Trading in development: norms and institutions in the making/unmaking of European Union–African,Caribbean and Pacific trade and development cooperation

This paper offers a contribution to recent debates on European Union (EU) external trade and development policy, with a specific focus on the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries. The question asked is why the EU encountered such difficulties in the attempt to translate its normative preferences for freer trade and closer economic integration into a series of binding agreements? Drawing on both economic constructivist and historical institutionalist insights, it is argued that the case for reform initially rested on a strong convergence between institutions and ideas, enabling the EU to discursively present desired policy reforms as necessary to satisfy World Trade Organisation trade rules. However, in due course, the institutional dynamics behind the latter began to diverge from the EU's policy preferences and blunt its norm-based argument – thus creating the space for transnational coalitions to, first, question and, ultimately, undermine aspects the EU's trade and development prospectus for the ACP.     

Regime type versus patronal politics: a comparison of “ardent democrats” in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan is home to the longest serving ruler in post-Soviet Eurasia while Kyrgyzstan is among the region’s most competitive polities. Do these regime differences correspond to divergence in political attitudes, as an extensive body of literature posits? Are Kyrgyzstanis more likely to strongly support democratic ideals? Are Kazakhstanis less likely? Contrary to expectations, data reveal the two populations to be attitudinally indistinguishable when it comes to strong support for practices associated with democracy. Whatever country differences we find are minor or statistically insignificant. We explain this convergence by shifting focus away from the political features that distinguish the two nascent democracy versus consolidated authoritarianism to those that they hold in common. Notwithstanding major constitutional reform in Kyrgyzstan in 2010, politics there, as in Kazakhstan, remains fundamentally patronal, or patronage- based. Mass attitudes, we argue, align in many ways with the countries’ shared patronal politics, rather than with their contrasting regime types.     

特殊防卫制度若干问题研究

我国刑法中的特殊防卫制度在打击犯罪、保障人权方面起到了积极的作用,但由于其在刑法典中的规定不够严谨,长期以来在司法实践过程中存在诸多争议。因此有必要对特殊防卫制度中存在的若干疑难问题,如特殊防卫条款法律术语的含义、特殊防卫的主体、权限、举证责任等,加以研究、解释,以维护法制的统一和权威。     

Integration of the Family Therapy Specialist into Public School Pupil Personnel Services

SUMMARY

The integration of a full-time family counseling specialist into the Pupil Personnel Service (PPS) Team of the modern public school is described. The roles of the present specialists are delineated as well as the problems inherent within the present Pupil Personnel Services Team. Inclusion of a family counseling specialist on the PPS Team would help schools avoid the antagonist position they find themselves in when a family opposes their suggestions and interventions. In such cases, the PPS Team attempts to wrest control of the case from the parents which subjugates the family, limiting the family's inherent resilience and strength. The family comes to resent the PPS Team, seeing them as blameful and controlling. Conversely, the PPS Team comes to resent the family, claiming it is “dysfunctional” in some way and using diagnostic labels to satisfy themselves that their “expert” actions are justified. This antagonist position in the schools arises more out of fear of litigation than good case management. We propose a new integration of family system and school system. Creation of a family counseling specialist who is highly trained in systems, narrative and structural/strategic family therapy could ameliorate this antagonist problem. Numerous functions for such a new specialty are listed as well as suggestions for including this member into PPS Team work.     

论我国核心预算机构之构建

整个预算过程中,在行政机关内部确立核心的预算机构,对预算编制和预算执行具有重要意义。应当重视非行政机关预算案的编制问题,应将财政体制改革提升到政治体制改革的高度,整合财政部和国家发改委的职能,确立起核心预算机构,实现预算过程与政策过程的统一,保证预算权力运转的统一性、权威性,推动预算法治的实现。     

中国特色社会主义的再认识——从“五种社会形态说”的突破与创新谈起

"五种社会形态说"把马克思的相关论述不当地扩大了适用范围和理论外延,并作为理论公式被机械地套用。这样不仅无法解释大量历史现象,而且也造成了理论上的混乱。文明类型学说是对它的突破和创新:扩展了考察视野,转换了理论视角,变"单线发展"为"多线互动",纠正了传统社会发展理论机械论的倾向,使马克思主义关于社会形态和社会发展的理论更加符合实际,更加具有解释力。文明类型学说对于认识世界社会主义运动实践、特别是中国特色社会主义具有重要的理论意义。     

浅析经济犯罪侦查的专门技术手段

当前,经济犯罪增多,并日趋智能化和职业化。经济犯罪侦查部门如仍沿用刑事侦查的普通侦查手段,已很难适应当前经侦工作的要求。因而,经侦部门必须拥有一套自己的专门技术性侦查手段。只有这样,才能更加有力地打击经济犯罪,维护社会主义市场经济的稳定和繁荣。     

打击网络犯罪 构建和谐社会

文章围绕和谐社会建设中打击网络犯罪这一主题,具体列举了当前网络犯罪的各种类型,分析了现实生活中网络犯罪所呈现的特点,前瞻性地提出了网络的发展动向,并深刻揭示了目前全球打击网络犯罪所面临的各种问题和世界各国在这方面所采取的战略对策,为打击网络犯罪提供了全面而清晰的思路。     

对硅橡胶法提取特殊物体表面汗潜手印的研究

对于某些特殊物体(球形锁、饮料瓶瓶体等)表面遗留手印的提取、实验发现,利用硅橡胶提取上述特殊物体表面的手印效果很好,而且模型能保持指纹的特征稳定,便于检验鉴定。在提取特殊物体表面的汗潜手印时,胶带纸提取法与硅橡胶提取法相比存在着一些缺陷。用胶带纸法提取的手印在手印的某些部位会出现气泡、乳突纹线中断的现象,影响了指纹特征的再现。而硅橡胶这种物质可以很好地贴合在特殊物体的表面,将手印完整地提取下来。     

论职业教育的非学校形态

职业教育的形态是职业教育在一定条件下的表现形式。职业教育的非学校形态主要有学徒制形态和各类职业培训形态。学徒制是一种永远不会消亡的职业教育形态,职业培训形态源于学徒制,职业培训是职业学校不可替代的,应给予应有的重视。探讨职业教育各种非学校形态的发展过程、管理模式和培养目标以及它们相互之间的关系,对职业教育适应时代需要,培养合格人才具有重要意义。