Drivers of Autonomy of Public Agencies in Italy

The creation of agencies has been and still is a widespread trend in the public sector: governments in many countries often establish semi‐autonomous single‐purpose organizations to carry out a wide range of functions and tasks. The trend to autonomization is problematic as it affects public sector's governance: several bodies operate partly autonomously from the core elective government, and are sometimes loosely coupled with their ‘parent’ administration. Consequently, analysing the drivers of agencies’ autonomy is a crucial issue for public management. This paper, in the light of some major contributions in organizational science, assumes that agencies’ autonomy is influenced by factors that affect post‐delegation relationships: agencies’ structure, culture and nature of the tasks executed. The study was aimed at testing a range of hypotheses about the autonomy of public agencies, using for this purpose the so‐far not investigated case of Italy–much in the spirit of the accumulation of knowledge in an area of public management. Results do not provide any strikingly counter‐intuitive finding, but a mix of confirmations and disconfirmations of previous findings that allow a finer‐grained analysis on the determinants of agency autonomy.     

Autonomy and Effectiveness of Chinese Monetary Policy under the De Facto Fixed Exchange Rate System

This paper uses monthly data to examine the autonomy and effectiveness of monetary policy in China under the de facto fixed exchange rate arrangement in place from 1998 to 2005. The results obtained from Granger causality tests in a vector autoregression framework indicate that： （i） China actually conducted independent monetary policy during the fixed exchange rate period; and （ii） market-oriented policy measures are impotent in influencing real output and prices. The framework of the investigation into the autonomy of monetary policy adapts to the Chinese economic condition that primary loan and deposit rates are set by the central bank. Based on the empirical results, the present paper provides alternative strategies to improve the effectiveness of monetary policy in China, including developing the financial system and solidifying microeconomic fundamentals instead of forcing the adaptation of a more flexible exchange rate regime.     

改革开放30年马克思主义理论在西藏的实践

改革开放以来,西藏自治区政府在中国共产党的领导下,坚持马克思主义世界观和方法论的指导,把马克思主义基本原理同西藏的实践相结合,深入贯彻落实中央各项方针政策,以经济建设为中心,深化改革开放,进一步完善民族区域自治制度,反对一切分裂活动,不断探索推动西藏发展与稳定的基本规律。     

十年建设时期民族区域自治的曲折发展

从1957年到1966年的近10年，是我国开始全面建设社会主义的时期，也是我国民族区域自治曲折发展的时期。在这一时期，民族区域自治呈现出成绩与失误并存、经验与教训交织的双重特征。     

论村民资格纠纷——兼评《农村土地承包经营纠纷调解仲裁法》第二条第二款第四项

我国现行立法与实务将村民资格纠纷视为附随于土地承包经营权等纠纷的从诉进行处理,这不利于纠纷的及时解决。《农村土地承包经营纠纷调解仲裁法》将＂因确认农村土地承包经营权发生的纠纷＂纳入仲裁与诉讼管辖范围,由此可理解为村民资格的确认纠纷也被纳入了仲裁与诉讼管辖范围。确认村民资格应就村民基本生活保障的目的、户籍、住所地、村民权利义务等标准并结合特殊情形综合进行认定,认定机构以村民会议自治为基础,以农业主管部门或基层乡镇人民政府、农村土地承包仲裁委员会或人民法院三种方式作为并列的救济途径。     

Predicting IJVs＇ effectiveness based on their autonomy levels and the characteristics of their parent companies

Separate research streams have identified relationships between IJV autonomy and IJV effectiveness, and between functional/dysfunctional parent-company differentiation and IJV effectiveness. This study attempts to integrate these two literature streams by examining how these two sets of independent variables interact in terms of predicting IJV effectiveness. Results partially support our hypotheses that the autonomy-effectiveness relationship is less positive with greater functional differentiation and more positive with greater dysfunctional differentiation. The results provide strong support for our hypotheses that activities closer to the local operating environment will influence these relationships such that autonomy becomes more important to effectiveness when an activity has strong local ties.     

民族自治与政治整合——西班牙民族政策评析

通过对西班牙民族政策的历史考察,我们可以得到两点启示：一是政治体系在处理民族问题过程中要具备民主的妥协精神;二是在处理民族问题时要解决好统一与自治、民族与自决的对立和统一,让＂统一＂而非＂对立＂占据上风。     

2009印尼矿业法的简析与启示

印尼是世界上矿产资源非常丰富的国家.自印尼2001年实行地方自治以来,外国对印尼矿业投资处于下滑状态.矿业法律出现的诸多问题与印尼政府发展本国矿业的宏观定位发生了剧烈冲突.各方博弈之后,国会终于批准了在2009年生效的新<矿产与煤炭法>.2009矿业法对既往法律和矿业制度进行了全新改造,对其主要制度进行对比,可得出该法对我国的借鉴意义.     

The Ethical Climate of Danish Firms: A Discussion and Enhancement of the Ethical-Climate Model

The initial purpose of this study is to provide an empirical validation of Victor and Cullen’s ethical-climate model (1987, Frederick (ed.), Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 9, pp. 51–71; 1988, Administrative Science Quarterly 33, 101–125; 1990, Frederick and Preston (eds.), Business Ethics: Research Issues and Empirical Studies (JAI Press Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut), pp. 77–97). Testing the model on a sample of Danish firms, this study demonstrates that the empirical model as suggested by Victor and Cullen is much stronger than suggested by previous research. Based on a confirmatory factor model, the results of this study suggest a revised ethical structure. Especially a sixth dimension – own interest – is separated from the original instrumental dimension. Further, this study suggests that the ethical-climate model can be enhanced with the dimension of autonomy deriving from Koys and DeCotiis’ (1991, Human Relations 44(3), 265–285.) dimensional psychological climate instrument.     

社会分化和转型背景下的中国村民自治问题

根据民政部2006年在全国实施的问卷抽样调查获得的数据,从不同村民对村民自治的认知和态度以及他们在村民自治中的行动等层面,剖析了村民自治的实践效果.并对村民自治建设中存在的问题以及实践提出的理论问题进行了讨论.