The Stewardship Code's Achilles' Heel

Many concerned about UK corporate governance have urged those who own equity in listed companies to forsake a traditional bias in favour of passivity and act as responsible, engaged ‘owners’. The recent financial crisis has given added impetus to such calls, with the notion of ‘stewardship’ taking centre stage and resulting in July 2010 with the launch of a Stewardship Code targeting UK‐based institutional investors. This paper summarises the Stewardship Code initiative and argues that, primarily due to sustained fragmentation of share ownership occurring over the past 20 years, the Code is unlikely to foster substantially greater shareholder involvement in UK corporate governance.     

农村股份合作制企业构建及其公司治理法律机制研究——基于天津市宅基地换房实践的视角

我国一些地区农民以宅基地换房等方式进行农村土地流转尝试，牵涉到生产或生活方式的巨变。其中生产方式的载体按我国现行公司制度肯定不行，如果仍按农民原有的合作社组织恐怕也不行。能否把前两者嫁接起来。探索一种新的符合中国新农村特色的企业形态，这就需要地方或中央立法来探索，对现行企业制度包括治理结构和治理机制进行创新。所以，探索构建一种新型集体经济组织形式即农村股份合作制企业应不失为一种理想的制度选择。在构建农村股份合作制企业制度时，其中企业形态或地位、内外部治理机制、以及相应的风险保护机制等方面应是考虑的重点。在国家统一立法未出台之前．天津可利用国家赋予的先行先试政策．进行农村股份合作制企业的制度创新与试点。     

建立绿色会计核算体系初探

目前我国正处在经济高速增长期,年GDP增长率9%-11%,同时又造成了严重的环境污染,土地大规模沙化,空气质量下降,长江、黄河等七大水系都遭受到了前所未有的污染。因此,对环境破坏进行成因分析,建立绿色会计体系,计价、计量自然环境,才能达到遏制环境污染的目的。     

试论政府善治视域下我国行政问责制的建构

在我国目前的政治语境下，建立和实施行政问责制具有重要的现实意义。行政问责制是建设责任政府、推进民主政治的一个重要途径，也是实现政府良好治理的关键。然而，目前我国行政问责制在实践中仍面临异体问责薄弱、问责法律缺失、政府信息公开匮乏等诸多困境。因此，将成为加强异体问责，实现问责主体的多元化；健全行政问责的法律体系；推行政务公开，实现“阳光行政”。     

城市投资发展软环境评价体系研究——基于连云港的实证分析

加强投资发展软环境建设，改善软环境是区域经济发展的必要条件，也是经济欠发达地区实现跨越式发展最为紧要的任务。要改善投资发展软环境，需摸清投资发展软环境的真实状况，建构一套结合城市软环境自身特点的软环境评价体系。在考核评价体系的具体设计上要坚持多元化评价主体的选择，坚持差异化软环境评价对象的划分，坚持定性与定量相结合的评价指标的选取，坚持多样化评价方法的运用，坚持规范化城市投资发展软环境评价相关制度的建设。     

关注民生彰显党的执政理念和执政能力

始终把改善民生作为自己的历史责任，体现了中国共产党对执政规律的理性认识和自觉把握。关注民生彰显了中国共产党实事求是、以民为本、科学发展的执政理念，同时也彰显了党把握执政规律、满足人民群众利益要求、推动经济和社会发展等执政能力的提升。     

NONSHARED ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON ADOLESCENT DELINQUENT INVOLVEMENT AND ADULT CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR*

Findings gleaned from behavioral genetic research have revealed that nonshared environments are particularly important sources of behavioral variation. Surprisingly little criminological research has examined directly the effects of the nonshared environment on adolescent delinquent involvement and adult criminal behavior. The current study addressed this gap in the literature by calculating difference scores in a sample of 289 monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs to examine the effects of the nonshared familial environment on delinquent involvement, adult criminal behavior, levels of self‐control, and contact with antisocial peers. Analysis of MZ twin pairs from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) revealed that one nonshared family environment—maternal disengagement—was associated with delinquent involvement and the development of self‐control. The remaining nonshared familial environments, however, were not associated with antisocial outcomes. Implications of the findings are discussed.     

行业协会中强势会员的不正当行为

在行业协会内部,由于各企业在资财多寡、影响力大小等方面存有差异,因而有强势会员与中小会员之分。在利益的驱动下,强势会员可能利用自己的优势地位操纵和控制协会,侵害中小会员的利益,从而直接影响到行业协会的健康发展,因此,应当完善行业协会的内部治理结构,规范强势会员的不正当行为。     

Peer Consultation for Mediators: The Use of a Holding Environment to Support Mediator Reflection, Inquiry, and Self-Knowing

In order to help the parties in mediation address their interests, concerns, and responses to the conflict, the mediator must monitor and manage his or her own inner thoughts, emotions, and feelings throughout the process lest they negatively influence the outcomes of the mediation. Peer consultation offers one approach that can be used effectively to support the mediator's inquiry into practice dilemmas and invite self-knowing that benefits the mediator as well as the parties in the mediation. The effectiveness of a group consultation process, however, depends on the development of "a holding environment" that can provide a safe and confidential space within which such an inquiry can occur. The mediation process is improved when the mediator is able to sustain relational and emotional tension within herself and between the parties long enough for new understandings and actions to develop.     

生态补偿的法理分析

生态补偿旨在利用衡平原则对保护者和受益者、受害者和施害者之间的与生存权、环境权、发展权等权利相关的利益进行制度协调,从而对已破坏的生态环境给予补偿和恢复,使之能够达到或接近平衡状态,也使与此相关的各个主体之间的利益得以协调,衡平同样是基本权利的生存权、环境权、发展权等权利之间的不和谐和冲突。其法理基础是区域环境公正。