Sophisticated voting and gate-keeping in the supreme court

'Sophisticated voting' has a solid theoretical foundation, butscholars have raised serious questions about its empirical importancein real-world institutions. The U.S. Supreme Court is one institutionwhere sophisticated voting should be common, but, paradoxically,where scholarly consensus about its existence has yet to emerge.We develop and test a formal model of sophisticated voting onagenda setting in the Supreme Court. Using data on petitionsfor certiorari decided in October term 1982, we show that, aboveand beyond the usual forces in case selection, justices engagein sophisticated voting, defined as looking forward to the decisionon the merits and acting with that potential outcome in mind,and do so in a wide range of circumstances. In particular, wepresent strong evidence for sophisticated behavior, rangingfrom votes to deny a case one prefers to reverse to votes togrant cases one prefers to affirm. More importantly, sophisticatedvoting makes a substantial difference in the size and contentof the Court's plenary agenda.     

The warren court,inequality and the poor

This paper presents a gender perspective of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. The TAA is the primary US policy to assist the transition of workers displaced due to trade related economic restructuring. In comparison to the relatively substantial research on gendering trade policies in developing economies there is very limited focus on gendering policy responses to trade in the US. We argue that there is a specific gender trend in the trade-displacement patterns in the US which calls for a gender sensitive policy response. We examine the TAA in light of this trend and offer some suggestions for a gendered approach to providing assistance to workers negotiating an increasingly flexible global labor market.     

论我国法院调解制度存续的合理性

法院调解是民事诉讼法上一项基本原则,虽然在司法实践中我国法院调解制度存在一些缺陷,但在现阶段仍有着存续的合理性。     

HIPAA Privacy Rules: protecting patient information requested through discovery, subpoenas and court orders

Health plans routinely receive requests for patient health care information in lawsuits and administrative proceedings, whether through court order, subpoena, discovery requests or otherwise. The HIPAA Privacy Rules describe what protections a health plan must obtain before disclosing patient health information without prior authorization. This article focuses on the regulatory framework governing health plans, a review of recent case law applying these HIPAA regulations and a practical guide for how a health plan may proceed upon receiving requests for disclosure.     

Parliament vs. Supreme court: a veto player framework of the Indian constitutional experiment in the area of economic and civil rights

This essay is on the Indian constitution and extends and responds to the work of Singh (Constitutional Political Economy 17:17, 2006) in the analysis of economic rights. The veto player framework is used to analyze the development of economic rights which was diminished and civil rights (through Public Interest Litigation) which was expanded since Indian independence. The Congleton Model (Constitutional Political Economy 12:193–215, 2001) and Tsebelis Model (British Journal of Political Science 25(3):298–325, 1995) on veto players are used to develop the hypotheses and analyze the evolution of the Indian constitution.     

基于文本挖掘技术的企业文化对公司绩效的影响:回顾与展望

本文基于文本挖掘技术的演进,分析了这一技术在企业文化研究领域的应用,回顾和展望了使用该方法对于企业价值影响的相关研究.研究发现,调查问卷等传统研究方式相对文本挖掘分析方法不能够相对科学客观地描述企业文化,在企业文化对企业价值的影响上体现出来相对偏差.本文认为,国内基于文本挖掘技术对企业文化的维度进行衡量与企业文化对企业价值的影响研究领域有待进一步发展.     

工资水平对通货膨胀影响时序变化的实证研究

基于1991-2006年的时间序列数据就中国平均工资水平对通货膨胀影响的实证分析结果表明：中国工资水平对通货膨胀的影响是显著的,平均工资水平的提高会使得物价上涨。因此,当前要加快中国的市场化进程,就要把握好工资上涨的幅度和力度,制定合理的收入政策,同时增强企业技术创新,加强管理,进而减少通货膨胀的不利影响,促进经济又好又快发展。     

浅谈工程造价的全过程控制

以工程造价为研究对象,借鉴国际上先进的工程投资理念,简要探讨了建设工程从前期论证、设计、招投标、施工到竣工的全过程造价控制方法,着重指出了工程设计阶段主动控制造价的重要性及具体措施,以期转变观念,加强工程造价的有效控制。     

证券投资实验教学方法创新设计

实验教学将证券投资理论和业务知识的学习与实践相结合,以具有直观性、即时性和适应性特点的多媒体、信息化网络教学为载体,充分满足了新形势下培养既熟悉本国金融运行特点和规律,又通晓证券投资规则和惯例的高素质金融人才的需要。     

人口城市化对消费需求的影响

改革开放以来,我国经济得到了长足的发展,但消费需求不足的问题越来越突出,在一定程度上制约了我国经济的发展。城乡二元经济结构是导致消费需求不足的根本原因,城市化是解决消费需求不足的必由之路。城市化对消费增长产生收入效应、示范效应、扩张与循环累积效应等影响。实证分析表明：城市化水平的提高带动了消费需求增长。因此,加快人口城市化进程,提高人口城市化率是增加我国消费需求的根本途径。