推进基层党内民主建设的探索与思路

在扩大和发展农村基层党内民主的实践过程中,安徽省五河县围绕选举制度、监督制度、党务公开制度等创设出许多新的发展形式,取得了明显成效。同时要认识存在的问题,解放思想,深化措施,进一步加强基层党内民主建设。     

Beyond shareholders versus stakeholders: Towards a Rawlsian concept of the firm

This paper critiques the principle of shareholder value and offers an alternative paradigm. We consider different theories describing the corporation and its relationship with shareholders, concluding that much of the modern academic discourse on corporate governance centres around the notion of the firm as a contractual arrangement. We provide a full critique of shareholder primacy from an economic as well as a moral perspective, which includes a focus on Rawls. An alternative contractarian paradigm is offered, one that is based on the concept of the corporation as a ‘social union.’ This characterisation justifies participation of a wider group of stakeholders in the governance of a corporation, and we make a distinction between electoral and moral constituents. A role for the application of the principles of deliberative democracy is also discussed.     

纳税意识与民主意识

很多论者仅把纳税意识概括为纳税的自觉遵从与诚信意识，但完整的现代纳税意识包括了纳税义务与权利的对等意识，本文通过历史与逻辑分析，阐述了纳税意识与民主意识的内在联系，据此剖析了自觉诚信纳税意识的由来和当前我国“纳税意识淡薄”的深层原因，并引出树立现代纳税意识对培养公民的现代民主意识和中国社会主义民主政治建设的重要意义。     

完善党内选举制度是党内民主的根本

党内选举制度是衡量党内民主发展程度的重要标志,是党内民主的一项根本制度;党内选举制度难免有一些不够完善的方面,特别是“党组织负责人”的选举存在一些问题;要进一步推进党内民主的发展,就必须从制度完善和实际运作两个方面入手,解决影响各级党代会权威和广大党员及党员代表选举权利的问题。     

Time-Consistent Polities and Growth in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis

This paper investigates whether stable political regimes develop stable systems of rules that are conducive to growth, similar to property rights. New measures of political stability indicate that stable political systems stimulate growth in developing autocratic countries. Contrarily, political instability significantly reduces growth in autocracies, as instability creates a time-consistency problem. In some specifications, an instability measure has significant negative growth effects in democracies, and may be an alternative to measures of property rights. Similarly, ethnic fractionalization reduces growth in autocracies, but not developing democracies. Tests indicate that these results are not sensitive to extreme values in the data. JEL no. O40, H11     

民主的普适性与中国式民主的可能性——兼与景跃进教授商榷

景跃进教授强调民主具有特殊性,因而难以简单地普遍适用于各个国家。本文部分地赞同这种观点,但反对因此否认民主是一种普适价值。文章认为不能因为民主的特殊性而否认其普适性。中国式民主是一种新型民主模式。在接受民主普世价值的前提下,大力建设中国式民主,是推进我国政治文明建设的正确选择。     

Inclusive institutions and economic growth: comparative perspective and policy implications for China

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the empirical relationship between the presence of inclusive institutions and the pattern of economic growth in a cross-country setting. We find evidence that the presence of inclusive institutions, indicated by political democracy, positively affects consumption share. In turn, the increase of the latter in the preceding year is associated with a significantly higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The link from democracy to TFP growth via consumption is stronger for countries of higher levels of income. These findings suggest that institutional inclusiveness may have become increasingly important for economic growth when the level of income rises. We also provide preliminary evidence that consumption may have facilitated productivity growth via the channels of increasing innovations and reducing social conflicts. The findings shed lights on the structural transformations toward a more inclusive and sustainable model of growth in China today.

Abbreviations: FE: GMM: Generalized method of moments PWT: TFP: Total factor productivity     

经济民主:从概念厘定到基础论证

长期以来经济民主的概念一直是混乱的,因此有必要在厘清各种不同概念的基础上对其予以明确界定。市场经济和公有制共同构成了经济民主的基础：     

浅议宪法原则

宪法原则是构成宪法价值共同体的基础,是宪法制度与程序中的价值和理念。宪法原则由民主原则与法治原则组成,本文分别介绍了民主原则、法治原则,最后对两者之间的关系进行了分析。     

畅通群众利益诉求渠道,推进基层民主建设——浙江衢州“民情沟通日”活动的启示

2008年一系列群体性事件显示,群众诉求渠道不畅,群体利益协商、调整机制缺失,已成为引发冲突的主要诱因,因此疏通群众利益诉求渠道、破除体制性梗阻、推进基层民主政治建设,是化解群体性事件频发困局的当务之急。浙江衢州的民情沟通日活动,畅通了群众利益诉求渠道;夯实了基层民主建设的基础;构建了基层民主建设的新平台;为破解这一迷局提供了有益的尝试。