Undergraduate Research at Two-Year Community Colleges

There is a growing movement in academia that focuses on increased efforts at undergraduate research. Historically, this movement has been driven by faculty in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and has only recently become a focus for social sciences in general and political science in particular. For students to be successful at conducting undergraduate research, they should be exposed to it as soon as they are ready. This requires exposing students to undergraduate research in the freshmen and sophomore years. There is no reason this exposure should be limited to four-year institutions. To that end, a new journal has been created for students in political science and other social science courses at two-year colleges so they can be recognized for their undergraduate research. The Social Science Text and Academic Research (STAR) Journal is a peer/faculty-reviewed journal limited to students at two-year colleges.     

改革开放以来工会调研工作回顾与前瞻

着眼改革开放以来党和国家事业、工人运动和工会工作不同阶段,运用翔实史料全面客观反映工会调研工作的发展变化,对进一步推进工会理论与实践的创新发展具有重要意义。本文以工会调研工作为研究对象,结合改革开放时代背景,按照不同的历史阶段,以党和国家重大事件、工会重点工作为主线,对中国工会九大以来工会调研工作的发展历程、主要成效、经验特点和问题不足进行了梳理,并立足新形势新任务,对加强和改进工会调研工作进行了展望,提出了总体要求和重点任务。     

言语识别技术发展概述

本文着重综述并探讨了文件检验技术的重要组成部分——言语识别技术的学科发展历程、近30年学术成果现状、存在问题以及未来的发展思考.     

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Methods? Methodological Games and Role Play

In terms of gamification within political science, some fields—particularly international relations and American politics—have received more attention than others. One of the most underserved parts of the discipline is research methods; a course that, coincidentally, is frequently cited as one that instructors hate to teach and students hate to take. Given the well-documented merits of games in promoting student engagement and the key role of methods as a building block to student understanding of political science, this article attempts to rectify this oversight by introducing three games—Zendo, Murder Mystery, and the Archeologist’s Quandary— geared at teaching key concepts and approaches in research methods.     

Empowering the Party-Crasher: Donald J. Trump,the First 2016 GOP Presidential Debate,and the Twitter Marketplace for Political Campaigns

This article argues that an important political marketplace of keywords expands in social media around campaign events such as a debate; that rhetorical efforts to define the situation in which a campaign event occurs are met in this marketplace by user responses that more or less echo the keywords, thereby enhancing or diminishing the political power of their “caller” or speaker; and that social media monitoring platforms can enhance our understanding of public opinion influence competitions among candidates through the careful selection, tabulation, and inspection of words and phrases being voiced. In the case at hand, an analysis of Twitter volume data and a reading of a sample of 1200 tweets between July 30 and August 15, 2015, a period enveloping the first 2016 Republican presidential candidate debate on August 6, 2015, helps us understand how Donald J. Trump escaped political punishment from party and media elites for subverting Republican and U.S. norms of candidate behavior. Elite voices greatly disapproved of Trump’s debate performance and conduct, a traditional augury of declining public support. But the presence of social media voices enhanced Trump’s capacity to succeed with an insurgent marketing strategy, one he would continue into his election as president fifteen months later. Specifically, comparatively high user volume on a debate-oriented section of Twitter (i.e., posts with the hashtag #GOPDebate) for Trump’s name, slogan, and Twitter address, and for such advantageous keywords as “political correctness,” “Megyn Kelly,” and “illegal immigration” relative to terms and phrases favoring other candidates and Republicans as a whole indicates the presence of heavy and active popular support for Trump. The contents of the corresponding tweet sample exhibit Twitter-savvy techniques and populist stances by which the Trump campaign solicited that support: celebrity feuding, callouts to legacy media allies, featured fan comments, a blunt vernacular, and confrontational branding. The contents also illustrate ways in which users manifested their support: from the aforementioned high keyword volume to imitative behavior and the supplying of evidence to verify Trump’s contested claims during the debate.     

国家安全新需求与军事理论创新

军事发展需要先进的军事理论作为引领和指导。具有穿透力和前瞻性的军事理论研究，不仅必须在充分借鉴国内外已有研究成果和实践经验的基础上，同时还必须关注国际安全背景的演变及其带来的限制条件的变化，把握重大问题发展演变的内在线索和逻辑，并形成系统性和可验证的知识体系。只有国家现代化才有军事学术的现代化，而学术现代化又反过来助推国家战略能力的提升。新时代国家安全需求为军事理论发展创造了更广阔的空间，加上中华文明丰厚的战略思想遗产可资借鉴，今天的军事理论创新具有十分有利的条件。在新军事革命浪潮中，理论研究不能迷失方向，要在历史、现实和未来之间架起有益的桥梁，这样才能跟踪战争形态演变，理解战争制胜机理，准确把握当代战争的特点和规律，提出具有指向性、系统性的军事思想，也才能使军事斗争准备真正反映当代战争的本质要求。战略是决定国家命运的关键要素。历史发展证明，殖民主义、霸权主义的老路已经行不通，中国要走出一条不同于传统权力争霸的和平发展道路，对军事能力建设及其运用提出了相应的更高要求，也需要军事实践和理论的强有力支撑，并必然成为理论创新的重要动力来源。     

The Coming Age of China’s Mental Health Social Work and Practical Research Agendas

As six Departments of the National Health and Family Planning Commission enacted ‘The Notification of Implementing the Pilot Work on the Integrated Management of Mental Health’(National CDC，2015，No.57) in April 2015, that year has been seen as the first year of the coming of social work on mental health as well as the milestone of epoch-making and historical significance, marking that Chinese people need structural transformation and the development of health care system toward modernity. Mental health has become a national, universal and highest level of health needs. For the four decades since the reform and opening up, China has made remarkable achievements of policies and regulations on mental health, initially forming the system and framework of mental health policies and regulations with Chinese characteristics. However, social workers still stay in a “marginalized” position and cannot give their due profession to full play. The article first provides a succinct outline of the scope, contents and priorities of the framework and system with regard to mental health social work practices. Then the focus is to build China’s social work practical research agendas of mental health, to draw up a “list of practical research issues”of China’s social work on mental health, to designate the direction for future development of social work of mental health and to lay the foundation of social work for the full realization of the magnificent goal of the Healthy China and well-off society.     

Exploring the Deep Antecedent of Public Service Motivation

Contrarily to most studies of the antecedents of public service motivation (PSM) focusing on the proximal work environment or personal characteristics, we seek to explore plausibly important deep antecedents of PSM that lie in the formative years of a person’s upbringing. Using an online survey of public service professionals that asked detailed background questions, we find that three deep antecedents are associated with lower overall PSM and its constitutive elements: growing up in a religious family, growing up in a family with a conservative point of view, and (surprisingly) being raised by a parent who served in the military.     

Psychotropic Medications for Youth in Child Welfare: Developing and Pilot-Testing A Field Guide for Team Decision-Making

High rates of children involved with the child welfare system are prescribed psychotropics. In response, federal legislation has mandated state child welfare agencies to develop policies to improve the coordination and oversight around the use of psychotropics. This project aimed to support such policies by developing and pilot-testing a field guide for team discussions and decision-making related to the use of psychotropics among youth in child welfare. We used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework to engage a team of local stakeholders, including former youth in foster care and parents, in the research. We developed a field guide to facilitate team discussions and decisions around the individual needs and preferences of youth and families, and we pilot-tested the field guide with child welfare staff, parents, and care team members in seven team meetings. Parents and care team members, in particular, highly valued the guide and found it useful to increase knowledge and improve practices such as side effect monitoring and information sharing. Child welfare responses were more mixed, and some reported feeling burdened by the additional tasks. More work is needed to integrate the guide into routine child welfare practice and reduce burden on staff.