Disabled people,choices and collective organisation: examining the potential of cooperatives in future social support

Major shifts in funding, demography, personal expectations and the rise of a global disabled people’s movement require new and creative solutions to the choices and rights agenda into the twenty-first century. Direct payments and the individual employment of personal assistants is one clear and recognised path to independent living. However, there have been some reservations about the nature, process and impact of the broader personalisation agenda more generally within which direct payments and personal budgets are located. Some commentators point to the loss of the collective impulse in personalised approaches – ideas that were central to the development of the independent living movement and its founding principles. Some countries have seen the rise of collective responses to direct payment developments. This is explicable in terms of a suspicion of individualist underpinnings of personalisation coupled with a collective vision of social life. This article is based on an exploratory study of collective approaches in the field of direct payments where choice and social solidarity are being combined. Drawing on developments in Sweden, England and Wales, the article aims to inform possible future debates about direct payments and cooperative approaches and argues that greater user-control is not inimical to enhanced collective action.     

Factors Affecting Planned Unit Development Implementation

Planned unit developments (PUD) have been celebrated as one of the few means of escape from the stranglehold of Euclidean zoning but little is known empirically about their use and implementation. In this paper, I present quantitative data from Michigan exploring the factors affecting successful PUD implementation. Results indicate that citizen participation, emphasis of PUD regulations, PUD appeal and differences among key players during PUD review have significant impacts on successful PUD implementation. I also find that Michigan municipalities are more successful at achieving mixed-use, density, preservation, affordable housing, community facilities and design through PUDs than through other regulatory vehicles.     

“新型城镇化与城乡发展一体化”学术论坛综述

为深化新型城镇化理论问题研究,2014年9月,中央编译局、重庆工商大学等单位联合举办了“第五届比较研究工作坊：新型城镇化与城乡发展一体化”学术论坛,与会专家学者围绕新型城镇化发展战略、城乡关系与城乡一体化、农民工市民化、城市社会治理等内容展开了深入研讨。     

文权之争：前七子派与茶陵派关系原论

在研究茶陵和前七子派关系时,近人陈田提出了很有影响的“坛坫下移郎署”说。而之前的明清人则认为两派或是前后相承,或是前正后邪。追索康海父亲墓文写作这一标志性分裂事件,从写作权利“旧例”的被颠覆和前七子派记述者的预设叙事逻辑,可见其实质是争夺世俗文章的书写权利,并影响了中晚明的文学下移大势。然面对前七子的系列“进攻”,茶陵派则多是“虚应”和“暗战”。这与前七子出于茶陵派有关,更与流派论争并不一定流于现实斗争的表现特点有关。     

论表演者权——以著作权法第38条的修改为视角

表演是传播文学艺术作品或艺术表达的重要途径,表演者因表演行为而享有表演者权。但从我国著作权法第38条的规定来看,对表演者权的保护并不充分。为适应科学技术与社会生活的变化,须加强和完善对表演者权的法律保护。这不仅能调动表演者的创作积极性,还能促进文学艺术创作和娱乐产业的进一步繁荣。     

From Restored Past to Unsettled Present: New Challenges for Jewish Museums in East Central Europe

This article examines the institutional development of Jewish museums in Prague, Budapest, and Bratislava from 1989 to the present, with special reference to their role as agents of cultural memory. I consider how these museums contribute to the formation of Jewish identities in post-communist societies, which are themselves struggling to form collective identities. After analyzing the institutional structures and exhibition concepts of these museums in relation to shifts in the politics of representation, I propose a core area on which each museum could base its future development.     

建立社会主义公有产权制度,促进我国投资需求

传统国有产权制度造成投资的预期收益率低 ,投资风险过大且风险与收益的不对称 ,利润向投资的转化难 ,从而缺乏投资需求不断扩大的动力 ,个人主体难以成为真正的投资者等。这是导致我国投资需求不足的深层原因。我国要与WTO接轨 ,刺激中国的投资需求 ,最根本的措施是进行国有产权制度改革 ,建立社会主义公有产权制度。     

中国农村社会保障改革的路径依赖与制度创新

随着中国农村市场化、工业化和城市化的发展,农村社会保障制度创新已经成为农村改革的焦点。本文在梳理中国农村社会保障制度变迁过程的基础上,分析了中国农村社会保障制度创新路径依赖的历史和文化因素,及其对当前中国农村社会保障制度创新的影响,提出了当前中国农村社会保障制度创新的基本路径,即只有依靠农村土地制度和农村组织制度的创新,逐渐消解城乡二元社会结构,才能进一步推动中国农村社会保障制度创新。     

土地发展权、农地征用及征地补偿制度

土地发展权是指所有权人将自己拥有的土地变更现有用途而获利的权利。农地征用补偿除了支付农地所有者传统的土地所有权价格之外,还应该对土地发展权给予补偿。此外,由于当前我国农地对于农民还具有很强的社会保障和失业保险功能,这决定了我国农地征用补偿必须有更宽广的边界。