中国地方政府对中韩建交的影响——以山东省的作用为例

随着中国改革开放进程的深入,地方分权和国际化两种力量不仅使得中国地方政府的地位和作用更加突出,也使它成为国际舞台上的一员。以山东省为代表的地方政府出于扩大与韩国双边贸易和吸引韩国投资的经济需要,极力向中央政府＂陈情＂和＂游说＂,从而为中韩两国关系的正常化发挥了积极的作用,推动了中韩建交的早日实现。以山东省在中韩建交中的作用为案例,可以看出改革开放以来地方政府在中国总体外交中开始扮演日益重要的角色。但是,如何在地方与中央的多重决策中既充分纳入地方合理的利益诉求,又维护中国这个单一制国家的中央权威,将是今后中国外交需要考虑的重要问题。     

Regional legislatures and national lawmaking

Recent work has noted the supposedly ‘exceptional’ constitutional authority of sub-national legislatures in Mexico to introduce legislative initiatives into the national congress. Rather than a mechanism unique to Mexico, however, this debate article notes other states’ constitutions with similar provisions, drawing on data from the Comparative Constitutions Project, as well as a new dataset on lawmaking in the Russian Federation. The article calls for a new collaborative research agenda to explore the involvement of sub-national legislatures in national-level lawmaking.     

Political repression in a sub-national hybrid regime: the PRC’s governing strategies in Hong Kong

Existing literature has long recognised that the Beijing government has utilised different strategies to suppress the opposition in Hong Kong. However, with the rise of localism against the Chinese government, the implications of such political repression require new exploration and insight. This article adopts Hale’s analytical framework on political repression and argues that the Beijing government can comparatively tolerate an opposition fighting for democratisation, but the localists who advocate self-determination or separatism are harshly condemned and suppressed. In Beijing’s approach, this ‘red line’ was adopted to place national security, territory integration and sovereignty as the top considerations. Theoretically, this paper contributes to distinguishing between two types of opposition groups within sub-national hybrid regimes and analyzes different responses from the sovereign state. Empirically, the case of Hong Kong will help enrich the existing literature by comparing Beijing’s strategies of repression in regard to the democratic opposition and localists.     

The Correlates of Corruption in India: Analysis and Evidence from the States

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