Citizen aid,social media and brokerage after disaster

Abstract

In a crisis, aid providers deliver humanitarian relief across a hierarchy of organisations where influence and capacity map to their scale of operations. On the front lines of crises, ‘citizen aid’ is what small, local and informal groups offer to fellow citizens. These citizen aid groups are well-networked in place and tend to work through longstanding personal relationships. In the Philippines, citizen aid groups frequently support their activities by documenting their work with photos of beneficiaries to solicit donations from within the country and around the world across social media platforms. This paper builds on recent debates on brokerage through a case study of citizen aid in the relief effort after Typhoon Haiyan (2013–2017). Using this case-study approach, we demonstrate how social media has produced novel forms of brokerage shaped by circulating images online. This new kind of brokerage involves a layered network of brokers that both shapes citizen aid efforts and creates new channels for localising aid, enhancing the control of citizen groups in the Global South over aid.     

论宪法规定公民权利宜用禁止性规则

虽然各国宪法对公民权利实际上有两种规定方式,一是采用禁止性规则,二是采用授权性规则,但从理论上分析,宜采用禁止性规则.从宪法学上来讲,禁止性规则符合宪法乃授权于国之法、权利先于宪法、宪法控制权力的观念;从立法学上来说,禁止性规则更能表达防范国家权力可能侵犯公民权利的目的;从解释学上来看,禁止性规则能够消除"宪赋人权"的误解.     

Flipping burgers or flipping pages? Student employment and academic attainment in post-Soviet Latvia

Latvian higher education has undergone a dramatic transition since 1991. This study employs a survey of nearly 1000 social science students studying in 13 different institutions in Latvia to consider the impact of the increase in the number of students who are working while studying. Evidence indicates employment has a strong and significant negative impact on school performance, and the negative impact increases as weekly hours worked increase. This manifests itself through reduced class attendance and reduced time spent in independent study. Finally, we find that the probability of student employment is most significantly affected by the availability of financial aid, gender, ethnicity, and age.     

法律援助的性质及其发展趋势

社会援助是为贫、弱者提供免费、减费法律服务的一种救助。法律援助是政府的责任,以社会法律援助作为补充。从发展趋势上看,法律援助应从法律救助逐步过渡到兼有救助和福利双重性质的制度,并应不断扩大援助范围、增加援助内容、科学划定援助标准。     

论权利主体

权利主体可以归结为两种基本形态--作为权利主体的自我(公民)和作为权利主体的大我(法人).个人只有取得公民的资格,拥有权利能力和行为能力,并拥有权利能力的指向物时,才能成为权利主体.大我是公意的人格化或人格体.在法人行使权利时,支配的自然过程与支配的社会过程必然发生分离.权利主体之间最基本的原则是:所有权的神圣不可侵犯、契约自由和权利主体在法律面前的平等.     

Mapping the production of political communications: a model to assist in understanding the relationships between the production and consumption of political messages

High public interest today in political communications such as ‘spin’ and in political participation such as electoral turnout suggests that there may be value in exploring the processes by which political messages are produced and consumed, and their inter‐relationship with participation. It may be that what citizen‐voters think of message production influences how they consume political news and publicity (through observing and evaluating), and that the propensity to political participation is subsequently affected. This paper offers a model which traces the production of political communications, starting at their origins in the political class, and flowing via traditional political journalism or controlled media and new media to citizen‐voters who both observe and evaluate them (ie consume them) before, during and after making any political choices. It is hypothesised that the observation and evaluation of message production and content by political consumers influences both their types and levels of participation. Research of this nature into political organisations is relatively rare. Similarly, there is little evidence of investigations into other aspects highlighted in the model: attitudes of the political class towards political communications, the production of political communications before they reach the media and how they are received by the media, and their consumption by citizen‐voters in relation to the propensity to participate in politics. Copyright © 2003 Henry Stewart Publications     

社会资本视角下中国善治问题研究

经济全球化和政治民主化浪潮的加速发展催生了社会对善治的诉求,但是,社会资本与善治之间存在着结构性制约与依赖的关系。我国政权的性质和谋求发展的政策取向决定了我国对善治的必然选择。目前,我国现代社会资本还相当缺失,制约了善治模式的普遍形成。发展公民社会的现代公民意识,增强公民的主体意识、权利意识和参与意识;发展公民社会的公共精神,提高公民社会的认同、信任、合作和互助水平;培育民间组织的发展,形成现代社会资本的网络结构,对于我国善治的普遍形成具有重要的意义。     

对台湾公投制宪的若干思考

本文从公民自决和民族自决的角度,对台独势力分裂祖国和民族的行径进行了批判。     

民法本位新论

民法本位是民法的根本指归.近、现民法本位未变,即都是权利本位、个人本位.个人本位比权利本位更为本原,称其为民为本位,则更确切.可在广义社会法下的经济法和行政法中确定社会本位乃至国家本位.民法本位是民法的出发点,民法价值是民法的归结点,均蕴含并体现在民法基本原则中.     

试论非传统威胁视角下中国公民海外安全

中国公民海外安全是一个多重因素结合而产生的现实问题。要从根本上消除公民海外活动中的安全隐患,既需要国际社会的共同合作和联合应对非传统威胁,更要公民提高自身安全意识和防范能力。中国警方应该结合国际安全环境和本国公民海外活动的特点,积极预防和强力应对。现阶段,建立海外公民安全保护警务机制,加强国际警务合作和提高领事保护能力是我国警方及相关部门的主要任务,同时也是维护中国公民海外安全的有效途径。