Creating Settings for Youth Empowerment and Leadership: An Ecological Perspective

Youth development programs are increasingly focusing on youth empowerment and leadership, a shift which often requires adult staff to adopt new roles and practices. This article explores staff practice in the context of a multisite initiative designed to engage marginalized youth in social change through youth-led grants. Interviews with youth workers and managers revealed practices at multiple ecological levels. Individual-level practices supported youths’ capacities to participate. Group-level practices fostered social interactions and activities that actualized the youth-led approach. Setting-level practices created structures that supported and protected group activities while organization-level practices promoted a favorable environment for youth leadership. Analyzed from an ecological and activity settings perspective, these results contribute to understanding the multifaceted and complex nature of youth work in power-sharing practice models. Practice implications include identifying training needs to help practitioners navigate across multiple ecological levels and suggesting reflection questions for practitioners.     

The political economy of labor market deregulation during IMF interventions

This study examines the relationship between policy interventions by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and de jure labor rights. Combining two novel data sets with unprecedented country-year coverage – leximetric data on labor laws and disaggregated data on IMF conditionality – our analysis of up to 70 developing countries from 1980 to 2014 demonstrates that IMF-mandated labor market policy measures significantly reduce both individual and collective labor rights. Once we control for the effect of labor market policy measures, however, we find that collective labor rights increase in the wake of IMF programs. We argue that this result is explained by the impact of union pressure on governments which, in such a context, are imbued with the policy space to respond to domestic interest groups. The study has broader theoretical implications as to when international organizations are effective in constraining governments’ choices.     

A Model for Female-Perpetrated Domestic Violence

Child abuse often coexists with intimate partner violence. However, limited studies incorporate both phenomena in a single study. Moreover, the examination of female-on-male violence is an important development. Hence, an intrinsic case study of domestic violence is presented to provide insights regarding the nature and impact of female-perpetrated violence. The research approach was qualitative and demonstrated that a model for abusive behavior seems to be similar for both sexes. The data revealed theoretical trends such as the reality of an intergenerational transmission of violence into adulthood, as well as abusive partners presenting with borderline traits.     

关于农民工权益保障问题的研究与思考

农民工在为促进城乡发展、建设现代化国家作贡献的同时,自身权益保障问题日益突出,成为社会广泛关注的焦点。要从构建社会主义和谐社会的高度充分认识农民工权益保障问题的重要性,加大立法与执法力度,建立健全维权机制,提高农民工整体素质,形成党政主导、各方齐抓共管的农民工维权格局。     

新生代农民工精神文化需求问题探析

新生代农民工作为一个新兴的群体,是实现构建和谐社会伟大战略的重要推动者。随着社会的不断发展,新生代农民工对精神文化的需求将呈现一个不断上升的趋势,但是,在多元文化、经济收入、社会制度、自身条件等因素的影响下,新生代农民工在思想文化、娱乐文化、科技服务、社会交往等方面的精神文化需求却难以得到满足。解决这些问题需要政府、社会、企业以及新生代农民工主体等多方面共同努力。     

论遗嘱受益回避简

遗嘱受益回避，即因特定角色之承担从而能对他人遗嘱的成立或生效产生重要影响的入，不得从该他人遗嘱中受益。遗嘱受益回避的适用对象，包括遗嘱订立时遗嘱人的监护人、医疗人员和参与遗嘱订立的见证人、公证人及起草人，以及前列人员的配偶、直系血亲和兄弟姐妹。遗嘱受益回避的除外情形为：前述人员与遗嘱人之间有配偶、直系血亲或兄弟姐妹关系；即使某见证人或公证人没有参与，遗嘱也能有效成立；遗嘱起草人被列为受益人时，遗嘱人已征询无利害关系律师的独立意见。     

德国家政服务法律制度研究

随着我国经济社会的持续发展,家政服务已然发展成为了一个蓬勃的产业。但是,调整家政服务的法律制度却凤毛麟角,法学理论界也少有对此问题的深入分析。德国作为世界上最发达国家之一,其在劳动法律制度方面享有盛誉,因此对于德国有关家政服务法律制度进行综合考察应该是能够为我国建立一套科学的家政服务法律制度提供借鉴经验的。     

农民工文化生活性别差异研究——以福建省为例

利用2010年福建省农民工文化生活状况调查数据,从性别角色、资源交换和生命周期三种理论入手,分析了福建省农民工文化生活在婚姻、年龄、教育程度和经济收入因素影响下的时间、金钱投入及文化活动种类方面的性别差异,并就研究结论提出有针对性的建议。     

中国传统法治理论的现代审视──评先秦法家之法势关系

先秦法定以势行法，以法固势，主张势由君主独制，法由君臣共操，然而这种法治思想及其实践，不但没有化解法势之间的内在矛盾，反而使势强法弱之局面不可避免。以史为鉴，建立、健全民主政治，法律才真正具有权威、尊严。