The Mediated Amplification of a Crisis: Communicating the A/H1N1 Pandemic in Press Releases and Press Coverage in Europe

In the aftermath of the A/H1N1 pandemic, health authorities were criticized for failures in crisis communication efforts, and the media were accused of amplifying the pandemic. Considering these criticisms, A/H1N1 provides a suitable case for examining risk amplification processes that may occur in the transfer of information from press releases to print news media during a health crisis. We integrated the social amplification of risk framework with theories of news decisions (news values, framing) in an attempt to contribute to existing research both theoretically and empirically. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of press releases disseminated by health and governmental authorities, as well as the quality and tabloid press in 10 European countries between March 2009 and March 2011. Altogether 243 press releases, 1,243 quality press articles, and 834 tabloid press articles were coded. Consistent with research on news values and framing the results suggest that quality and tabloid papers alike amplified A/H1N1 risks by emphasizing conflict and damage, presenting information in a more dramatized way, and using risk‐amplifying frames to a greater extent and risk‐attenuating frames to a lesser extent than press releases. To some extent, the quality and tabloid press differed in how risk information was presented. While tabloid press articles seemed to follow the leading quality press with regards to content and framing of health crisis coverage, they exhibited a stronger emphasis on drama and emotion in the way they presented information.     

两岸航空区际法律适用制度比较论纲

航空直航是两岸经济文化交流的重要路径。两岸航空法律冲突的存在导致航空直航中当事人利益保护的不确定性。当事人在发生纠纷时无法确定准据法, 难以确定其权利义务分配的法律效力。两岸航空法律适用制度的冲突加剧了实体法冲突的消极影响。两岸航空直航运输合同法律适用制度、航空器权利法律适用制度、旅客权利能力与行为能力法律适用制度及侵权法律适用制度均存在一定程度的差异, 其准据法的连接点、法律选择方法与价值考量迥异。两岸航空私法冲突属于区际法律冲突, 与国际私法冲突存在一定差别。应当制定区际私法, 以解决两岸航空法律冲突问题。     

农业劳动者职业转型中工匠精神的法律塑造

随着城镇化的发展和乡村振兴战略的实施，农业劳动者必然面临职业转型，转型后的职业客观上对劳动者提出了较高的技能要求。农业劳动者职业转型中工匠精神的培育，是提升农业劳动者技能、推动供给侧结构性改革、促进农业强国和创新型国家建设的重要举措。工匠精神要求农业劳动者在转型过程中提高职业技能，忠于雇主，诚实、勤勉、创造性地劳动。未来劳动法立法应转变理念，从保护不同农业劳动者合法权利，强化雇员忠诚义务，健全职业能力开发制度，完善工时、工资、劳动合同激励制度等方面，为农业劳动者工匠精神培育提供全方位、多角度的保障和激励措施。     

论行政登记在司法审查中的两个误区——以房屋登记行政诉讼案为切入点

近年来,企图通过行政诉讼解决民事纠纷之实例频现于行政登记领域,尤以房屋登记行政诉讼案最为典型。然而,大量涌现的类似诉讼现象却难逃正当性拷问,在其背后潜藏着两个误区:撤销行政登记必然影响民事法律关系变动、行政诉讼撤销判决必然存在适用空间。两个误区的形成分别源自对行政登记功能定位的片面认识与对行政登记合法要件的抉择失当,因而有必要从功能定位的视角厘清许可式、确认式、公示式登记对民事法律关系变动的影响,也有必要探讨实然与应然、长远与当下所应采取的审查方式,进而确定该审查方式下行政登记在司法审查中所应确立的合法要件,以上举措是走出前述误区的关键。     

社会主义核心价值观视角下高校“精神扶贫”路径探析

通过论述社会主义核心价值观视角下高校“精神扶贫”的内涵，阐明了二者间的契合性及用社会主义核心价值观指导高校精神扶贫工作的必要性，探索了社会主义核心价值观对“精神扶贫”工作顶层设计的意义，并用社会主义核心价值观指引“文化扶贫”“心理调适”“技能培训”等路径，旨在进一步提升高校“精神扶贫”的实效性。     

Foundations and Their Institutional Context: Cross-Evaluating Evidence from Germany and the United States

According to the relevant literature, the relationship between government and the private foundation sector in Germany is marked by a paradigm of conflict very similar to the one that has often dominated the U.S. discussion of government/nonprofit relationships in the past. More specifically, scholars often hold that the development of foundations in Germany is largely hampered by an administrative and regulatory climate that weakens rather than strengthens the foundation community. Two main arguments are brought forth in this context: First, the expansion of the state bureaucracy into traditional activity fields of foundations crowds out the foundation sector; second, the structure of tax regulations is detrimental to a sound development of foundations. However, while these arguments figure prominently in the policy debate, they have neither empirically nor analytically been substantiated as of yet. Borrowing from organizational theory, this article critically evaluates the arguments in the light of available evidence in an effort to contribute to a better understanding of foundations in an international context.     

生态学马克思主义对生态价值观的重构

西方“深绿”思潮把人类中心主义价值观看作是当代生态危机的根源,强调只有破除人类中心主义价值观,确立以“自然价值论”和“自然权利论”为主要内容的生态中心主义价值观,才能解决生态危机。西方“浅绿”思潮在为人类中心主义价值观作辩护的同时,对近代强式人类中心主义价值观做了必要的修正,最终形成以“开明的人类中心主义”和“弱式人类中心主义”为主要内容的现代人类中心主义价值观。西方“红绿”思潮中的有机马克思主义则批判现代性价值体系本质上是一种漠视人类之外的存在物的价值和利益的人类中心主义,由此必然导致人类与自然关系的扭曲和生态危机,因此应当以承认自然存在物的内在价值为前提,展开共同体价值观培育的有机教育。“红绿”思潮中的生态学马克思主义则是在批判“深绿”和“浅绿”思潮所主张的生态价值观的基础上,重建了“人类中心主义价值观”和“生态中心主义价值观”,但他们与“深绿”、“浅绿”思潮的本质区别在于他们重建的两种价值观始终是与对资本主义制度和生产方式的批判联系在一起的。     

中国养老金监管原则的法理思考

在人口老龄化时代,养老金制度的健全和完善成为保障老年人权益的关键,对养老金的监管是防范养老金流失、保证养老金保值增值的重要手段。从法理学视角看,对养 老金的监管要坚持信息公开、法治化管理、专门机构监管和市场化监管原则,以确保养老金监管的有效性,实现养老金价值的增长,健全和完善养老金监管制度。     

论法律认同的基础、表现与识别

法律认同是指在一定的法律认知的基础上,一国法律制度体系基于利我动机而主动与关联主体进行互动交往的活动。法律认同的产生需要完善的法规、良好的司法制度、守法的国民意识以及稳定社会环境作为基础;又通过国民对法律的接受到遵守再到执行最后达到认同得以表现;在广泛认同中区分对国家、民族、文化、社会的认同,置身于特定的社会时期中识别法律认同。