Finite Alternating-Move Arbitration Schemes and the Equal Area Solution

We start by considering the Alternate Strike (AS) scheme, a real-life arbitration scheme where two parties select an arbitrator by alternately crossing off at each round one name from a given panel of arbitrators. We find out that the AS scheme is not invariant to “bad” alternatives. We then consider another alternating-move scheme, the Voting by Alternating Offers and Vetoes (VAOV) scheme, which is invariant to bad alternatives. We fully characterize the subgame perfect equilibrium outcome sets of these above two schemes in terms of the rankings of the parties over the alternatives only. We also identify some of the typical equilibria of these above two schemes. We then analyze two additional alternating-move schemes in which players’ current proposals have to either honor or enhance their previous proposals. We show that the first scheme’s equilibrium outcome set coincides with that of the AS scheme, and the equilibrium outcome set of the second scheme coincides with that of the VAOV scheme. Finally, it turns out that all schemes’ equilibrium outcome sets converge to the Equal Area solution’s outcome of cooperative bargaining problem, if the alternatives are distributed uniformly over the comprehensive utility possibility set and as the number of alternatives tends to infinity. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Number: C72.     

论西部大开发与民族预科教育的发展

西部大开发是世纪之交我国重大发展战略的合理转移 ,也是我国少数民族发展的内在要求。本文论述了我国民族预科教育发展状况 ,分析了西部大开发中我国民族预科教育面临的发展机遇 ,并提出了在西部大开发中发展民族预科教育的一些建议。     

社会工作：我国人民调解制度的有效选择

社会工作是适应西方工业化、城市化社会的发展而逐渐形成和发展起来的,是帮助解决社会问题的一项专业性、职业化的工作方法。它与我国具有民间性、自治性的人民调解制度在思想理念、目标价值、社会职能和方法技巧上具有契合性和趋同性。在《人民调解法》的具体实践中,充分运用社会工作的价值理念和专业技巧,有助于创新人民调解模式、增强人民调解功能、完善人民调解制度。     

资本的渗透——克里斯托弗·斯坦纳与《流通中的非洲艺术》

《流通中的非洲艺术》是美国艺术人类学家克里斯托弗·斯坦纳关于非洲艺术的杰作。它展现了流通中的非洲艺术中出现的种种社会现象,详细描述了资本通过艺术物品流通渗透的过程,并提出了原真性的问题。其隐形的文本中透出西方对于非洲的文化想象与殖民记忆,同时,亦体现了非洲本土人民在全球化时代身份认同的丢失。文章再现了在流通中的非洲艺术物品的＂脱境＂过程,从原住民的＂物＂而成为西方＂艺术＂的流通之旅,凸显了＂知识介质＂在流通之中的力量。     

论行政诉讼调解制度的构建--兼论行政诉讼调解制度的立法建议

虽然我国《行政诉讼法》规定行政诉讼不适用调解,但是司法实践中却普遍存在着大量以协调——撤诉为表现形式的异化或隐形的调解现象,导致立法与司法现实之间的掣肘和冲突。为了满足司法公正和积极行政、服务行政的需求,学界和实务界均在这次《行政诉讼法》修改中呼吁建立行政诉讼调解制度。笔者结合近年来从事行政诉讼实践,对行政诉讼调解制度建立正当性、可行性以及价值定位问题进行相应的分析,并提出相应的立法建议。     

当前农村人民调解方式的认同调查与思考——以山西省晋中市农村为例

农村人民调解制度是当前实现人民调解、行政调解、司法调解有机结合的"大调解格局"的重要组成部分。经过实地调研,实证分析得出农民群众更偏好采用民间调解机制来化解民事纠纷的结论,并从法社会学角度深入分析造成这一现象的成因。对当前农村人民调解制度实行现状进行了阐述,并对当前其组织机制、经费机制、人民调解委员会和指导机关的关系、人民调解协议的法律性质等方面进行了建设性的探讨。     

“经权”之道:地方联动主体治理群体性劳动争议的实践逻辑

中西方理性观对于处置群体性劳动争议的行为逻辑迥然不同。中国的集体劳动关系制度在西方学者看来很不完善,但不能否认近年来中国大多数的群体性劳动争议通过和平的方式得到了较为迅速的解决。中国地方政府和相关部门的具体处置手段体现了传统儒家的“经权”思想,即通过整体性、动态性、平等有限性、强目的性和法律工具性等权衡方法,力争在每次纠纷处置中达到“恰到好处”的结果,以实现中央对于地方构建“和谐劳动关系”的期望。这种处置理念符合中国人独特的理性观与是非标准,在实践中具有灵活、高效的优势,然而也存在可能被错用、滥用,以及过度依赖执行人等弊端。     

The Role of Culture as Driver of Quality Management and Performance: Infrastructure Versus Core Quality Practices*

Increasingly, scholars and practitioners recognize the importance of understanding organizational culture when implementing operations management practices. This study investigates the relationships among organizational culture, infrastructure and core quality management practices, and manufacturing performance using two alternative models. Understanding these relationships is important because culture can provide insight into the context dependence of quality management practices and shed light on the mixed results of past studies concerning the link between quality management and performance. Analysis of manufacturing plants from six countries indicates that organizational culture has a stronger influence on infrastructure quality management practices than on core quality management practices, regardless of whether the plants are located in Eastern or Western countries. In addition, infrastructure quality management practices have a significant effect on manufacturing performance. These results contribute to the quality management literature by emphasizing the importance of accounting for culture when making decisions to implement quality management practices to achieve a performance advantage. Finally, we also contribute to the literature on the culture–performance linkage by finding support for a direct link between culture and manufacturing performance.     

新疆少数民族预科学生感知学习风格调查与分析——以新疆师范大学为例

采用问卷调查的方法,结合第二语言习得的相关理论,对新疆师范大学少数民族预科学生感知学习风格进行随机抽样调查与分析,并在此基础上针对少数民族预科学生在课堂上的感知学习风格特点,提出教师采取的应对教学策略。调查结果表明：新疆少数民族预科学生主要的感知学习风格是体验型、听觉型和动手操作型,其次是视觉型,在性别变量上没有显著性差异。     

转型中的人民调解:三个悖论——兼评《人民调解法》

尽管已有种种努力,但人民调解并没有真正走出低谷。《人民调解法》正是在这种背景下,带着振兴的使命而不完全是经验和成果出台。人民调解现代转型的根本在于破解三大症结以实现其相互平衡:国家化与非国家化、制度化与非制度化、专业化与非专业化。《人民调解法》在这几个方面有得有失。