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| Seminars and Talks |
| Spring 2002 |
4/12/2002
Speaker: Xu, Xiaobing (Law)
Topic: Historical development of Mediation in the PRC and the US
Abstract:
As the title indicates, it compares the historical development of mediation in two different societies. Mediation in China has been a national tradition with long history and nation-wide use - given an ancient cultural bias toward conciliation - while mediation in the US, though of increasing utility, has been a more contemporary phenomenon at the national level and is still shadowed by its deeply entrenched legalism. The article divides China's mediation history into pre-PRC mediation tradition (which includes not only imperial China but also the ROC period) and PRC mediation history. Similarly, it divides the US mediation history into the early American mediation tradition and modern American mediation development. The study shows that very much like their respective state systems (the PRC "unitary" and the US "federal"), China has throughout its history cultivated a national system of institutional mediation, featuring not only systematic administrative and judicial mediation practice but also the world's largest uniform semi-administrative mediation network, especially the PRC's people's mediation system; the US, meanwhile, has developed a federal-state and pluralistic modern mediation structure, featuring not only separate federal and state mediation institutions and programs, but also variety of forms and practice of mediation institutions and programs - for example, every mediation program in the federal circuit courts is different from the other ones in its particularities - run by various public and private sponsors. The US has, at least, enacted more mediation related laws, state and federal, than the PRC has.
5/03/2002
Speaker: Kuo, Tai-chun (Research Fellow in Hoover Institute)
Topic: Breaking with the Past: The Creation of Taiwan's Modern Market Economy, 1949-1960
5/17/2002
Speaker: Zhou, Li-an (Economics)
Topic: The Career Concerns of Chinese Local Officials: An Empirical Study
Abstract:
One peculiar feature of Chinas remarkable economic growth over the past two decades is that subnational government officials have played a vital role in promoting local economy. In explaining the strong incentive of local officials, the existing literature primarily focuses on the role of fiscal decentralization and fiscal incentive created by intergovernmental revenue-sharing contracts. Li-an's study examines the career concerns of local officials in the context of intergovernmental fiscal relations in China and explores how the career concerns affect the economic behavior of local officials. This study contributes to the existing literature by (1) as a first attempt, presenting systemic evidence on the presence of career concerns and its incentive impact on the efforts of Chinese local officials, and (2) demonstrating the interaction effect between career concerns and fiscal incentive and how this interaction effect shapes Chinas central-local fiscal relations in reform era. Li-an will also elaborate more on how the career concerns of local officials can become a constructive perspective to interpreting the behavior of Chinese local officials in post-Maoist China.
6/07/2002
Speaker: Su, Yang (Sociology)
Topic: Mobilization through State Apparatuses: The Cultural Revolution in Rural Counties in June 1966-January 1967
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