Harming America: Corporate Crime in a Context of Deregulation

ABSTRACT

Like many Republican presidential candidates before him, Donald J. Trump campaigned on a pro-business, anti-regulation platform, and since his election in November 2016, he has directed his administration to move forward with deregulation in many arenas, including consumer financial protections, environmental controls, and workplace safety among others. Past efforts to roll back regulations governing certain industries, such as the savings and loan and the mortgage industries, have had harmful consequences for the general public or for specific interest groups. In this study, we review what the Trump administration has accomplished with regard to deregulation to date. Then, based on past deregulatory fiascos, we theorize the harmful collateral consequences that may result from this most recent swing of the regulatory-deregulatory pendulum.     

Inclusivity in Online Platforms: Recruitment Strategies for Improving Participation of Diverse Sociodemographic Groups

Governments are increasingly implementing smart and digital approaches to promoting citizen participation. However, whether online participation platforms are tools that improve inclusivity in citizen participation remains underexplored. To address this gap, this article focuses on the role of recruitment messages and their effect on participation in an online participation platform by gender and age. A field experiment with a neighborhood census sample (N = 6,066) shows that online participation dips for younger and older citizens and is equal among women and men. For the age groups between 60 and 75, differences in the control and intervention recruitment messages significantly impacted participation. These findings can help public managers tailor recruitment strategies to facilitate inclusive participation and represent a first step toward learning what types of messages are effective for whom.     

撑起儿童照顾的“半边天”——对父职实践的社会学考察

随着现代育儿理念的不断渗透,父亲参与儿童照顾的现象和行动越来越多。父亲关爱、全职爸爸、奶爸等新的父亲形象与父职实践不断涌现,新旧父职话语与父职实践正在同一时空上演。儿童照顾中父亲参与的增多,与全面二孩政策的实施、同伴群体的示范带动、社会福利政策的推动、女性参与劳动力市场竞争和男性照顾的优势地位发挥等息息相关。更好地促进儿童健康成长,需要唤醒儿童照顾上的父职自觉,让更多的父亲参与到儿童照顾实践中来、确保父爱在场,竭力撑起儿童照顾的"半边天"。     

习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的内在逻辑与意义探析

党的十八大以来,以习近平同志为核心的党中央通过艰辛的理论和实践探索,形成了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想。中国共产党在指导思想上的与时俱进,是我们党生命力、创造力的重要体现,更是党团结带领全国各族人民决胜全面建成小康社会,全面建设社会主义现代化强国的行动指南。科学把握习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的内在逻辑、核心要义与重大意义,有助于进一步增强"四个自信",为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦提供理论指引和实践指南。     

法医学尸体检验职业防护指南(建议稿)

法医工作者的职业暴露风险极大,案件现场及尸体上的有毒有害物质、高致病性微生物以及利器、骨折等因素均可能给法医带来身心伤害甚至生命危险。随着经济社会发展,法医的工作环境已经较过去显著改善,但是针对个人防护的重视程度仍需提高。近年来公共卫生事件频发,给法医职业防护带来新的挑战,迫切需要借鉴生物安全领域的先进技术和防护理念,以满足新形势下法医工作的需要。本指南立足当前法医职业防护的实际需求,从暴露风险、防护分级、应急处置等角度阐述,希望能为制定法医职业防护相关标准提供参考,以指导法医工作者开展个人防护工作,为提升法医职业化水平和身心健康提供帮助。     

Directors’ duties under the 2019 Companies Act of Ghana

The scope of directors’ duties forms perhaps the most important part of corporate governance. This paper considers the trajectory of the regulation of directors’ duties under Ghanaian company law from the Companies Act, 1963 (Act 179) to the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992). Using the 2017 to 2019 financial institutions’ insolvencies in Ghana as a backdrop, it considers whether the scope, formulation and structure of directors’ duties within the new legislation is capable of promoting corporately-beneficial director behaviour. It also discusses whether the framework is apt to deal with similar lapses in corporate governance marked by reckless and opportunistic director behaviour. It discovers that Act 992 places a greater reliance on specific rules while retaining the largely principles-based regulatory technique adopted for regulating director conduct under Act 179. The overall tenor of the framework of directors’ duties under the new Act points to a firmer legislative view of the serious consequences of reckless director conduct. The paper concludes that the language of the framework regulating director conduct is capable of promoting corporately beneficially director behaviour and is also apt to deal with the kind of lapses in corporate governance which led to mass financial sector insolvencies in Ghana.     

Bringing the Falklands/Malvinas Home: Young People's Everyday Engagements with Geopolitics in Domestic Space

This paper draws on recent research examining feminist and everyday geopolitics to focus on the relatively neglected domestic sphere as a space where geopolitical events like the Falklands/Malvinas war are learnt, (re)produced, remembered and contested by young people. It presents qualitative data drawn from interviews with young people from Argentina (Río Gallegos) and the Falkland Islands (Stanley), locations with intimate connections to the 1982 war. It argues that research in domestic environments that engages the familial relations, objects and practices that embody geopolitical pasts can help make sense of how young people (are able to) express geopolitical agency.     

论全球化背景下现代化大都市中心城区发展战略趋向

在全球化背景下,国内外现代化大都市中心城区为增强城市在全球化竞争中的竞争力,在其区位功能定位、产业发展、环境优化和文化建设等方面均作过不懈的努力,提供了丰富的经验。总结这些努力和经验,大致可以了解当今现代化大都市中心城区的发展战略趋向。