关于北京金融功能区建设的初步探索

本文对金融功能区这一概念进行了界定,在对西城区金融街和朝阳区CBD这两个金融功能区进行实证分析的基础上,指出了存在着资源整合利用不够、规划指导不到位,主导产业不突出、政策支持不到位,产业配套设施不完善、金融发展环境有待优化等问题,提出了统筹规划、合理布局,整合首都优势资源、发展总部经济,加强配套设施建设、优化发展环境等建议。     

Who Governs and How? Non-State Actors and Transnational Governance in Southeast Asia

ABSTRACT

This special issue focuses on transnational governance, essentially cross-border networked forms of co-ordination in which non-state, or private, actors play important or leading roles in providing standards, rules and practices that other actors voluntarily abide by. While not denying the pre-eminent role of the state in governance, we nonetheless believe there is an under-estimation of transnational governance in Southeast Asia and the varied governance role played by non-state actors that go beyond that of simply acting as pressure or advisory groups lobbying or advising states and regional organisations. We provide five different case studies that explore in detail the varied governance roles played by non-state actors using the common analytical framework set out in this introduction. The case studies reveal interesting variations in the architecture of transnational governance, why they emerge, the modes of social co-ordination through which they work to shape actor behaviour and achieve impact, their normative implications, and how these governance schemes intersect with the state and national regulatory frameworks. This special issue, thus, highlights the variegated architecture of governance in this region in which non-state actors play substantial governance roles regulating the conduct of other actors.     

论公安机关在构建和谐社会中职能作用的发挥

构建社会主义和谐社会是一项宏大而长远的系统工程。公安机关在这一伟大工程中负有神圣使命与重大历史责任。为此,必须深刻理解和谐社会的内在涵义,找准公安工作的切入点,从根本上解决在影响构建和谐社会过程中出现的诸多问题,充分发挥公安机关的职能作用,为构建和谐社会服务。     

试论我国检察制度的完善

我国检察制度具有专门性、依法性、权威性、规范性、程序性等特点,它的建立与发展具有其历史必然性和现实合理性。由于现行法律的不完善、检察权的依法独立行使缺乏制度保障、检察监督的手段单一以及检察队伍的素质不足等因素的存在,影响和制约了检察权威的树立、职能的发挥。文章认为,应在立法上进一步完善我国检察制度、健全发挥检察职能的内外部机制,在实践中强化检察职能的各项手段、提高检察队伍的综合素质,全方位构建中国特色的检察法律监督制度。     

Applying Functional Analysis to the Case of a Malfunctioning Education System: Addressing System Complexity and Tangled Causes

A 4-year decline culminating in a collapse of school leaver exam results sent shockwaves through the Tanzanian state education system. Students and citizens attribute the collapse to visible deficiencies in classroom teaching, which is the product of a complex, government-administered system of teacher training colleges, schools, schools inspectorate, an examinations council, and a curriculum development institution. A model of the system is constructed and ‘interrogated’ to establish a research framework of key questions and propositions for functional analysis and evaluation of the system.     

Behind closed doors: the effect of pretrial publicity on jury deliberations

Abstract

Effective treatment of aggressive behaviour and accurate release decision making are necessary components of adequate clinical practice in forensic psychiatric units. Unfortunately, methods to identify treatment targets and ameliorate aggressive behaviour have developed at a slower pace than risk assessment technologies. Recent progress on the identification of offence paralleling or functionally equivalent behaviour offers a framework for individually tailored treatment and idiographic release decision making, although empirical scrutiny of this approach is inadequate. This paper describes an examination of the relationship between aggressive behaviour prior to admission with aggression during inpatient psychiatric treatment, and reconviction for violent offending following discharge. Results showed a relationship between pre- and post-admission aggression but no relationship between aggression during inpatient psychiatric treatment with either pre-admission aggressive behaviour or violent recidivism. These findings indicate the importance of state psychological variables, specifically those states affected by symptoms of psychiatric illness, as well as environmental activators and inhibitors of violence that operate within the hospital. These require inclusion in an adequate functional analysis of aggressive behaviour for forensic psychiatric patients.     

(Anti) Queer: Introduction

Thumbnail images depicting the face of a social actor were the most common type of image used in hard-news stories on the home page of the Sydney Morning Herald online (smh online), a high-circulation Australian daily broadsheet, between 2002 and 2006. While not all online newspapers use such images to the same extent as the smh online, close-up thumbnails of faces are commonplace on online newspaper home pages in general. This paper examines the use of these “thumbnail faces” on the smh online home page. Over four years (and across four page-design periods), these images were used more frequently, despite the fact that they function in a very different way to traditional hard-news images. Thumbnail faces cannot “tell stories”, nor “provide evidence”, but they play an important interpersonal role in individual news stories, collectively on the home page, and over time in the discursive relationship between the smh online and its readership.     

既判力主观范围扩张的域外样本与中国路径

既判力是大陆法系国家及地区民事诉讼立法和理论的基本概念。现代社会经济关系的日益复杂对既判力主观范围的扩张提出了要求,对此,我国立法及理论却鲜有涉及。立法的空白、与诉讼法内部理论体系的不契合以及与实体法理论体系的衔接不当,导致了其在实际适用中的混乱。德、日、我国台湾地区均以立法的形式明确了既判力主观范围的扩张,学说对其类型化的分析也相当成熟。我们应当以大陆法系国家及地区的域外样本为参照,构建既判力主观范围扩张的中国图景。     

涉外继承案件专属管辖考

涉外继承案件是否属于专属管辖范围,从我国《民事诉讼法》的规定看,答案似乎是肯定的,但理论上存有相当大的争议,且实践中,这样的理解也难以变成实际操作。纵观大陆法系德日法等国家立法,将涉外继承案件列入专属管辖范围实属罕见。就国内层面而言,专属管辖可以从法院职能角度和案件特殊性角度进行广义理解,但在国际层面,尤其涉及司法裁决域外承认与执行问题的时候,专属管辖范围的限制就尤为重要;因此,有关不动产物权、法人清算或破产、知识产权诉讼等专属某国法院管辖的观点和做法,日益成为各国普遍认可的事实。从这个角度来看,我们更应审视我国现有规定,从而为涉外继承寻找出合理的法律地位。     

政府系统副职职能转型、规模控制与组织法治

改革政府系统副职现状,是政府机构改革的有机部分,是政府组织、法治化、科学化的基本要求。加快政府组织法治化进程,完善政府组织法的框架和内容,在政府职能转变的基础上继续推进"大部制"改革,提升部门地位和权能,实现政府系统副职职能转型和规模控制,对于推进法治政府建设和实现政府组织体系科学化,具有重大的现实意义。