Leaching the poison – The importance of process and partnership in working with Yolngu

The popular construction of rural places as ‘white’ spaces has significant repercussions for ethnic, Indigenous and ‘other’ groups who do not always fit within prescribed dominant processes. This paper provides new insights for rural scholarship through an engagement with Indigenous specific experiences of governance and decision making in rural and remote areas. Drawing on powerful Yolngu metaphors from northeast Arnhem Land, Australia, it makes Yolngu law and perspectives visible. Like the cycad nut that has poison within its flesh, so have government impositions on Indigenous people in remote areas. This paper is written to leach the poison out, to let it be cleansed.     

新多边主义视野下的全球治理

随着全球化进程的深化和各种全球性问题的蔓延,民族国家在全球治理中面临越来越多的新挑战,以国家为中心的多边主义治理也不断暴露出内在的局限性,非政府组织、全球公民社会等非国家行为体对全球问题的解决发挥着日益重要的作用,全球治理的紧迫现实呼吁新的多边主义。新多边主义是在多边主义基础上发展起来的,是全球公民社会进行国际合作的产物。虽然新多边主义治理替代多边主义治理并非易事,但是它对全球治理的重构正在缓慢和艰难地向前发展。     

政府购买服务与社区卫生服务机构的发展

在当代中国的城镇与乡村,社区卫生服务机构能否发展为民众的健康守门人,这是中国医疗服务体系改革与发展的重要议题之一。近年来,各级政府投入了大量公共资源,社区卫生服务机构的服务能力显著提升,但医师人均诊疗服务量基本上原地踏步,住院服务量却在萎缩。要达成"强基层"的目标,最为关键的是要"建机制",即建立一种政府购买服务的新机制,取代当前流行的行政化体制,以调动基层医疗机构的积极性。新机制的核心就是推进医保付费改革,以按人头付费为主导的新付费方式取代通行的按项目付费主导制。     

Just deliberation: Can communicative rationality support socially just environmental conservation in rural Africa?

This article evaluates the use of deliberative methods for filling the democratic deficit arising from the shift to management through partnerships in conservation in developing countries. We ask whether deliberative approaches are feasible in a rural African context and the extent to which they can form a basis for socially just environmental decision making. In answering these questions we focus on two main concerns: the possibility of achieving satisfactory representation and the possibility of constructing counter-factual spaces of deliberation in which identity-based bias is suspended in favour of reasoned argument. Our survey data suggests that participants are themselves satisfied that representation is fair, and that the consensus attained at the end of deliberative events is not the result of domination of more powerful interests. Nevertheless, our more qualitative observations of individuals involved in deliberative events provide stronger cause for caution. It is not possible to leave power and prejudice out of deliberative processes, though well managed spaces of deliberation can temporarily mitigate these and in doing so provide some empowerment to normally marginalised participants.     

The politics of marginality in Wallowa County,Oregon: Contesting the production of landscapes of consumption

The state of Oregon’s (USA) land use planning framework has long been characterized by tensions between state and local authority, between traditionally-defined “urban” and “rural” concerns, and between the competing interests of various landowners. An examination of Wallowa County, Oregon’s implementation of House Bill 3326, a 2001 law giving counties the power to define certain agricultural lands as “marginal,” and therefore exempt from restrictions on subdivision and development, illustrates the ways in which these tensions become magnified as rural communities attempt to govern private land use in the context of rural restructuring. Implementation of HB3326 highlighted the tensions between landowners interested in capitalizing on development opportunities afforded by HB3326, neighboring producers concerned about interference from future amenity migrants, and existing amenity migrants with interests in protecting their rural idyll. Contestations over nonfarm development took place in the context of a strong agricultural community identity, concerns about the effects of economic restructuring on producers, and local resistance to the rural gentrification process. The process of defining marginality came to encompass not only technical issues of land productivity, but also broader community contestations over the continuation of traditional land uses and the legitimacy of various actors to govern private land.     

Confronting the Informal in Good Governance: The Case of Decentralised Education‐System Reform in Guinea

For twenty years, technocratic planning and management approaches have dominated good‐governance reforms in developing countries. This is true even for newer ‘participatory’ and ‘citizen‐driven’ reforms that still struggle to engage with powerful informal forces affecting public service delivery. This article presents evidence from a case study of decentralised education‐system reform in Guinea, revealing a wide range of influential dynamics outside the technical realm. These corroborate the argument for ‘good‐fit’ alternatives to traditional governance approaches and concrete measures to better capture the constructive and disable the destructive effects of informality on development.     

“See You in Court”: How CEO narcissism increases firms' vulnerability to lawsuits

Although some researchers have suggested that narcissistic CEOs may have a positive influence on organizational performance (e.g., Maccoby, 2007; Patel & Cooper, 2014), a growing body of evidence suggests that organizations led by narcissistic CEOs experience considerable downsides, including evidence of increased risk taking, overpaying for acquisitions, manipulating accounting data, and even fraud. In the current study we show that narcissistic CEO's subject their organizations to undue legal risk because they are overconfident about their ability to win and less sensitive to the costs to their organizations of such litigation. Using a sample of 32 firms, we find that those led by narcissistic CEOs are more likely to be involved in litigation and that these lawsuits are more protracted. In two follow-up experimental studies, we examine the mechanism underlying the relationship between narcissism and lawsuits and find that narcissists are less sensitive to objective assessments of risk when making decisions about whether to settle a lawsuit and less willing to take advice from experts. We discuss the implications of our research for advancing theories of narcissism and CEO influence on organizational performance.     

乡村振兴视阈下的精细化治理研究——以西藏乡村网格化治理为例

当前,社会问题日益复杂,利益与价值取向不断多元化,党的十九大提出乡村振兴战略,对社会治理提出了更精细化的要求。西藏乡村社会精细化治理的网格化推进中,社会治理多元主体初步建成,取得了不少实效,但仍存在治理人员能力不足、联户机制不完善、信息技术程度低等亟待解决的问题。完善西藏乡村网格化治理,应充分发挥精细化治理机制的有益作用,坚持中国共产党的领导,进一步明确以人民为中心的矛盾治理精细化立场,通过网格化治理模式完善西藏乡村社会治理全覆盖、社会服务零距离、村民诉求全响应、法律保障全面化的多元共治治理格局,优化网格化治理的顶层设计,注重网格化管理人员及联户代表的多方培育,健全网格化治理体系中的激励、监督、评价机制。     

地区间主义与欧盟:全球行为体之锻造与实践新途径

欧盟是一个全球行为体,这是学界的一个基本共识.然而,并非所有的研究都强调欧盟作为一个新型的国际行为体所运用的新方式及其所产生的新影响.地区间主义肇始于欧共体早期的对外关系,发展于冷战后欧盟的外交政策.它是欧盟借以巩固并提升自身地区性,进而增强其行为体属性的重要方式,同时也是欧盟参与全球治理,谋划未来世界秩序的重要途径.     

理解金融自由化效应:增长与波动

增长与波动是金融自由化的核心效应,对它们的研究分别构成了金融自由化原理和实践理论.增长效应源于三个宏观渠道:储蓄动员、储蓄转化效率以及资本配置效率;在金融功能视角下,三者具有不同的微观基础.波动效应研究源于金融自由化实践反思,主要研究金融自由化的实施条件、速度和次序,以及金融自由化实践中的政府监管.从增长效应研究到波动效应研究意味着金融系统治理理念的转变.