接点治理：论精准扶贫过程中的“村民评议”——对湘西B村的个案研究

作为深入乡土社会的“事件”,精准扶贫触发了国家政权和乡土社会之间的分歧。在数字化治理技术与乡土生活模糊性之间、国家正式权力与农村内生秩序之间、“区分逻辑”与乡土社会“平均主义”之间,两者存在明显差异。面对分歧,农村基层在精准扶贫过程中采取“村民评议”制度形成“接点治理”格局。研究发现,村民评议形成的接点治理主要包括以下治理机制：以熟人社会构成治理的信息机制,以多元主体参与构成治理的权威机制,以协商讨论构成治理的合法化机制。这一制度创造了新型制度场域和治理接点,有利于实现国家政权与乡土社会之间的融合。推进对湘西B村“村民评议”的个案分析,发掘其中的治理机制,完善其中存在的不足,实现从接点分离到接点融合,推进基层社会的有效治理。     

国外城市雨洪管理再认识及其启示

针对近年中国城市雨洪灾害频发、灾害危害严重,以及雨洪管理理念和方法仍在摸索阶段的现实,文章通过横向对比发达国家雨洪管理过程、阶段,探索总结了国外雨洪管理体系的阶段性与多元化、发展历程的过程性和演进性、治理模式的综合性、空间特征的地域趋同性特征,并系统剖析其形成的深层城市发展原因,结合中国的城市实际情况,提出了未来城市雨洪管理可发展方向的思考,认为未来在多尺度水文条件下的雨洪灾害形成内因探索、复杂环境下多要素集成分析、多过程连续的雨洪灾害发生动力机制等方面是研究发展方向之一.     

股票流动性与股价崩盘风险:公司治理和短期行为视角

流动性究竟能够稳定市场还是给市场带来危机？文章从股价崩盘风险的视角,探讨了股票流动性与股价崩盘风险的关系,研究发现:股票流动性促进了股价崩盘风险,因而并没有起到稳定市场的作用.随后,从“治理理论”和“短期行为理论”两个角度对影响机制进行探讨,研究发现:在二职合一、独立董事比例较低、短期机构投资者持股比例较高时,股票流动性对股价崩盘风险的正向影响更加显著.研究结论既丰富了股票流动性及股价崩盘风险的相关文献,也给管理层及上市公司从微观视角认识股价崩盘风险提供新思路及借鉴.     

全球价值链视角下中国钢铁产能过剩形成机制

国际分工背景下,提升产业价值链地位,破解低端锁定困境,既是化解过剩产能的出发点,也是落脚点。从国内制造业价值链、产业全球价值链及贸易结构等宏观层面,探究中国钢铁产业价值链低端锁定下的产能过剩形成机制,并聚焦于国际大型钢企,挖掘其微观原因。研究表明:钢铁产业处于中国制造业价值链近乎底部的位置,虽然增值能力总体有所增强,产业链条不断延伸,但与发达国家相比仍存在较大差距;在制造业价值链与钢铁产业全球价值链中存在的“微笑曲线”表明,中国钢铁产业的利润空间受到了国内外的双重挤压,产业升级压力巨大;国内议价、盈利能力普遍较差,下游业务联动不足及竞争优势缺乏是导致国内大型钢企的价值链低端锁定主要原因。目前而言,钢铁产业产能过剩与价值链低端锁定相互强化趋势明显。     

农民合作社的反脆弱性及其贫困治理能力

农民合作社作为农村发展的重要经济载体,其反脆弱性在农村贫困治理领域具有不可忽视的作用。 在联结农民个体、聚拢闲散资源方面,农民合作社是重要抓手:一方面,通过把单个的农民集合起来,增加农民群体共同抵御社会风险的能力,提高农民群体面对市场经济带来的不确定性和不稳定性的抗逆力;另一方面,农民合作社发挥实体平台作用,将农村较为优良的资源聚集起来,发挥资源整合效应,提高农村优质资源的利用率,提高农产品的市场竞争力,降低农产品的市场交易成本,提高农产品的市场占有率。 文章剖析农民合作社社员在组织能力、管理能力、自我发展能力等方面的反脆弱性,探讨农民合作社在整合经济、社会以及文化等资源方面的反脆弱性发展,进而论述在农村反贫困战略中,农民合作社的贫困治理能力。 农民合作社的反脆弱性,为其参与贫困治理提供了可能性,其反脆弱性发展为农村贫困治理增加了可及性,农民合作社的贫困治理能力日趋提高。     

Socio‐economic stratification of English in globalized landscapes: A market‐oriented perspective

Globalization has dramatically altered the urban societies of Amsterdam and Brussels over recent decades, with intensified socio‐economic inequality, unprecedented levels of multilingualism and the increasing importance of English. In this paper, I examine the use of English in the linguistic landscape of socio‐economically stratified commercial shopping streets in these two second‐tier global cities. I adopt a market‐oriented, contextualized approach to quantitative and qualitative variability in how English emerges in these particular commercial ‘linguistic markets’. McDonaldization in midscale shopping streets occurs alongside downscale and upscale uses of English which are more susceptible to local commercial dynamics, in particular in Brussels. As such, global English in these single city contexts emerges as a heterogeneous and scaled phenomenon shaped by specific local commercial and linguistic market conditions.     

IRENA as a glocal actor: pathways towards energy governmentality

For decades renewable energy has remained a “blind spot” within the sphere of international energy governance. The existing institutional network is highly fragmented, resulting in a myriad of international organizations, which all claim to deal with energy issues, yet do not focus on renewables on a global scale. Since 2009, IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, seeks to fill up this vacuum, thereby creating a new (and maybe more Southern-led) political arena for governing renewable energy issues. This article focuses on IRENA’s role as a changemaker in the sphere of global energy governance by investigating IRENA’s governance practices and contributions to knowledge production.     

Confession Governance and Verdicts in China’s Criminal Justice

The objective phenomenon of reliance on confessions is the source of many problems in the practice of criminal justice in China. Although successive amendments to the law have endeavored to improve the handling of confessions, they have been unable to resolve the dilemma of a rigid management mode, incompatible management strategies, and conflicting attitudes towards management. This paper has made a multi-dimensional reinterpretation of it from the judges’ perspective, including functional analysis, cultural interpretation and immediate considerations. It reveals that behind its functions of offering moral comfort or allowing evasion of responsibility, confession, as a medium of physical and intellectual management, has the more important function of supplementing and improving the legitimacy of criminal verdicts. The remolding of the legitimacy of criminal verdicts with the coordinated improvement of the management of confessions will change the mode of association between those who currently govern confession and those they govern and will clash with the current closed mode of criminal justice management, thereby promoting a transformation in the governance of criminal justice.     

Multilevel embeddedness: The case of the global fisheries governance complex

This paper explores how bilateral and multilateral clustering are embedded in a multilevel system of interdependent networks. We argue that in complex systems in which bilateral and multilateral relations are themselves interrelated, such as global fisheries governance, embeddedness cannot be reduced to unipartite or bipartite clustering but implicates multilevel closure. We elaborate expectations for ties’ multilevel embeddedness based on network theory and substantive considerations and explore them using a multilevel ERGM. We find states’ bilateral ties are embedded in their shared membership in multilateral fisheries agreements, which is itself clustered around foci represented by similar content and treaty secretariats.     

Children and global social policy: Exploring the impact of international governmental organisations

Axford N. Children and global social policy: exploring the impact of international governmental organisations International governmental organisations (IGOs) seek to influence child welfare policy and practice in individual sovereign states. But do they succeed and, if so, in what way? This article outlines the nature of selected IGOs' work, explores the nature of their impact and seeks to explain the pattern that emerges. It also notes areas for further research.