Innovation,China’s New Motto in the Mobile Era

正IN May 2013,Yu Jianyue left Sohu com after 10 years to join Koala FM,a start-up team developing a smart phone-based radio ap plication.It was one of millions of new apps in China that year.According to a report by China Central Television,the number of apps in Apple’s app store alone surpassed one million in 2013,in cluding 300,000 more than the previou year.     

GULF STATES' POLICY TOWARDS SYRIAN REFUGEES: CHARITY BEFORE HOSPITALITY

The regional turmoil in the Middle East since December 2010 has provided researchers with many topics for research. Despite a relatively large number of studies in recent years, none of them deal with one of the central questions – namely, the attitude of the Gulf States toward the misery of the Syrian refugees. While more than six million Syrians fled their homeland and became refugees, 1.5 million in Europe, few, if any, succeeded in relocating to the Gulf States.

This paper endeavors to explore the Gulf States' policy toward Arab (mostly Syrian) refugees. The major finding is that GCC members prefer to grant financial support to refugees outside of the Gulf region (this is justified as charity – Zakat) instead of hosting refugees. The combination of a fragile demographic structure, fear of political and social instability, and constant concern about infiltration by terrorists under the guise of refugees are the main reasons for the policy of closing the gates entirely to the refugees. These concerns also indicate that the idea of the nation state prevails over pan-Arab nationalism.     

个人慈善发展滞后的原因考究

个人慈善是我国慈善事业的组成部分之一，在构建和谐社会进程中，能够发挥社会保障资金筹资渠道、公民道德建设载体和直接参与和谐社会建设的作用。目前，与公民个人的经济文化发展水平相比，个人慈善的发展明显滞后，造成个人慈善发展滞后的原因是多方面的，究其原因，现行法律对个人慈善的保护不力是主要原因。有鉴于此，本文从社会学、法学的角度探究影响我国个人慈善发展的社会和法制原因。     

“科学公益”的社会建构:模型、话语与范例

公益慈善的科学化已成为当代中国慈善事业转型的重要特征。本文通过对21世纪一场“科学公益”运动的话语和实践的分析,试图理解科学公益的社会建构过程。本文指出:“科学公益”的社会建构过程包括建设话语表征、打造理论模型以及树立典范案例。科学公益话语试图将自己区别于传统慈善,强调应用科学及其技术来赋能公益慈善,解决社会问题。其后果却是让有效性诉求逐渐成为公益慈善场域的支配性要素。同时也带来了问题表征化、方法单一化以及科学中心化等诸多陷阱。如何让科学公益成为一个流动的概念,让其真正成为人人皆可参与的公民科学,是需进一步探索的新方向。     

Restricted Charitable Donations and the “Cy Pres” Doctrine

Courts apply the cy pres doctrine to best approximate deceased donor restrictions when these become illegal or impossible to carry out. I show, in a model of strategic donations, that a commitment to further protect deceased donor restrictions attracts more funds today at the price of inefficient allocation of funds tomorrow. The analysis identifies the benefits and costs of relaxing the doctrine, suggesting that a more flexible application by properly balancing its impact on present donations and future efficiency concerns, if feasible, would better serve to promote intergenerational social welfare.     

加快慈善立法，解决慈善事业面临的问题

我国慈善事业发展很快的同时,慈善机构在运行过程中遇到很多问题,对现有的法律法规提出了挑战。通过立法明确慈善组织的性质、活动程序、活动的监督机制等,使政府、捐赠者与接受者各方的权利义务都有明确的规定和保障,发挥法律的指引功能,使慈善机构运行更加规范,不仅必要而且紧迫。