Bringing the Falklands/Malvinas Home: Young People's Everyday Engagements with Geopolitics in Domestic Space

This paper draws on recent research examining feminist and everyday geopolitics to focus on the relatively neglected domestic sphere as a space where geopolitical events like the Falklands/Malvinas war are learnt, (re)produced, remembered and contested by young people. It presents qualitative data drawn from interviews with young people from Argentina (Río Gallegos) and the Falkland Islands (Stanley), locations with intimate connections to the 1982 war. It argues that research in domestic environments that engages the familial relations, objects and practices that embody geopolitical pasts can help make sense of how young people (are able to) express geopolitical agency.     

协调运转+统分结合:统筹疫情防控和经济社会发展的国家治理策略

“统筹推进新冠肺炎疫情防控和经济社会发展”是当前国家治理的紧迫议题,关键在于科学和政策。在科学维度,疫情防控要从医疗系统的专业性和复杂性出发,建立医疗与决策、商业和社会系统的依赖共存关系,实现系统之间的协调运转;在政策维度,企业复工复产和脱贫攻坚要突出地方治理的经验、特色和优势,坚持统分结合,健全充分发挥中央和地方两个积极性体制机制,发挥地方治理效能。在坚持中央集中统一领导下,四大系统协调运转,奠基于法理型组织建设,形成国家治理的新方略;中央与地方统分结合,形塑于两大核心理念,形成国家治理的新动力。二者相辅相成,共同作用,为统筹推进疫情防控和经济社会发展保驾护航。     

Red Tape,Rule Burden,and Legitimate Performance Trade-Offs: Results from a Vignette Experiment

Abstract

Goals in the public sector are complex and managers can face situations in which pursuing one legitimate goal necessitates performance trade-offs in other areas. This study tests how knowledge of legitimate performance trade-offs shapes the perception of red tape. Using a vignette experimental design and a sample of university students, between group t-tests and regression analyses suggest that, when evaluating increased rule burden, individuals that are provided with information about how objectively burdensome rules serve alternative values such as equity and effectiveness associate them with lower levels of red tape. A series of Monte Carlo simulations suggest that this effect is substantial.     

Speaking of Justice: A Qualitative Interview Study on Perceived Procedural Justice Among Defendants in Dutch Criminal Cases

Qualitative interviews with one hundred defendants in Dutch criminal cases examine whether perceived procedural justice is a relevant concern for defendants, and, if so, which procedural justice components they refer to. The study provides a point of epistemological departure from the quantitative studies dominating the field, as it assessed which components of procedural justice (if any) respondents put forward themselves rather than asking about predetermined procedural justice components. The large majority of respondents mentioned procedural justice issues themselves, and six components were at the core of their procedural justice perceptions: (1) information on which decisions are based, (2) interpersonal treatment, (3) due consideration, (4) neutrality, (5) voice, and (6) accuracy. Although these procedural justice components largely correspond with the literature, respondents thus mentioned some components more often, and others less often, than the literature would suggest. In particular, neutrality plays an important role in the Dutch legal context examined here.     

Designing a Choice Architecture for Regulators

The emergence of behavioral public administration has led to increasing calls for public managers and policy makers to consider predictable cognitive biases when regulating individual behaviors or market transactions. Recognizing that cognitive biases can also affect the regulators themselves, this article attempts to understand how the institutional environment in which regulators operate interacts with their cognitive biases. In other words, to what extent does the “choice architecture” that regulators face reinforce or counteract predictable cognitive biases? Just as knowledge of behavioral insights can help regulators design a choice architecture that frames individual decisions to encourage welfare-enhancing choices, it may help governments understand and design institutions to counter cognitive biases in regulators that contribute to deviations from public interest policies. From these observations, the article offers some modest suggestions for improving the regulatory choice architecture.     

构建和谐社会视野下的和合精神与统一战线

统一战线作为中国共产党在新时期新阶段执政兴国的重要法宝,对于建设社会主义和谐社会,尤其是建设社会主义和谐政治负有义不容辞的历史责任。要站在新时代、新理论、新思维的高度,在构建社会主义和谐社会的开阔视野下,深化统一战线认识,丰富统一战线理论。要从中华传统文化的根源上,将弘扬和合文化与丰富中国特色社会主义统一战线理论紧密联系,使之成为统一战线理论的组成部分,使统一战线理论深深地根植于中华传统文化的沃土之中。     

Defense Industries and Global Dependency

The global defense industrial sector is a remarkably accurate indicator of the distribution of power in the post-Cold War international system. However, the defense industrial sector as a policy tool has received relatively little scrutiny, even though it not only reflects the international order, but also provides the United States with the ability to influence the foreign policy behavior of other states. The defense industrial sector is a powerful, if undervalued, diplomatic tool in the United States’ political arsenal.     

The several costs of responding to the threat of terrorism

This paper describes several dimensions of the cost of the U.S. response to the threat of terrorism. Following an evaluation of the nature and magnitude of the threat of terrorism against the United States, the paper describes the restrictions on our civil liberties, the fiscal and other costs of the major homeland security measures, the fiscal cost of programs that make no contribution to the defense against terrorism but are rationalized on that ground, and the effects on our language and the potential for civil discourse of an extended defense against terrorism.     

关于当前经济形势、矛盾与对策的简要分析

本文分析了当前宏观形势中有利的一面,同时分析了存在的矛盾和问题,提出了解决矛盾和问题的方向。