Branding and Franchising a Public Policy: The Case of the Gateway Review Process 2001–2010

One of the more interesting features of contemporary policy‐making is the way in which certain policies and administrative processes have been branded. While this is not yet a common feature, it does appear to be one that is increasing in importance. This article looks at the phenomenon through a consideration of one particularly interesting case; the Gateway Review Process (subsequently Gateway), a policy with a related set of administrative processes which is both branded and franchised. Gateway also seems a successful example of a much more common feature of contemporary policy making: policy transfer. It has been transferred from the UK to five Australian jurisdictions, New Zealand and Holland. This article examines the extent to which the branding, and indeed the franchising, of Gateway is responsible for the putative success of that transfer. We begin with a very brief consideration of the literature on branding and franchising to situate our discussion, before outlining the ways in which branding and politics intersect. In the main part of the article we focus on the branding of public policy and on the Gateway case.     

试论英汉思维的互相影响

随着全球化的发展,英语学习已成为热潮。汉语对英语学习的影响也越来越受到关注。迁移理论、中介语理论以及中式英语的出现都说明母语对外语学习的重要影响,其本质则为思维的影响,而外语学习对母语的影响则很少被人关注。熟知英汉思维的相互影响,有助于学习者更好地交替使用这两种语言。     

操控的正义与法律的信仰——对《失控的陪审团》的解读

本文从《失控的陪审团》和《十二怒汉》两部以陪审团制度为核心的电影出发,着重讨论了三个具有制度性意义和实效性意义的问题。第一,当一项制度以人为核心构成要素时,人性的弱点常常将看似有效的制度瞬间摧毁,而操控人性恰是达成这一效果的重要手段。第二,通过分工效率、协调增进理论以及政治风险转移理论客观分析了陪审团制度的优势以及其内生性不足之处,这为试图操控陪审团以操控司法判决结果留下了寄生的空间。第三,虽然以陪审团制度为代表的一系列司法制度都存在着无法避免或者至今仍不完善的特点,但在现代法治条件下,有时需要的是一种对法律的信仰,这种信仰好过质疑,更好过那些个人英雄主义的正义追求者们。     

我国土地流转信托的若干法律问题研究

土地流转信托是我国农村土地流转方式的创新。土地流转信托是舶来品,国内尚无相关的法律法规进行规制,实践过程中存在土地确权不完整、缺乏完备的法律依据、欠缺有效的监督机制等问题。本文立足于当前国内土地流转信托的实践,从实证的角度对土地流转信托的若干法律问题进行研判,建议尽快完善土地信托配套制度和法律体系。     

新型城镇化背景下农村土地承包经营权流转的实践治理机制探索

城镇化的发展水平是衡量一个国家或地区经济发展程度的重要标志.党的十八届三中全会已作出了“健全城乡发展一体化体制机制”的决策.城镇化是一个系统工程,既要消除城乡内部的二元结构,促进工业生产创新和升级,又要重视新型城镇化建设中的中小城镇建设.在新型城镇化建设过程中,最重要的问题是调整农村土地要素,促进农村土地流转的健康有序发展.本文基于新型城镇化建设的时代要求,分析了农村土地承包经营权流转中存在的问题,探索了新型城镇化背景下农村土地承包经营权流转的实践治理机制.     

论公共交通中转所的堵截勤务

堵截是公安机关在犯罪嫌疑人和犯人逃跑方向的前方进行设卡或设伏拦堵的一项警察勤务,其作用是缉拿在逃的犯罪嫌疑人和逃犯、协助查破案件。在公共交通中转场所实施堵截勤务包括车站、码头、机场设卡堵截勤务、嫌疑车辆的堵截勤务等。     

A walk in to the cloud and cloudy it remains: The challenges and prospects of ‘processing’ and ‘transferring’ personal data

Cloud computing is an information technology technique that promises greater efficiency and reduced-cost to consumers, businesses and public institutions. However, to the extent it has brought better efficiency and minimal cost, the emergence of cloud computing has posed a significant regulatory challenge on the application of data protection rules particularly on the regime regulating cross-border data flow. The Data Protection Directive (DPD), which dates back to 1995, is at odds with some of the basic technological and business-related features of the cloud. As a result, it is claimed that the Directive hardly offers any help in using the legal bases to ‘process’ and ‘transfer’ data as well as to determine when a transfer to a third country occurs in cloud computing. Despite such assertions, the paper argues that the ECJ's Bodil Lindqvist decision can to a certain extent help to delineate circumstances where transfer should and should not occur in the cloud. Concomitantly, the paper demonstrates that controllers can still make the most of the available possibilities in justifying their ‘processing’ as well as ‘transferring’ of data to a third country in cloud arrangements. In doing so, the paper also portrays the challenges that arise down the road. All legal perspectives are largely drawn from EU level though examples are given from member states and other jurisdictions when relevant.     

Legislative Waiver Reconsidered: General Deterrent Effects of Statutory Exclusion Laws Enacted Post‐1979

In recent years, the juvenile justice system has undergone a “get tough” transformation. One component of the system which has experienced substantial alteration is the mechanism by which states allow for the waiver of juvenile offenders to adult criminal court. Most of the state systems now have some form of transfer procedure in place and many allow for the automatic transfer (or statutory exclusion) of juveniles who have been charged with certain offenses. Although the effects of waiver laws on individuals have received much empirical attention, their effects on the respective states’ aggregate level violent juvenile crime rates are less understood. In this study, we examine the relative effects of legislative waiver laws in 22 states that have added statutory exclusion provisions since 1979. In doing so, we assess whether legislative waiver should be reconsidered.     

《2010年国际贸易术语解释通则》与《销售合同公约》货物风险转移原则的牵连性与独立性

《联合国国际货物销售合同公约》作为国际贸易的统一实体法,创设的货物风险转移原则较为笼统性,因而为最新的国际贸易术语统一惯例《2010年国际贸易术语解释通则》预留了足够的空间。尽管强制法限制惯例的约定,但两种规则并不冲突,彼此之间相辅相承。秉承公约的传统,同时利用国际贸易惯例的功能,改革与完善国际货物买卖和运输交接货的责任界定与风险转移,是国际商会对于《2010年国际贸易术语解释通则》的杰出奉献。     

论“土地财政”的效应、成因及其法律解决之道

“土地财政”是指地方政府在财政资金短缺的情况下,主要利用土地出让法律制度和土地税费法律制度来获取财政收入以充实本地政府财源的行为.地方政府的“土地财政”行为引发了正负两方面的效应,对负效应的分析显然更为重要.地方政府的“土地财政”行为有其深刻的制度成因.解决“土地财政”的法律措施是完善财政收支法律制度,合理配置中央和地方的财政权限;改革和完善财政转移支付法律制度;改革现行的土地制度和土地征收制度.