社会科学 · SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. By Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
Viking Adult 2011; 832 pages; ISBN: 0670022950; 9780670022953.

The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedFaced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species’s existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, pogroms, gruesome punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened?

This groundbreaking book continues Pinker’s exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives- the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away-and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind’s inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.

The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People’s Republic of China. 3rd Edition. Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar

The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People’s Republic of China. 3rd Edition. Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar. Cambridge University Press 2011. ISBN: 0521145317; 9780521145312; 0521196930; 9780521196932.

The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China. 3rd EditionThirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine and economic and political isolation. Today, China has the world’s second largest economy and is a major player in global diplomacy. This volume, written by some of the leading experts in the field, tracks China’s extraordinary transformation from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the death of Chairman Mao, to its dynamic rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century. The latest edition of the book includes a new introduction and a seventh chapter which focuses on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, the godfather of China’s transformation, under his successors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.

西格尔(等):《美国司法体系中的最高法院》

社会思想译丛 ★ 新书讯

美国司法体系中的最高法院

杰弗瑞·西格尔(Jeffrey A. Segal)、哈罗德·斯皮斯(Harold J. Spaeth)、莎拉·蓓娜莎(Sara C. Benesh):《美国司法体系中的最高法院》(The Supreme Court in the American Legal System),刘哲玮、杨微波译,北京大学出版社2011年。ISBN: 9787301163443. @豆瓣@小组

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内容简介

本书运用翔实可靠的数据和众所周知的案例,对美国联邦最高法院的运作过程和大法官们在司法决策过程中的考量因素展开了生动的分析,令人信服地论证了大法官的政治偏好决定着最高法院案件的筛选和判决的内容。同时,作者还用深入浅出的笔调,考察了美国刑事诉讼和民事诉讼程序、证据制度、州法院和联邦下级法院系统,从而帮助读者能够更加系统地了解联邦最高法院在美国司法体系中的皇冠位置,以及大法官在处理案件时与州法院和下级法院法官迥然不同的考察因素和思维方式。

目录

第一编 引论

第一章 司法制定政策
第二章 司法裁决的形成路径
第三章 美国司法历史中的最高法院

第二编 司法过程

第四章 民事诉讼程序
第五章 证据
第六章 刑事诉讼程序

第三编 美国司法体系中的下级法院

第七章 各州法院
第八章 联邦地区法院
第九章 联邦上诉法院

第四编 美国司法体系中的最高法院

第十章 最高法院的组成
第十一章 进入法院
第十二章 最高法院的裁决形成
第十三章 意见与分配

第五编 影响

第十四章 司法判决的影响

案例索引
索引
附录一 美国联邦最高法院历任大法官(1789—2010)
附录二 美国各州缩写

书评

《美国司法体系中的最高法院》是现有文献中一部具有独特贡献的书——与其他同类书不同,它有着自己的观点,并运用数据予以支撑。本书以不加掩饰的政治倾向,以及丰富的细节与事实,为课堂上的踊跃讨论提供了素材。对政治学系、法律系的学生,以及那些对法院制度的发展和历史感兴趣的人而言,这是一本非常重要的著作。——李·爱泼斯坦(Lee Epstein),华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校

《美国司法体系中的最高法院》对美国的法院以及司法程序提出了崭新的看法。西格尔、斯皮斯和蓓娜莎对司法程序课堂上所讨论到的一般话题,都有广泛涉及,且这种涉及是以一种独特的、有魅力的方法呈现出来。作者知识的深度与广度,以及他们敏锐的才智,在本书里得到了很好的体现,并有助于知识性的、真正愉悦的阅读的实现。本书如此独特(并且如此吸引人)的原因在于作者的这种关注:不仅告诉读者他们对法律和法院知道什么,而且告诉读者他们是怎样知道的。同时,作者还(不同寻常地)为我们带来了关于司法程序不同方面的社会科学研究。这本书无疑会成为一项典范。——温迪·马蒂内克(Wendy L.Martinek),纽约州立宾汉姆顿大学

从支配民事诉讼和刑事诉讼的规则,到最高法院判决的影响,西格尔、斯皮斯和蓓娜莎透彻地阐释了美国的司法体系。作者非常专业地将经验数据、历史分析,以及法律知识结合起来,给我们提供了一个广泛的视角,来观察法院如何运行,以及司法以哪些方式影响着公共政策。结果是,一本非常有益、水平很高的著作呈现在我们面前。——托马斯·沃克尔(Thomas Walker),埃默里大学

天则经济研究所《国有企业的性质、表现与改革》第三次修订版

2011年7月12日

摘要

2001 年至2009 年国有及国有控股工业企业累计获得利润总额为58462 亿元,2009 年的账面利润总额比2001 年增长了3.89 倍;累计获得净利润为40517 亿元,2009 年的账面净利润比2001 年增长了4.37 倍。

2010 年,中央企业共实现利润13415 亿元,占国有企业利润总额的67.5%。2009 年,在央企实现的利润中,中国石油、中国移动、中国电信、中国联通和中国石化等10 家企业占到70%以上;其中,中石油和中移动分别实现1285.6 亿元和1484.7 亿元,仅这两家企业就超过了全部央企利润的三分之一。可见,国有企业的利润主要是由垄断企业实现的。

2001 年至2009 年,国有及国有控股工业企业平均的净资产收益率为8.16%,非国有工业企业平均的净资产收益率为12.9%。2009 年,非国有工业企业净资产收益率为15.59%,国有企业净资产收益率为8.18%。因此,国有及国有控股企业的名义绩效也不够高。

即使如此,国有企业表现出来的绩效并非其真实绩效,是国有企业在享受着种种政策优惠,和民营企业在不平等的经营环境下所体现出的绩效。这种不平等主要体现在政府财政补贴、融资成本和土地及资源租金等方面。

按工业用地价格3%的比例计算工业土地租金,2001~2009 年国有及国有控股工业企业共应缴纳地租25787 亿元,占国有及国有控股企业名义净利润总额的63.6%。如果再考虑商业服务用地,仅2008 年一年,国有企业就应交纳12065 亿元地租。

国有及国有控股工业企业平均实际利息率为1.6%,其它企业加权平均的实际利率(视为市场利率)则约为4.68%。若按照市场利率水平重新计算国有企业应支付利息,2001 到2009年利息支付差额共计约27539 亿元,占国有及国有控股工业企业名义净利润总额的68%。

石油的资源税平均仅为每吨26 元,加上按销售收入的1%计征的资源补偿费。我国对石油征收的资源租金不足价格的2%;远低于我国向合资企业征收的12.5%的比例。即使加征了特别收益金,也不能完全实现资源所有者的权益。2001 年至2009 年,国有及国有控股工业企业少交纳的石油资源租金约为2437 亿元。加上天然气和煤炭等自然资源,国有及国有控股工业企业在2001 年至2009 年间共少交纳资源租金约4977 亿元。

从1994 年至2006 年,国家财政用于国企亏损的补贴达到了3653 亿元。据不完全统计,2007 年至2009 年,国有及国有控股工业企业获得财政补贴约为1943 亿元。

从账面财务数据中还原企业的真实成本,并对政府补贴予以扣除,从而测算国有企业的真实绩效。据测算,2001 年至2009 年,国有及国有控股工业企业平均真实净资产收益率则为-1.47%。

2008 年,国有企业人员的人均工资比其他单位高17.1%,比社会平均水平高13.7%;人均劳动者报酬分别比私营企业高62%,比非国有企业高35%。2009 年只有小幅回落。行业间存在巨大差异。2008 年,垄断行业职工人均年收入达12.85 万元,约为当年全国在岗职工年平均工资18364 元的7 倍。在收入最高的5 个工业行业中国有企业的比重最高,在收入最低的5 个工业行业中国有企业比重最小。

按照现行的公积金制度规定,职工和单位公积金缴存比例均不得低于职工上一年度月平均工资的5%,原则上不高于12%。不少垄断行业的国企和事业机关将这一比例提升到20%。网通运营公司全额计提41.42 亿元,一次性现金住房补贴。国有企业利用国家无偿划拨的用地进行单位集资建房。企业购买市场上的商品房,以较低的价格出售给本企业员工。

2007~2009 年,992 家国企所得税的平均税负为10%,民企的平均税负达到24%。

自1994 年至2007 年,国有企业没有上交一分钱利润。2009 年,国有企业利润上缴比例仅约6%,其余利润都在企业内部分配。2010 年,该比例降至2.2%。而央企上缴的红利目前主要在央企体系内部转移,尚没有体现出惠及民众的意义。

我国存在结构性的国进民退现象。从资金的角度来看,电力蒸汽热水生产供应业的国有比重从2005 年的85.8%上升到2008 年的88.2%。从工业总产值的角度来看,电力蒸汽热水生产供应业的国有比重从2005 年的89.3%上升到2008 年的91.7%。石油和天然气开采业的国有比重从2005 年的90.5%上升到2006 年的98.9%。

用市场力量的指标对各个行业的垄断程度进行了定量分析表明,在有色金属冶炼及压延加工业,烟草制品业,石油加工、炼焦及核燃料加工业和电气机械与器材制造等行业中,2007年的垄断程度比2002 年有显著增加。这些行业与国有企业比重增大的行业有很大重合。

通过对国家部委官员的履历统计发现,在19 个部委的183 名副部级以上官员当中,具有国有企业工作经历的就有56 人,比重达到30.6%。通过对123 家中央企业的高管履历统计发现,在有信息披露的47 家企业当中,一共有115 名高管具有政府工作背景,平均每家企业达到2.45 人。因而,存在国企管理层与官员之间的身份互换。

企业高管通过进入政府获取政策与资源;政府官员进入企业兑现在位时的经济收益。

行政部门拥有制订法律的实施条例、指导意见和部门规定等权利,即实际上存在“行政立法”;企业管理层无需游说立法机关,只需游说行政部门即可,即存在“院内活动”。

国有企业应当存在较为明确的边界,其适合于市场机制不能得到充分发挥的公共品和准公共品的提供。尤其当政府成为唯一买家或者生产过程需要严格控制的产品,应当由国有企业提供,其他产品则由民营经济提供。国有企业存在的条件,是在提供公共物品时,融资阶段和生产阶段不可分离。

国有企业是不同于一般政府和一般企业的公共机构。国有企业不应以营利为目标,应以实现社会公益为目标。

我国已有的国有企业改革的实质是国有资产的资本化,即通过对国有资产的经营而获取利润。因此,当国有资产不断显现资本的属性,政府也就逐渐成为人格化或机构化的资本。

国有资产资本化,尤其在我国经济转型的初期,不仅具有逻辑的必然性,而且具有推动市场化的积极意义。然而,随着我国市场经济的建立,以国有资产资本化为特征的国有企业改革,其历史使命将告终结。

国有企业的近期改革方案,应当围绕打破国有企业的行政垄断,取消国有企业无偿或低价占有和耗费国有资源的特权,规范国有企业的行为等重要方面而设计。其意义在于,促进不同经济主体充分、公平地展开经济竞争,从而更好地实现我国的社会正义,提高经济效率。

国有企业的终极改革目标有两个:其一,将国有企业转变为非营利性公法企业;其二,建立国有资产的宪政治理架构。

为实现国有企业的终极改革目标,国企必须从营利性领域(而不单是从竞争性领域)中逐步退出。

Abstract

The state-owned and state-holding industrial enterprises made a total profit of 5846.2 billion yuan from 2001 to 2009, with the total book profit of 2009 increased by 3.89 times over that of 2001. The total net profit amounted to 4051.7 billion yuan, with the total book net profit of 2009 increased by 4.37 times over that of 2001.

The total profit of central enterprises reached 1341.5 billion yuan in 2010, accounting for 67.5% of the total profit of state-owned enterprises. The profits of ten enterprises occupied 70% of all net profits made by central enterprises in 2009, namely, China National Petroleum Corporation, China Mobile Limited, China Telecommunications Corporation, China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd., China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation. Hereinto, China National Petroleum Corporation and China Mobile Limited made a profit of 128.56 billion yuan and 148.47 billion yuan respectively, the total of which exceeds one third of the total profit made by central enterprises. It can be seen that profits of central enterprises were mainly realized by monopoly enterprises.

From 2001 to 2009, the average return on equity of state-owned and state-holding industrial enterprises was 8.16%, while that of industrial enterprises above designated size was 12.9%. 2009,that of the former is 8.18%, while that of the latter is 15.59%. Therefore, the nominal performance of state-owned and state-holding enterprises was not high enough.

Even the performance of state-owned enterprises is not their real performance, but one after enjoying various preferential policies and under such a management environment which is unfair to non-stated-owned enterprises. The unfairness is mainly embodied in fiscal subsidy by the government, financing cost, and land and resource rent, and so on.

If we compute the industrial land rent at 3% of the price of the industrial land, state-owned and state-holding industrial enterprises should pay a total rent of 3931.2 billion yuan from 2001 to 2009, accounting for 67.2% of the total nominal profits made by state-owned and state-holding enterprises. Only in 2008, the state-owned enterprises should pay 1210.4 billion yuan rent for the land if we add the land for commercial and service use into the whole amount.

The real interest rate for state-owned and state-holding enterprises is 1.6%, while that market interest rate is 4.68%. If we recount the interests which should paid by state-owned and state-holding industrial enterprises with the market interest rate, the total interest difference will be 2296.7 billion yuan from 2001 to 2008, accounting for 47% of the total nominal profits made by state-owned and state-holding enterprises.

The resource tax of oil is average only 26 yuan per ton. The resource compensation fee is merely 1% of sales revenue. Therefore, the real royalty of oil in China is less than 2% of its price, far below the ratio of 12.5% which is imposed on the capital venture in China. Even collection proportion for special oil gain levy below 40 dollars is too low to fully realize interests of resource owners. From 2001 to 2009, the state-owned and state-holding industrial enterprises lack to pay 243.7 billion yuan of the oil royalty. Together with those of coal and natural gas, the state-owned and state-holding industrial enterprises lack to pay 497.7 billion yuan of royalty of resources..

From 1994 to 2006, the state fiscal subsidy for the losses of state-owned enterprises accumulated to 365.3 billion yuan. According to incomplete data, from 2007 to 2009, the state-owned and state-holding industrial enterprises received fiscal subsidy is about 194.3 billion yuan.

The real performance of state-owned enterprises can be estimated through deducting those costs without paid but should be paid and governmental subsidies, together achieving about 7491.4 billion yuans, from nominal profit of the state-owned enterprises. According to our estimation, the average real return on equity of state-owned and state-holding enterprises from 2001 to 2009 is -6.29%.

In 2008, the average staff wage of state-owned enterprises was 17. % higher than that of other organizations, their average labor income is 63% higher than that of private enterprises and 36% higher than that of non-state-owned enterprises. There is a big difference between the industries. 2008, the average income per year of employees in monopolistic industries reached 128.5 thousand yuan, which is about 7 times as that of the employees in the whole country. The ratio of the state-owned enterprises in 5 industries with highest income is highest, while that in 5 industries with lowest income is lowest.

According to regulations of existing housing provident fund system, the housing provident fund deposit ratio paid and deposited by staff themselves as well as that paid and deposited by units should be no less than 5% of the staff’s average monthly salary of the previous year, and no more than 12% in principle. A large number of state-owned enterprises and institutions of monopoly industries, however, raise this ratio to 20%. China Netcom Operations Limited once accrued 4.142 billion yuan at total amount as lump-sum cash housing allowance. State-owned enterprises also conduct residential building construction with raised funds on gratis land from free allocation by the state. In addition, some enterprises purchase commercial residential buildings and sell them to their own staff and workers at low price.

From 2007 to 2009, the average tax burden of 992 state-owned enterprises was 10%, while that of private enterprises was as high as 24%.

State-owned enterprises did not turn over any profits from 1994 to 2007. In 2009, only 6% of state-owned enterprises’ profits were turned over, and the rest was all distributed within enterprises. In 2010, it decreases to 2.2%. Moreover, dividend turnover by central enterprises mainly transfers within the central enterprise system. Their significance in benefiting the common people has not been embodied yet.

Structural “Guo Jin Min Tui” phenomenon currently exists in our country. In terms of capital, the proportion of state-owned enterprises in electric power, steam, and hot water production and supply industries rose from 85.8% in 2005 to 88.2% in 2008. In terms of gross industrial output value, the proportion of state-owned enterprises in electric power, steam, and hot water production and supply industries increased from 90.5% in 2005 to 98.9% in 2008.

The quantitive analysis with the term, market power, on the monopolistic levels of industries shows that colored metal smelting and pressing industry, tobacco industry, oil processing industry, coking industry, nuclear fuel industry, and electric machinery industry, and so on, the monopolistic level in 2007 is higher than that in 2002. These industries are overlapped very much with those with higher ratio of the state-owned enterprises.

A resume survey of officials of ministries and commissions under the State Council shows that among 183 officials above vice ministerial level of 19 ministries and commissions, 56 people have working experiences in state-owned enterprises, the proportion for which is as high as 30.6%. In addition, a resume survey of senior executives of 123 central enterprises shows that 115 senior administrators of 47 enterprises with information disclosure have government working background, that is, each enterprise has an average of 2.45 people with such background. Therefore, identity exchange exists between management staff of state-owned enterprises and government officials.

Enterprise senior executives enter the government for policies and resources, while governmental officials enter enterprises to materialize their economic profits earned while in the position.

Administrative departments have rights to formulate regulations on the implementation of laws, instruction opinions, and departmental regulations, i.e. In other words, administrative legislation exists. Enterprise management needs to lobby the administrative departments instead of the legislature. In other words, there are “lobbying within the house.”

State-owned enterprises should have a rather clear boundary that they are suitable for production of public goods and quasi public goods in which market mechanism could not be brought into full play. Products which are purchased solely by governments or which should be stringently controlled during production progress should be supplied by state-owned enterprises, while other products should be supplied by private economy. The condition for existence of state-owned enterprises is when they supply public goods and the financing stage and can not be separated from the production stage.

The state-owned enterprise is a public organization different from ordinary governments or enterprises, whose aim is to realize public good of society rather than to make profits.

The nature of China’s current state-owned enterprise reform is capitalization of state-owned assets, that is, making profits through management of state-owned assets. Therefore, the government gradually turns into personalized or institutionalized capital when state-owned assets constantly show the attributes of capital.

As the main content of China’s market-oriented reform, the reform orientation choice of state-owned assets capitalization had both logical inevitability and historical progressiveness especially at the primary stage of China’s economic transition. However, with the establishment of market economy in our country, the historical mission of state-owned enterprise reform characterized by state-owned assets capitalization is about to come to an end.

We should design the short-term reform plan for state-owned enterprises based on two major objectives, namely, breaking the administrative monopoly by state-owned enterprises, and regulating state-owned enterprises’ behaviors. The significance lies in that this will promote different economic main bodies to carry out adequate and fair economic competition, thus better realizing social justice and improving economic efficiency.

State-owned enterprise reform has two ultimate goals. The first goal is to change state-owned enterprises into non-profit public law enterprises, and the second one is to build up the constitutional governance framework for state-owned assets.

To realize the ultimate goal of reform, state-owned enterprises have to gradually retreat from the profit-making fields (rather than merely the competitive fields).


目录

前言

第一章 国有企业改革的理论与过程

一、 国有企业以“放权让利”为主要特征的改革
二、 国有企业以“两权分离”为主要特征的改革
三、 国有企业以“建立现代企业制度”为主要特征的改革
四、 国有企业改革过程中的政策推动
五、 总结

第二章 国有资产及企业的分类

一、 按资产性质划分
二、 按归口管理划分

第三章 国有企业的当下表现(一):效率

一、关于国有企业效率研究的综述
二、本报告对效率的基本研究取向
三、国有及国有控股工业企业的名义绩效
四、还原:应付未付成本与补贴
五、关于“企业办社会”和“退休职工负担”的讨论
六、国有及国有控股工业企业的真实绩效
七、小结

第四章 国有企业的当下表现(二):分配

一、从国民收入角度分析补贴与应交未交成本对分配的影响
二、国有企业员工的货币收入及非货币收入
三、国有企业高层管理者的收入与其它类型企业的比较
四、国有企业的税负与其它类型企业的比较
五、国有企业的利润上交和分红情况
六、小结

第五章 国进民退及对市场竞争的影响

——对中国当下“国进”本质的分析及案例研究
一、 近年来国有企业“进”“退”的特征
二、 “国进”的典型案例
三、 对“国进”现象的分析

第六章 国有企业对宏观经济的影响

一、 国有资本整合与经济脆性
二、 国有企业当下表现对房地产市场的影响
三、 国有企业当下表现对金融市场的影响:以证券市场为例
四、 国有企业行为对大宗商品的影响
五、 总结

第七章 对国有企业当下表现的政治经济学分析

一、 国有企业当下问题的历史起点
二、 九十年代初国有企业的制度状态
三、 国有企业扭曲制度环境下的管理层利益集团
四、 国有企业管理者与官员的身份互换
五、 国有企业管理层的“院内活动”
六、 我国的政府部门的宪政缺陷:“部门立法”

第八章 国有企业的性质:经济学视角

一、 企业的性质
二、 国家的性质
三、 国有企业的性质
四、 国有企业的边界
五、 国有企业与政府之间的宪政关系

第九章 国有企业的性质:法学视角

一、 国企作为特殊的公共机构
二、 国企作为特殊公共机构的规范意义
三、 重申国企公共性质对于中国国企改革的战略意义
四、 余论

第十章 重新界定下的国有企业的深化改革

一、 对国有企业改革的反思与评论
二、 国有企业的近期改革方案
三、 国有企业的终极改革目标

参考文献

附录

分报告之一:对国有企业使命的评论
分报告之二:国资委的职权与角色冲突
分报告之三:我国工业与商业用地的地租缺失
分报告之四:国有企业相关政策的演变

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苏力:中国司法中的政党

“党政军民学,东西南北中,党是领导一切的”——毛泽东[1]

一、问题的界定和意义

《耶鲁法学杂志》2005年春季号刊登了纽约大学法学院教授弗兰克·阿帕汉(Frank Upham)的一个长达44页的书评,[2]评论我的《送法下乡》。[3]在认真理解并给与了高度评价的同时,阿帕汉教授对他认为的书中存在的问题提出了批评。批评主要有两点,一是“不加批评地接受了单线进化版的现代化理论”;[4]但“最大的问题”则是在书中“看不见政治和政治权力”,[5]仔细读来其实是批评我没有展示并辨析中国共产党对法院工作的干预和影响,法院在涉及党的或有党的背景的机构、人员的案件中具体行动,以及基层法院在社会冲突中的一般角色等等。

奥斯汀·萨拉特编:《布莱克维尔法律与社会指南》

社会思想译丛 ★ 新书讯

布莱克维尔法律与社会指南

奥斯汀·萨拉特(Austin Sarat)编:《布莱克维尔法律与社会指南》(The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society),高鸿钧等译,北京大学出版社2010年。ISBN: 9787301162323. @豆瓣@小组

阅读本书目录 [PDF]。

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内容简介

这部指南包含一篇导论和六编正文,收入论文33篇,是研究法律与社会研究领域的权威著作。各章重在考察特定领域的历程,描述其现状,分析其得失,指出其挑战,展示其未来走向。作者来自世界各地,代表了广泛的社会情境,体现了多元的文化视域。这些文章横跨法理学、法律社会学、法律人类学、比较法学以及许多部门法学,涉及立法、执法、司法以及法律意识,涵括民主、人权、法治、程序正义、法律文化等传统问题,触及批判种族理论、女权主义法学、后殖民法律以及法律全球化等前沿领域。由此,本书展示了丰富智识和多重洞见。

本书作者运用了不同的研究方法和阐释进路,不仅有实证主义和新制度主义,而且有解释学进路和文化研究视角;不仅有理性选择方法和政策分析模式,而且有批判研究范式和后现代叙事风格。本书论证严谨,意蕴丰厚,行文有趣,观点新颖。

书评

本书以百科全书的规模,填补了多年来我们深以为憾的许多空白,现了本领域丰富多彩的成果,为法律与社会研究树立了良好典范,由此必定成为一部经典。——凯蒂·卡拉维塔, 加州大学

奥斯汀·萨拉特和许多作者了撰成一部富有价值的权威论著。本书展示了法律与社会研究的学术精华,反思了法律与社会的关系,是本领域初学者和资深学者的必读著作。——罗伯特·丁沃尔,诺丁汉大学

在当代西方,法律与社会研究取得了丰硕的成果。这种研究涉及哪些人物,具有哪些文献,关注哪些问题,采用哪些方法,取得哪些进展,面临哪些挑战……凡此种种,读者翻开本书,便会解开谜题。本书对于我们拓展法律社会学的视野,探索中国的法律与社会关系,具有重要的启示。——高鸿钧, 清华大学

苏力主编:《法律和社会科学》第七卷

《法律和社会科学》第七卷
法律和社会科学》[Law and Social Sciences] 第七卷,苏力主编,刘思达执行主编,法律出版社 2010年。

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主题讨论:法律实证研究方法在中国

中国法律经济学的实证研究:路径与挑战 / 陈若英
中国法律社会学的历史与反思 /刘思达
中国行政法经验研究:回顾与展望 /汪庆华
乡村法制研究的现状与前瞻 /陈柏峰
“地方性知识”在法学语境中的使用 /李 耕

论文

实效主义法学纲要 / 柯华庆
中国治理刑讯逼供六十年的经验 /何永军
预防刑事冤案中的制度失灵 / 雷振斌
法律实践中俗民的“冤屈感”:一个解释框架 /邢朝国
北庄矿难:社区突发事件中的“理”与“情” / 袁长庚
农地流转纠纷中的政治与法律:鄂中个案研究 / 陆 剑
中国土地产权制度:基于宪法第10条的分析 / 程雪阳

批评

法院执行研究为什么难

跨越个案 / 苏力
评《法院执行为什么难》 /刘忠
执行既难,研究不易 / 戴昕
计量方法与因果关系 / 张巍

沈明:搜索引擎引发的版权危机

原载《法律和社会科学第六卷苏力主编,法律出版社 2010年。

一、问题及其意义
二、搜索引擎的法律属性与“安全港”立法
三、“安全港”法律在应用于搜索引擎时所存在的问题
四、中国的“安全港”立法及其与美国立法的比较
五、文字与图片搜索的版权问题
六、音乐文件搜索的版权问题
七、影视文件搜索的版权问题
八、搜索引擎网页快照的版权问题
九、结语

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The Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman

The Decline and Fall of the American RepublicThe Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman. Harvard University Press 2010. ISBN-10: 0674057031; ISBN-13: 9780674057036.

Review

In The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, Bruce Ackerman, one of our nation’s most thoughtful and most influential constitutional theorists, sounds the alarm about the dangers posed by our ever-expanding executive authority. Those who care about the future of our nation should pay careful heed to Ackerman’s warning, as well as to his prescriptions for avoiding a constitutional disaster.
–Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago Law School, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism

Alarmist or alarming, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, is a serious attention-getter. Bruce Ackerman has adroitly woven recent changes in our institutional arrangements into a provocative argument that the expanding powers of the 21st century presidency have put our constitutional order at risk.
–Joyce Appleby, UCLA, author of The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

At once audacious and plain spoken, Ackerman offers a fierce critique of democracy’s most dangerous adversary: the abuse of democratic power by democratically elected chief executives.
–Benjamin R. Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World and Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

Product Description

Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of deeper pathologies. ­Ackerman points to a series of developments that have previously been treated independently of one another—from the rise of presidential primaries, to the role of pollsters and media gurus, to the centralization of power in White House czars, to the politicization of the military, to the manipulation of constitutional doctrine to justify presidential power-grabs. He shows how these different transformations can interact to generate profound constitutional crises in the twenty-first century—and then proposes a series of reforms that will minimize, if not eliminate, the risks going forward.

The book aims to begin a new constitutional debate. Americans should not suppose that Barack Obama’s centrism and constitutionalism will typify the presidencies of the twenty-first century. We should seize the present opportunity to confront deeper institutional pathologies before it is too late.

About the Author

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University.

Law’s Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics, by Gordon Silverstein

Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills PoliticsLaw’s Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics, by Gordon Silverstein. Cambridge University Press 2009. ISBN-10: 0521721083; ISBN-13: 9780521721080.

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Winner of the C. Herman Pritchett Prize for the best book published in the field of law and courts in 2009 from the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

Frontmatter [PDF]; Excerpt [PDF]

Review

Law’s Allure is a masterful treatment of the causes and consequences of the juridification of American politics. Beautifully written and displaying Silverstein’s encyclopedic knowledge of American constitutional law and practice, the book helps us understand how the courts can both enable and disable our politics under different circumstances. Silverstein integrates both abstract principle and bare-knuckle politics into the account, resulting in a volume that is at the same time profound and accessible. A major contribution that will enlighten both scholars and the informed public.”
— Tom Ginsburg, The University of Chicago Law School

“Professor Silverstein provides an original and compelling analysis of the complex relationships between law and politics. His insights that juridification in the United States is on the rise, that juridification is more than government by judiciary, and that escaping from politics has numerous hidden costs are interesting, important and likely to provoke a good deal of conversation both within and without political science.”
— Mark Graber, University of Maryland

“Gordon Silverstein has given us a superb analysis of juridification, the messy interaction of supposedly objective legal rules with partisan interests that often produce public policy. Through both general reasoning and close studies of specific cases, he demonstrates how these forces noisily, and sometimes angrily, engage to create not a seamless web but a jig-saw puzzle whose jagged pieces never fit neatly together. Neither students of public law nor public policy can afford to miss this splendid book.”
— Walter F. Murphy, Princeton University

Law’s Allure is a breathtakingly good book. Tracing through a substantial number of important case studies ranging from abortion and school desegregation through campaign finance and environmental litigation to the tobacco cases and more, Gordon Silverstein gives us a new paradigm for thinking about the role of courts in American politics, one that is more complete, convincing, and persuasive than we have ever had before in a single volume.”
— Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University

“A valuable contribution to the next generation of studies on constitutional politics. With well-chosen case studies and a useful analytical framework, Gordon Silverstein helps identify the whys, hows, and so-whats of interactions between politicians and judges in shaping public policy.”
— Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School

Law’s Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves and Kills Politics provides an original and compelling analysis of the complex relationships between law and politics. Professor Silverstein’s insights that juridification in the United States is on the rise, that juridification is more than government by judiciary, and that this escape from politics has numerous hidden costs are interesting and important. The case studies are well written and informative, the research is solid, and the conclusions likely to provoke a good deal of conversation both within and without political science…Professor Silverstein provides a far more nuanced account of the relationship between law and politics than found in the existing political science literature.”
— Mark Graber, Balkinization blog

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, by Tim Wu

The Master Switch哥伦比亚大学法学院吴修铭教授的新作,隆重推荐:

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, by Tim Wu.
Knopf, 2010. ISBN-10: 0307269930. ISBN-13: 9780307269935

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From Publishers Weekly

According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Wu (Who Controls the Internet), the great information empires of the 20th century have followed a clear and distinctive pattern: after the chaos that follows a major technological innovation, a corporate power intervenes and centralizes control of the new medium–the master switch. Wu chronicles the turning points of the century’ s information landscape: those decisive moments when a medium opens or closes, from the development of radio to the Internet revolution, where centralizing control could have devastating consequences. To Wu, subjecting the information economy to the traditional methods of dealing with concentrations of industrial power is an unacceptable control of our most essential resource. He advocates not a regulatory approach but rather a constitutional approach that would enforce distance between the major functions in the information economy–those who develop information, those who own the network infrastructure on which it travels, and those who control the venues of access–and keep corporate and governmental power in check. By fighting vertical integration, a Separations Principle would remove the temptations and vulnerabilities to which such entities are prone. Wu’ s engaging narrative and remarkable historical detail make this a compelling and galvanizing cry for sanity–and necessary deregulation–in the information age.

Review

“An explosive history that makes it clear how the information business became what it is today. Important reading.”
—Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More and Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing; editor of Wired Magazine

“Wu’s book is both a masterful media history and an outline for the future of the digital age. The Master Switch brilliantly describes the never-ending tension between open and closed media, as it has effected everything from the printing press to the web, and details ways society might be able to prevent the disastrous closing down of digital freedoms currently threatening the open internet.”
—Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organization and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

“Every now and then a book changes the way we understand the world. The Master Switch is such an achievement; it is a rigorous, imaginative and enthralling history of the Twentieth Century struggle among utopian innovators, profit-maximizing monopolists, and their often-hapless regulators. Wu has convincingly reinterpreted our media past, and by doing so, he has illuminated the risks to open media and Internet-enabled innovation that confront us in the present.”
—Steve Coll, President, New American Foundation and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

“A masterpiece.”
Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and Professor of Law, Harvard University

“Ranging from the early days of Theodore Vail’s AT&T to the current battle between Google and Apple, Tim Wu’s work is a must read for those who want to know about the future of the Internet. The Master Switch is brilliant, with a distinctive voice that comes through on every page.”
—Josh Silverman, CEO, Skype

“A free and open Internet is not a given. Indeed, corporate interests are working feverishly to seize control of it. Drawing on history, The Master Switch shows how this could easily happen and why we are at risk of losing the freedom we now take for granted. A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.”
—Arianna Huffington

赵鼎新:费纳与政府史研究

The History of Government from the Earliest Times提要:费纳的《政府史》从苏美尔开始,述及萨尔贡、埃及、亚述、犹太、波斯、希腊、中国、罗马、印度、拜占庭、哈利发、中世纪欧洲、日本、奥斯曼等地的政治史,然后把焦点转入文艺复兴和新教运动后的欧美政治的突破性发展,并讨论了当代世界三大革命给世界政治、政府形态和国家社会关系带来的变化。费纳对文化相对主义提出了坚决的反对,并对“西方兴起”这一历史命题做了独到的分析。虽然费纳不是任何一个国家和地区史学专家,但他凭借其卓越的理论和分析能力对世界政府历史和政府制度创新过程做出了一般历史学家远不能及的描述和分析。《政府史》是20世纪西方政治学的一部巨著。

关键词:国家 政体 政府制度发展 现代化 文化相对主义

费纳(Samuel E. Finer)的《政府史》共三卷34章(Finer,1997),英文版长达1701页,是20世纪西方政治学中有重大影响的巨著,其中文版即将由华东师范大学出版社出版。《政府史》的主要关注点是世界历史中政府形态的发展。《政府史》以各个国家的政府形态、统治方式和国家社会关系为核心,大致依照时间顺序,先把我们带入世界文明中最为古老的苏美尔城邦,述及萨尔贡、埃及、亚述、犹太、波斯、希腊、中国、罗马、印度、拜占庭、哈利发、中世纪欧洲、日本、奥斯曼帝国等地区和国家的政治史,然后把焦点转入文艺复兴和新教运动后的欧洲各国和美洲殖民地政治制度的突破性发展,最后,集中讨论影响当代世界的三大革命(美国革命、法国革命及工业革命),以及这些革命给世界政治、政府形态和国家社会关系所带来的前所未有的变化。

费纳长期以来一直是政治学界特别是英国政治学界的一个领军人物,他的不少早期著作皆是政治学和政治社会学领域的经典,特别是《马背上的人:军事力量在政治中的作用》(Finer,1962)。费纳在1982年开始撰写《政府史》时已经退休,1987年,费纳在一场心肌梗塞后幸免于难,此后,他在健康状况不断恶化的情况下坚持写作且进展迅速,直到1993年去世。去世前《政府史》已完成计划中36章的34章。《政府史》由费纳的夫人凯瑟琳·费纳及杰克·哈瓦德(Jack Hayward)进行编辑后出版。作者的去世使得《政府史》终止在工业革命。如果假以时日,想必费纳会对整个20世纪的政治发展,特别是苏联解体和全球化对国家政治发展的影响有所涉及,并且会在书末提供一个总结和展望,使读者能对全书有个更完整的了解。虽然《政府史》的不完整性给我们带来了遗憾,但读过《政府史》的人都承认,全书34章有一气呵成之感。直到最后几章,作者仍能广征博引,并以他所特有的睿智,为我们展现近代政治的关键发展及其背后的逻辑,锋芒丝毫不减。

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