Governing Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction: The Case of Pennsylvania

Over the past decade, directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing enabled an unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) boom in many regions of the United States, including parts of Pennsylvania. This revolution has created serious concerns about the capability of existing institutions to govern important societal outcomes associated with UOGE. We present a conceptual framework for assessing key societal outcomes influenced by UOGE governance. In applying this framework to Pennsylvania, we discern certain institutional strengths that have allowed the Commonwealth to reap appreciable short‐term economic growth from rich resource endowments. We also find, however, that several institutional weaknesses have allowed costs externalized to the environment, public health, and community integrity to offset some proportion of those economic benefits. Likewise, we find that governance of UOGE in Pennsylvania has contributed to a bifurcated sociopolitical landscape wherein adversarial coalitions dispute the legitimacy of the industry and its governance.     

Between regulatory field structuring and organizational roles: Intermediation in the field of sustainable urban development

Recent contributions in the domains of governance and regulation elucidate the importance of rule‐intermediation (RI), the role that organizations adopt to bridge actors with regulatory or “rulemaking” roles and those with target or “rule‐taking” roles. Intermediation not only enables the diffusion and translation of regulatory norms, but also allows for the representation of different actors in policymaking arenas. While prior studies have explored the roles that such RIs adopt to facilitate their intermediation functions, we have yet to consider how field‐level structuring processes influence (and are influenced by) the various and changing roles adopted by RI. In this study we focus on the mutually constitutive relations between field‐level change processes and the evolving roles of RIs by studying the rise of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)/Local Governments for Sustainability, an RI serving as a bridge for sustainable urban development policies between the United Nations and local authorities. Using ICLEI as an illustrative case, we theorize four different processes of regulatory field structuration: problematization, role specialization, marketization, and orchestrated decentralization. We discuss their implications for RI roles in the field and further theorize the changing dynamics of trickle‐up intermediation processes as an RI gains power and influence.     

农村教育：问题与对策

随着我国农村经济状况的不断好转,农村教育环境和水平也在不断地提高,但我们必须清醒地认识到农村教育还存在投入不足、与城市教育差距加大、教师整体素质不高等问题。为此,我们应增加多元化教育投入,改善分配体制;认真落实国家各项政策,提高教师素质;净化社会风气,为学生提供良好的学习环境。     

努力培养适应农村工作的大学生村官

实现大学生村官和农村工作的无缝对接,需要从源头上提高大学生对新农村建设的适应性,也就是要重视高校母体对大学生村官素质的培育工作。为此,要加强思想教育,培养大学生立志建设农村的情感;设置就业指导课,使大学生通过课堂了解党和国家的农业农村政策;通过暑期社会实践活动,使大学生实地感受农村生活;建立大学生与农村农民联系制度,促进大学生岗前转型;将农民代表请进课堂,使大学生不断加深对农村的了解。     

农村土地承包经营权流转中赔偿责任机制研究

政府和集体组织经常对市场主体的交易行为作出具有一定事实上强制性的引导,在农地流转领域,类似的违法性引导时有发生,但目前的民事和行政诉讼难以将政府和集体组织纳入到被引导方发起的索赔诉讼中,本文建议立法通过建立经济法责任的方式,在一次诉讼中集中化解各方主体的利益纠纷,不仅保护农民等市场主体的利益,强化了政府等单位的市场引导行为的合法性意识,而且也降低诉讼成本,防止群体性事件的发生。     

论通货膨胀

随着社会经济的发展，国内国际环境更加复杂多变，通货膨胀现象越来越严重。如何使通货膨胀率控制在可控范围并成为经济发展的润滑剂就显得越发重要。中国作为社会主义大国可以运用经济手段、行政手段、加强法制管理等方法进行综合治理，从而走出世界经济危机的阴影，实现经济的稳步发展，并逐步提高在国际事务中的地位。     

Understanding Migration: The Case for Public Administration

ABSTRACT

Migration has emerged as a key issue for governments in the 21^st century. While multiple disciplines address migration, the study of public administration has been slow to do so. Given the complexities of migration policy implementation, and the multiple levels of government involved, public administration can add significantly to the current understandings of the phenomenon. This article examines what is known on migration, what still needs to be understood, and how public administration can assist in understanding migration.     

新生代农民工与城乡统筹的内在逻辑及耦合路径

新农村建设和新型城镇化既是中国农村发展的两大主题，也是驱动中国城乡统筹发展及现代化建设的两个巨轮。愿意返乡创业的新生代农民工是新农村建设的内生动力，实现返乡新生代农民工在县域城镇的市民化梦想则是新型城镇化的重要标尺。政府创造条件响应其诉求，是城乡统筹的实践突破和人文回归。     

晚清吏治的腐败与洋务运动的失败

晚清洋务运动时期，清政府为追求富强，花费巨额资金引进西方技术、设备、创办了一批近代企业。然而，由于整个官场吏治腐败得不到肃清，这些企业内部也相应存在着盲目决策、任用私人、管理混乱、贪污舞弊等弊端，使企业难以发挥应有的作用，最终导致洋务运动走向失败。这段史实，为在实现现代化过程中如何处理政治改革与发展经济的关系这一关键的问题，提出了重要的经验教训。     

从公权力参与谈我国农村土地流转中职务犯罪预防——以皖东D县的调研数据为依据

农村土地流转是农村土地承包经营权由作为承包方的村民向其他主体流转的过程。它作为市场经济的重要产物,在实施的过程中不可避免地伴随着一定的经济风险和法律风险。其中,法律风险的内容之一就是农村土地流转中职务犯罪的发生。经调研发现,公权力对农村土地流转的参与可谓"无孔不入",其背后潜藏的是职务犯罪大量发生的可能性。因此,有必要还原农村土地流转的市场性,依法规范公权力对农村土地流转的参与,并加强对公权力参与农村土地流转的监督,进而从根本预防农村土地流转中职务犯罪的发生。