤人文资源,将"影视文化"作为学校的课程资源来开发,走"影视文化"为特色的办学之路,是学校得天独厚的.     

The E-learning Miracle

正AUGUST marks the first anniversary of xue.taobao.com,an online education platform along the lines of Taobao(the Chinese online shopping website equivalent to eBay and Amazon).Nipping at its heels,having appeared last November,is Google’s new product Helpout,a C2C(consumer-to-consumer)e-learning platform.This successive branching out of Internet giants into the e-learning marketplace will undoubtedly have a posi-     

'I'm Making a TV Programme Here!': Reality TV'S Banged Up and Public Criminology

Abstract: This article examines the TV series Banged Up and media reactions to it. In doing so it seeks to argue that it served a wider public service purpose, or public criminology, than simply entertainment. A number of other 'experiments' and the crossover between those and reality TV are also explored. The series was not universally admired and no attempt is made to hide this. In addition to engaging with theoretical matters the experience of one of the authors of being part of the programme is set out.     

互联网电视商业模式的著作权困境与反思

互联网电视刚面世就遭遇了不断的知识产权纠纷,其商业模式的性质各不相同,并引发了不同的侵权行为。利益平衡是知识产权法的基础性原则,司法实践中法院应当按照利益平衡的要求做出合理的判决。为了促进互联网电视制造商和著作权人之间利益的平衡,满足公众的合理需要,应理性地寻求维系利益平衡的作品管理机制和新的商业模式。     

To enforce or not to enforce? Judicialization,venue shopping,and global regulatory harmonization

The regulation of intellectual property rights takes place in a range of international venues. This proliferation of international venues greatly enhances the potential for venue shopping. We argue that different levels of domestic regulation and differing degrees of judicialization account for actors' preferences over institutional venues. We take into consideration two scenarios. Conceiving of judicialization as the delegation of adjudication to an independent third party and the enforcement through multilaterally authorized sanctions, we show that: (i) upward regulatory harmonization leads actors preferring weak regulatory intellectual property rights standards to strive for venues with low degrees of judicialization, whereas those favoring stringent intellectual property rights protection prefer highly judicialized venues; and (ii) downward harmonization leads to the opposite constellation of institutional preferences. We show how these expectations hold by way of in‐depth case studies of two instances of global intellectual property rights regulation: the regulation of plant genetic resources and intellectual property rights for medicines.