Stop the Beat: Quiet Regulation and Cultural Conflict1

This article explores a recent conflict over the youth phenomenon known as “raving” in the City of Chicago. By interviewing participants involved in the conflict, I set out to understand the extent to which the crackdown on raves in Chicago was similar to earlier social reactions to jazz, comic books, rock and roll, and Dead Head culture, as well as to more recent conflicts over punk, rap music, and raves in other cities. While most previous research on cultural conflict has focused on moral crusades, campaigns, and panics, the Chicago conflict represents an example of “quiet regulation.” Opponents refrained from highly visible, morally charged attacks; instead, in the absence of media hype and visible public discourse, public officials justified the crackdown in highly bureaucratic terms—avoiding risk, collecting taxes, enforcing codes. Nonetheless, they also drew on cultural schemas that linked raves and raving with drugs, sex, and deviance. As a result, officials selected a course of regulation that criminalized DJs and discredited the artform. In the absence of a highly visible moral campaign, the rave participants were unable to mobilize and resist the regulation and defend their lifestyle. Sociologists must move beyond highly visible campaigns and crusades and pay greater attention to quiet regulation, both because such regulation is likely to increase in the future and because it has significant consequences for power, cultural expression, and identity.     

A Pilot Study of 2 Brief Forms of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Emotion Dysregulation in College Students

Abstract

Objective: To examine the feasibility and initial efficacy of 2 abbreviated dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills training groups: emotion regulation skills only and emotion regulation with mindfulness skills. Participants: Participants were 24 undergraduates (aged 18–29) with significant emotion dysregulation who participated between February and May of 2010, 2011, and 2012. Methods: Participants participated in 2-hour weekly group sessions for 8 weeks and completed outcome measures at baseline, midtreatment, posttreatment, and 4-week follow-up. Results: Participants in both conditions made significant gains, with large effect sizes, across measures of emotion regulation, affect, skills use, and functioning. There were no differences between the 2 groups, suggesting no additive benefit of mindfulness skills. Conclusions: This pilot study provides support for the acceptability and efficacy of abbreviated DBT skills training in colleges, given significant improvements, positive feedback, and low attrition. Impediments to feasibility included recruitment difficulties, particularly due to scheduling constraints.     

中华民族共同体意识培育要凸显社会主义属性

社会主义制度是中华民族共同体意识培育的政治基础和底气。从中华民族共同体意识形成与确立的内在逻辑和演进机制入手方能辨析其本质特征,中华民族整体意识最终确立于抗日战争时期,这一共识形成和确立的基础是广泛的爱国主义。因此,"中华民族"及其议题本身不具有制度规定性,具有价值中立性特征,与主流意识形态相契合方能形成巨大的现实力量。在近代中国对社会主义道路的选择、在建设与改革时期对社会主义制度的坚守持续滋养中华民族整体意识,社会主义制度使中华民族共同体意识获得内在的规定性。在中华民族共同体意识的培育中要凸显社会主义属性,切实把握方向和大局,以确保中华民族共同体意识正确的政治方向。     

Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model

We analyze a signaling game between the manager of a firm and an investor in the firm. The manager has private information about the firm's demand and cares about the short‐term stock price assigned by the investor. Previous research has shown that under continuous decision choices and the Intuitive Criterion refinement, the least‐cost separating equilibrium will result, in which a low‐quality firm chooses its optimal capacity and a high‐quality firm over‐invests in order to signal its quality to investors. We build on this research by showing the existence of pooling outcomes in which low‐quality firms over‐invest and high‐quality firms under‐invest so as to provide identical signals to investors. The pooling equilibrium is practically appealing because it yields a Pareto improvement compared to the least‐cost separating equilibrium. Distinguishing features of our analysis are that: (i) we allow the capacity decision to have either discrete or continuous support, and (ii) we allow beliefs to be refined based on either the Undefeated refinement or the Intuitive Criterion refinement. We find that the newsvendor model parameters impact the likelihood of a pooling outcome, and this impact changes in both sign and magnitude depending on which refinement is used.     

民事诉讼行政介入的程序规制研究

规制行政介入司法尤其是民事司法,除了深化司法体制改革的体制规制路径,将行政机关意见表达纳入民事诉讼程序是其另一程序规制路径.程序规制具有公正审判权请求权、论辩式民事诉讼对话逻辑、诉权制约行政权、民事审判实质公开的“武器支撑”.“法庭之友”制度对民事诉讼行政介入具有程序规制作用,中国行政机关可以“法庭之友”身份参与民事诉讼、进行意见表达.行政机关担当“法庭之友”不会损害独立审判,相反有利于司法公正公开.行政机关担当“法庭之友”以维护公共利益为限,是新型诉讼参与人,应明确其诉讼权利义务,构建行政机关作为“法庭之友”参诉的具体程序.     

“波特假说”的人力资本条件分析与检验

“波特假说”预言环境保护和经济发展可以实现双赢。研究认为,人力资本是实现环境友好型技术进步以及环境-经济综合绩效提升的支撑和匹配条件,亦即人力资本是“波特假说”成立的重要条件变量。实证结果显示:人力资本水平对环境-经济综合绩效存在直接的正向影响,且在东部和中部地区较为显著;全样本估计中环境规制对环境-经济综合绩效直接影响不显著,而人力资本可以改善环境规制的影响效应,间接作用于环境-经济综合绩效;进一步依据人力资本水平的分组检验,证实“波特假说”在人力资本水平较高地区的成立性,人力资本对环境-经济综合绩效的直接和间接影响均显著,验证了人力资本是“波特假说”成立条件这一分析结论。“新常态”下,应加强人力资本积累,健全人力资本流动机制,并依据地区人力资本条件科学实施环境规制,才能推动环境-经济综合绩效稳步提升。     

我国环境多元治理模式法律保障机制探究

未清晰地认识和定位政府、企业、社会公众三者的关系,未处理好三者的分工与衔接,是造成我国环境多元治理模式难以落实的关键问题。究其主要原因在于过分依赖传统政府管制模式的路径,以致政府在环境治理中起主导作用而轻视企业、社会公众作为治理主体的力量,导致其他治理主体参与环境治理法律机制的缺失。比较分析三者存在的障碍,提出落实环境多元治理模式法律保障的建议,从而构建起三者相互协作、共同治理环境的新局面。     

财政调控的价值定位、方式创新及法治化路径

近期财政部出台的法治财政建设实施方案将宏观调控的创新方式借用于财政领域,提出财政面向上的区间调控、定向调控、相机调控、精准调控和适时预调微调等,体现出财政的工具主义价值。从形式上来看,这与当下公共财政时代所要求的规范主义价值,存在着阶段性目标追求的二律背反,但基于财政有效治理的国家任务,两者又统一于良法善治的终极价值属性之中。对于仍深受财政工具主义思维禁锢的当下中国而言,更应提倡的是财政的规范主义价值,防止偏重调控结果有效而轻视调控过程正义,从遵循调控法定、尊重市场规则和坚持民生导向的路径出发,以期实现在调控权力控制下的国家全面可持续性发展。     

区块链与法律的互动:挑战、规制与融合

区块链技术的迅速崛起在刑法、合同法、数据保护法和公司法等多个法律领域对法律带来了挑战,对区块链技术进行适当的法律规制是必要且可行的,应当采取试验性监管、自我监管、共同监管、类型化监管等策略对区块链实施适度、科学的法律规制,实现技术创新和公共政策的双赢。与此同时,区块链技术也与法律发生着融合,其不仅可作为法律科技辅助法律的实施,还在一定程度上补充乃至替代传统法律。区块链与法律的深度融合使法律呈现代码化的趋势,将使传统法律发生颠覆性重构。     

中美铁路行业治理制度及其效率的比较分析

本文从铁路行业治理的视角,以铁路企业间的相互依赖性及其行业内协调制度为分析对象,分析中美铁路行业治理制度环境的相似性与差异性,探讨中美铁路行业内协调的制度安排的细节及其差异性,并运用比较制度分析的理论研究中美铁路行业内运营协调的信息体制及其效率差异,分析其清算制度的不同激励效果与适应性差异,阐述其对中国铁路重组的启示。