State Abortion Policies,Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider Laws,and Abortion Demand

Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider laws (or TRAP laws) are state laws that apply only to abortion providers and impose on them licensing fees, physical plant/personnel regulations, and requirements that exceed those imposed on other comparable health‐care providers or medical facilities. According to prochoice supporters, the explicit or implicit goal of TRAP laws is to drive abortion providers from the market and reduce the supply of abortion services. This paper examines whether a state TRAP licensing fee or a TRAP plant/personnel law also has an independent impact on women's demand for abortion over the period 1982–2005. The empirical results find that neither state TRAP law has a statistically significant independent effect on women's abortion demand. The empirical results remain robust even after controlling for time‐varying factors or the time period after the Supreme Court's landmark 1992 Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey decision.     

A dilemma for the welfare state: managing the cost for shorter working hours, 1919–2002

The purpose of this article is to study how the Swedish welfare state has managed the cost of shorter working hours. During the twentieth century, several official reports were published in order to produce knowledge about this issue and to deal with the cost for the reform. This article aims to examine the arguments and beliefs of the political economy of the welfare state that emerge from these formulations. An examination of shorter working hours as social policy sheds new light on the relationship between the welfare state and capital, in addition to limits for social policy imposed by the economic system. A reduction of work hours has never been justified as a reform that simply gives more time for leisure and less time for work, but has been assigned a cost that was necessary to manage. The reform was considered possible because it was interpreted as helping to reproduce labor power or capitalism as a whole. It was thought impossible and undesirable when considered to be a threat to this reproduction. This article shows the process of managing the cost for shorter working hours in Sweden and how arguments fundamentally changed over time, although the basic premises remained the same.     

浅论我国民族教育发展的观念调整及其法制化问题

民族教育是我国教育事业的重要组成部分,现行民族教育观念应当作出必要调整,在教育目标、教育价值观、教育培养模式等方面,均应适应知识经济、现代化和社会主义新农村的建设和发展需要,并从法律的高度加以明确,予以确立。     

行政审判依据间的冲突及选择的操作分析

行政诉讼中的法律冲突有合法与非法之分.合法冲突是法律允许存在的冲突,只需按照冲突的一般解决规则选择适用法律即可.非法冲突即法律不允许并存的冲突,只能是承认一方有效,另一方无效.非法冲突表现多样,危害法律权威和行政、司法公正,其产生有立法观念、立法体制、立法技术等法律方面原因,为提高诉讼效率,尽量减少法律冲突带来的危害,我国需要确立一些可操作的选择适用规则.     

民族自治区域法律冲突探析

民族自治区域享有自治权、法律的变通权,使民族自治区域法律冲突的产生成为必然。随着《民族区域自治法》及《国务院实施〈中华人民共和国民族区域自治法>若干规定》越来越有效地贯彻和实施,随着各自治区域不断开放和经济不断的发展,民族自治区域法律冲突,从产生的种类及数量上必然会越来越多,本文主要对法律冲突的成因及其解决进行探讨。     

浅议“违宪”的慎用

违宪，一般指违反宪法的行为。四川两位律师认为《娱乐场所管理条例》禁止四类人从业于娱乐场所属违宪之结论经不起推敲，有使“违宪”泛化之嫌疑，同时又曲解了宪法与部门法及行政法规的关系，误解了我国以宪法为主导地位的法律体系所蕴含的“一般情况下，法无明文禁止均可行”的内在精神。在任何情况下，对违宪都应当慎重使用。     

中国区际法律冲突解决路径探析（上）

“一国两制”所实现的是一种特殊形式的国家统一，这为我国区际法律冲突的产生奠定了坚实的政治和宪法基础。“特殊形式的国家统一”从根本上决定了我国区际法律冲突不是一般意义上的区际法律冲突，也决定了我国区际法律冲突的科学解决必然具有自己的鲜明特色。     

农村基层组织人员职务犯罪法律适用问题探讨——以富阳市为例

对于协助人民政府从事公务的农村基层组织人员（“村官”），所从事的公务是否属于法定的行政管理工作，是否涉嫌职务犯罪，如何定罪处罚，是当前司法实践中出现的新问题、新情况。立法的目的旨在通过惩治“村官”腐败，维护农村社会、经济的稳定。但如果不能很好的理解和运用法律，势必会造成冤案、错案。因此，在刑法制度和司法工作中，对“村官”涉嫌职务犯罪涉及的法律适用问题进行深入的研究和分析．具有非常重要的意义。     

Regulation through titling laws: A case study of occupational regulation

This case study examines a form of occupational regulation infrequently examined in academic literature – titling laws. These laws regulate who may legally use a phrase, or title, to describe their work to the public. Focusing on the interior design industry, this article demonstrates how industry leaders use titling laws as the first step in a push for full occupational licensure. In so doing, they allege a need for regulation out of concern for public health and safety, but as data in this case study indicate, there appears to be no threat to public health and safety from unregulated interior designers. Instead, designers advocate for increased regulation of their own industry, through the evolution of titling laws to full licensure, due to the benefits it affords them.