虚假民事诉讼的司法解析与规制——以2012年《民事诉讼法》修改施行为契机

虚假民事诉讼是法律制度正向建构、不断完善与虚假诉讼行为人反向利用、挑战秩序两者之间博弈与冲突的表现,虚假诉讼的诉权承载了行为人侵害他人权益和司法秩序的恶意,诉权的扭曲导向审判权和审判程序的功能异化。司法机关应及时通过构建虚假诉讼的释明承诺机制、发现识别机制、审查判断机制和制裁威慑机制防范和规制虚假民事诉讼。     

西部地区承接东部产业转移的动力主体与机制分析

西部地区的地方政府、企业和居民构成了西部地区承接东部产业转移的三大动力主体。西部地区完善的产业承接动力应该是"政府有意愿、企业有兴趣、居民有热情",三个力量形成合力,才能从整体上构成西部地区对于东部地区产业转移的承接动力。合力的形成则源自于激励、竞争和关联三种动力机制的相互影响和相互渗透。     

论家事纠纷诉讼与 非诉讼协同解决机制的构建

近年来我国家事纠纷数量逐年递增,传统的家事诉讼解决机制已经不能满足司法实践的需要,家事纠纷的非诉讼解决机制因其独特的功能作用,已成为学术界探讨的热点问题。考察世界上其他国家和地区的成熟经验可以发现,对家事诉讼特殊程序机制的构建和对非诉讼解决机制的培育利用是同步进行、协同发展的。结合我国国情,应当立足于家事纠纷的固有特质,一方面通过专门立法解决家事诉讼程序理念不适应实践发展的问题,另一方面要借鉴域外经验合理培育若干种家事非诉讼解决机制,并做好二者之间的有机协同。     

A Question of Ethics

This article identifies three consulting roles—helper, leader, and colleague; recommends that statistical consultants ask more questions about basic mechanisms; suggests that statistical consultants regard their primary responsibility as providing guidance about the scientific method itself; discusses the need for continuing education to help improve consulting skills; and describes Wisconsin's Master's degree examination, which was designed to help students become effective practicing statisticians.     

Economic burden of tuberculosis and its coping mechanism at the household level in Pakistan

Despite the availability of free medicines under the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy, the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) still involves high costs that push people into poverty. This study aims to assess the resulting economic burden of TB and examine the coping mechanisms practiced at the household level in Pakistan. A cross-sectional study was conducted at TB centers by interviewing 269 patients. Statistical tests and binary logistic regression were used to explore the relationship between catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and socio-economic factors. Results show that the incidence and intensity of CHE were higher for households in the lower income-quintile. Several coping strategies were practiced and varied among the different income-quintiles. The independent determinants of CHE were as follows: age >40 years, male-patient, location, earner-ratio, patient as the earner, caretaker visits, treatment delay, and co-morbidity. It is recommended that health policymakers develop post-MDGs TB-control strategies to ensure free TB-services with financial protection around the globe.     

Channeling advocacy? Assessing how funding source shapes the strategies of environmental organizations

ABSTRACT

All non–governmental organizations (NGOs) rely on funding to support their work. But how does the source of funding shape the types of advocacy groups engage in? Using novel panel data collected by the Environmental Funders Network, this research examines how funding from government, foundations, business, and members shape the advocacy work of environmental NGOs (ENGOs) in the UK. Past research suggests that elite funding sources channel groups into institutional advocacy, such as lobbying or litigation, and away from public advocacy, such as protesting. This paper confirms previous research while also showing that all types of funding channel group actions. Foundation and business funding is associated with more institutional advocacy, government funding is associated with non–political advocacy such as species conservation, and member funding is associated with public advocacy. By comparing across funding types, this study demonstrates the ways in which groups are both helped and hindered by funding from different sources.     

组织间信任:收益机制、情境限制及调节策略

在以往研究中，人们通常接受这样的假定：组织间信任必然会给组织与外部的交易带来正向收益。然而，组织间信任对交易收益也可能会产生组织不希望出现的负面影响。为此，我们重新审视了这一假说并发展了更为全面的理论框架来解释这一内部机制。首先，文章探讨组织间信任的内涵要素，进而分析组织间信任中计算性成分与非计算性成分的不同组合对交易收益的作用机制，从逻辑上推演出组织间信任与交易收益之间存在一种倒U型的关系；其次，提出两个重要的情境因素即信任的非对称性和环境的不确定性，讨论它们分别对上述倒U型关系的负向调节作用；再者，提出一组能够应对不同情境限制而同时仍然可增进或保持有益交易结果的调节策略；最后，讨论本研究的启示和未来研究可能的方向。     

居民养老保险:参保主体、筹资与待遇水平

本文从参保结构、筹资水平和待遇水平等3个方面对城乡居民养老保险制度进行了分析。研究发现,在参保结构方面,伴随着城镇化率的提高,居民养老保险参保人数的相对比例在下降;在筹资水平方面,个人缴费水平过低,其主要原因是财政补贴资金激励性不足,从而需要在进一步提高财政补贴的同时,优化补贴结构,提高对个人缴费的激励作用;在待遇方面,居民养老金总体水平较低、但增长幅度较大,与职工待遇相比,替代率的差距要远远小于绝对额的差距。     

通过科学立法促进民族交往交流交融的法理探讨

在中华民族“多元一体”背景下，加强各民族交往交流交融，是铸牢中华民族共同体意识的必然要求。而通过科学立法建立完备的法律规范体系，则是运用法治思维和法治方式，促进各民族交往交流交融的根本前提。当前我国的民族法律规范体系虽已基本建成，但仍存在一些法律原则的表达不够严谨、法律概念的界定不够准确、法律规则的内容不够明晰和完整、规范体系的结构不够完备和和谐等缺陷和不足，难以满足在政治、经济、文化、社会和生态建设中通过法治方式有效协调民族关系，促进各民族交往交流交融的需要。这就要求立法者应遵循《立法法》确定的科学立法的形式合理性和实质合理性的要求，妥善处理法律规范体系与现实需要的适应性和可执行性，由此才能为通过法治促进各民族交往交流交融奠定坚实的制度基础。从科学立法与依法立法、民主立法的关系来看，遵循依法立法，是保障法的形式合理性的前提；坚持民主立法，则是保障法的实质合理性的根基。为提升立法的科学品质，必须健全违宪审查机制、协商民主机制和立法理论形成机制，确保依法立法、民主立法原则的有效落实。     

Looking Inwards,Looking Outwards: Dismantling the “Berlin Wall” Between Health and Social Services?

This paper argues that at a time when policy guidance urged closer collaboration and joint working between health and social services, the long-established cultural and professional gaps were widening and deteriorating. Drawing on data from four research sites, the paper argues that the deterioration was rooted principally in practitioners' preoccupations with changes within their own organizations and daily work, resulting from a major period of change in both health and social services, which, ironically, was at the expense of the joint working which the "Caring for People" reforms required. As the policy environment changes again, under the Labour government, it is likely that health and social care practitioners will be working within further organizational turbulence and change. It will be crucial that those changes are managed in such a way that they avoid the very real danger of compounding the problems which our respondents identified.