商标权与其在先权的权利冲突及解决方案的思考

商标权与其在先权的冲突现象危害严重,应予重视。但在先权的概念与特征尚未明晰,保护在先权原则又存在绝对化倾向,使冲突的解决效果差强人意。应研讨在先权的特征并合理分类,丰富解决冲突的规则。     

论非法证据的证据能力

非法证据的证据能力问题,涉及犯罪控制和人权保障、实体公正与程序正义的价值选择。对其证据能力的不同选择,直接关系到刑事诉讼目的的能否实现。在我国,对于非法证据的证据能力如何,理论界说法不一。从两大法系主要国家立法及实践,并结合我国立法现状及国情来看,非法证据排除规则的建立是我国诉讼民主化的必然要求。     

论自认效力否认之依据-基于“诚＂与“信”的法理展开

自认制度既是民事诉讼辩论原则的内在要求，也是当事人行使处分权的外在表现。自认对于争议之两造以及法院均产生约束力。自认免除了对方当事人对相关事实的证明责任；法院应将自认之事实作为判决的基础；而自认一方当事人应言而有信，不得撤回自认。否认自认效力的依据在于当事人对案件事实的承认严重背离了诚信原则的真实要求。自认效力的否认包括家事诉讼中对超越辩论主义和处分主义支配范围事实的承认、虚假诉讼中对以侵犯他人利益为目的的虚假事实的承认以及对违反众所周知事实的承认三种情形。自认效力的承认与否认型构了自认制度的基本框架，并共同承担向社会倡导诚实守信的良好行为风尚的功能。     

提升政府公信力的路径探析

政府公信力是政治合法性的重要基础,是市场经济有效运行的重要保障,更是社会稳定和发展的前提条件。在社会转型期的今天,应加快行政管理体制改革,坚定不移地发展社会主义民主政治,加快政治文化建设,提升政府公信力。     

论网络媒体公信力的塑造

互联网作为一种新兴的媒体，其社会影响力越来越大，但与传统媒体相比，其公信力较低已成为影响我国互联网健康发展的一个突出问题，也在很大程度上降低了网络媒体在受众心目中的应有地位。媒体的权威性、信息的原创性、内容的真实性、传播的即时性、格调的高雅性影响网络媒体的公信力。提高网络媒体公信力，需要政府、网络媒体、社会和公众的共同努力，主要包括：强化政府监管；加快制定和完善网络立法：加强网站自身建设；提高采编人员专业素质；报网结合；建立平民式舆论监管机构：树立人人都是把关人的理念；加强受众需求研究。     

Early Adolescents’ Social Standing in Peer Groups: Behavioral Correlates of Stability and Change

Sociometric nominations, social cognitive maps, and self-report questionnaires were completed in consecutive years by 327 students (56% girls) followed longitudinally from grade 7 to grade 8 to examine the stability of social standing in peer groups and correlates of changes in social standing. Social preference, perceived popularity, network centrality, and leadership were moderately stable from grade 7 to grade 8. Alcohol use and relational aggression in grade 7 predicted changes in social preference and centrality, respectively, between grade 7 and grade 8, but these effects were moderated by gender and ethnicity. Changes in social standing from grade 7 to grade 8 were unrelated to grade 8 physical aggression, relational aggression, and alcohol use after controlling for the grade 7 corollaries of these behaviors. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding links between social standing and problem behaviors during adolescence.

Perceptions of Racism and Depressive Symptoms in African American Adolescents: The Role of Perceived Academic and Social Control

Experiences with racism are a common occurrence for African American youth and may result in negative self perceptions relevant for the experience of depressive symptoms. This study examined the longitudinal association between perceptions of racism and depressive symptoms, and whether perceived academic or social control mediated this association, in a community epidemiologically-defined sample of urban African American adolescents (N = 500; 46.4% female). Structural equation modeling revealed that experiences with racism were associated with low perceived academic control, which in turn was associated with increased depressive symptoms. Findings suggest that experiences with racism can have long lasting effects for African American youth’s depressive symptoms, and highlight the detrimental effects of experiences with racism for perceptions of control in the academic domain. Implications for intervention are discussed.

Credibility Enacted: Understanding the Meaning of Credible Political Leadership in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Campaign of 2010

In times of perception politics, the credibility of electoral candidates is a crucial asset in political marketing. This raises the question to which political leaders citizens attribute credibility and how political credibility is gained and lost through media performance. We analyze and compare two contrasting cases during the Dutch parliamentary election campaign of 2010. Whereas in this campaign Mark Rutte—leader of the liberal party VVD—gained credibility, the credibility of Job Cohen—at the time, leader of the social-democratic PvdA—waned substantially. To understand this we extend the source credibility approach with a dramaturgical approach, and as such we shed light on what happens in the dynamic, interactive process between leaders and audiences in which credibility is constructed.     

支持理论下民事诉讼当事人法律意识的实证研究

传统研究重视“法的供给”视角,致力于创设“良法良制”。通过转向“对法的需求”视角,本研究基于支持理论和法律意识理论,访谈了142名四类常见民事诉讼案件的当事人。本研究发现,当事人对司法的信赖分为“特定支持”和“普遍支持”两个维度。负面的诉讼经历仅会降低当事人对主审法官(法院)的评价(特定支持),尚未削弱他们对法院系统及司法制度的评价(普遍支持)。此外,当事人可以被进一步分为“门外汉”和“入门者”。前者不信赖法院的根本原因在于其法律意识与司法制度间存在巨大的冲突和矛盾;“入门者”的意识则限定于法律体系内,只在意法官的审判质量。随着司法系统的日渐完善,“入门者”对司法的信赖有望逐步提升。但“门外汉”则需要通过“知情(法)受益”这一过程先转化为“入门者”。     

Theoretically,yes, but also empirically? How the corruption-turnout link is marginally explained by civic duty to vote

Corruption is generally associated with low electoral participation. A recurrent explanation of the negative correlation between corruption and electoral turnout involves the rational calculus of the costs and benefits of voting. More specifically, in a context of high corruption, citizens do not vote because they think that doing so will hardly affect policy decisions. A number of influential studies has argued that corruption affects citizens' electoral engagement in a different and more fundamental way as well: It erodes their sense of civic duty to vote in elections. Yet, a relation between corruption and civic duty and a mediation effect of the attitude remains empirically untested. This article examines empirically whether perceived corruption and sense of civic duty are correlated, as well as whether civic duty mediates the relation between perceived corruption and turnout. It does so with the pooled Making Electoral Democracy Work data, as these data contain measures on individuals’ sense of civic duty to vote in four election levels, namely, national, regional, European, and municipal elections, as well as on their perception of corruption in each of these government levels, and on their participation in these four election levels as well. I find a weak relation between perceived corruption and civic duty, and a low mediation effect of the attitude (compared with rational factors), irrespective of the election level.