Mobilizing from the Margins: Domestic Citizen Politics and Yasukuni Shrine

Prime Minister Koizumi’s six consecutive annual visits to Yasukuni shrine played a key role in initiating a new phase of domestic citizen political mobilization not seen since the early 1970s. This paper is based on field research during the Koizumi years (2001–2006) centering on domestic groups that conduct activities in “protection” of or “opposition” to Yasukuni shrine. As a study of street-based politics, this paper seeks to uncover the processes, strategies, and outcomes of citizen responses to elite political action at Yasukuni Shrine as well as explore meaning of their actions within the context of Japan’s democratic polity.

制度创新:21世纪我国公安行政改革的主旋律

改革我国公安行政现有与时代不相适应的制度,进行有效的制度创新,给我国公安行政改革注入新的活力,是新世纪新阶段我国公安行政改革的必然趋势。本文在结合我国公安行政改革实践的基础上,分析了制定我国未来公安行政改革奋斗目标应体现的特点和要求,并具体分析了我国公安行政改革制度创新的奋斗目标。制度创新必将成为21世纪我国公安行政改革的主旋律。     

我国政府信息资源管理的现状及完善——以美国联邦政府制度经验为参照

政府掌握的信息数量庞大,且质量要求较高,如何管理、综合开发和有效利用这些信息资源成为对政府工作的新挑战。信息资源管理通过时信息活动的有效管理与运作,使信息的周期运动能够更好地完成政府任务、实现绩效目标。我国应结合实际不足,借鉴国外先进经验,对政府信息资源管理问题与相关制度建设进行梳理。     

关于入世后加强上海市外来流动人口长效管理的思考

入世后的上海外来流动人口管理机制,必须满足劳动力要素市场化配置和人才资源自由流动的要求;另一方面,又要结合上海的实际情况,对人口总量予以一定的控制。     

社会转型过程中的中国工会

中国从计划经济到市场经济的变革,对社会生活的各个方面都产生了巨大的影响。在这个社会转型期中产权关系、劳动关系、社会结构等方面所发生的一系列的重大变化,对中国工会来说是挑战也是机遇。中国工会要抓住机遇,勇于创新,发挥自己应有的重要作用。     

基层社会自我管理与依法治理

基层社会依法治理主要是广大人民群众依照宪法和法律的规定 ,通过各种途径和形式 ,参与管理本区域、本行业、本单位内的各项事务 ,并逐步走上法治轨道。在这个过程中 ,要正确处理自我管理与依法管理的关系 ,解决好组织机构、管理规范、实现途径和相关的监督问题。     

工会转型期需要注意把握的几个关系

要正确认识工会转型和社会转型的关系,要正确认识工会转型与国际工会的关系,要充分认识到工会转型期也是工会发展的重要机遇。     

科学发展观与哲学社会科学的使命

推动科学发展观的贯彻落实,需要哲学社会科学加强研究其理论体系和系统性,探索科学的思想方法及观念,积极参加与之相适应的新制度、新机制、新政策的设计。哲学社会科学要坚持科研为民,把研究民生问题放在突出位置;要按照全面协调可持续发展要求,把握和处理好应用对策研究与基础理论研究、整合社科研究“五路大军”资源与发挥各自特长、研究成果的质量与数量等重要关系。     

Globalisation

The term ‘globalisation’ is widely used to describe a variety of economic, cultural, social, and political changes that have shaped the world over the past 50-odd years. Because it is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, globalisation has been credited with a wide range of powers and effects. Its proponents claim that it is both ‘natural’ and an inevitable outcome of technological progress, and creates positive economic and political convergences. Critics argue that globalisation is hegemonic and antagonistic to local and national economies. This article argues that globalisation is a form of capitalist expansion that entails the integration of local and national economies into a global, unregulated market economy. Although economic in its structure, globalisation is equally a political phenomenon, shaped by negotiations and interactions between institutions of transnational capital, nation states, and international institutions. Its main driving forces are institutions of global capitalism – especially transnational corporations – but it also needs the firm hand of states to create enabling environments for it to take root. Globalisation is always accompanied by liberal democracy, which facilitates the establishment of a neo-liberal state and policies that permit globalisation to flourish. The article discusses the relationship between globalisation and development and points out that some of the most common assumptions promoted by its proponents are contradictory to the reality of globalisation; and that globalisation is resisted by more than half of the globe's population because it is not capable of delivering on its promises of economic well being and progress for all.     

德国法律保留原则论析

德国传统法律保留原则只具有规范行政的单面意义,是行政法律保留;而现代法律保留原则具有规范行政与立法的双面意义,既是行政法律保留,也是立法法律保留。行政法律保留是所有议会立法型的法治国家的共通要求,而立法法律保留则是德国基本法上的授权明确性条款和德国联邦宪法法院发展的重要性理论的产物,是颇具德国个性的法律制度。对于德国现代的立法法律保留,应当予以全面的观察。