Public Support for Climate Change Policy: Consistency in the Influence of Values and Attitudes Over Time and Across Specific Policy Alternatives

This study examines the factors that explain public preferences for a set of climate change policy alternatives. While scholarly work indicates a relationship between attitudes and values on views toward specific issues, the literature often examines general support for issues rather than specific policy proposals. Consequently, it is unclear the extent to which these attitudes and values affect specific policy considerations. This project examines public support for five climate change policy options in two national surveys taken three years apart. The empirical analysis reveals that time is a factor and that those who are liberal, have strong ecological values, report greater concern for climate change, and trust experts are consistently more supportive of the climate policy options considered here. The results shed new light on the nuanced views of the American public toward climate change.     

Citizen Participation in Public Administration: Views from Lebanon

This article examines citizen participation in Lebanon. Specifically, we apply the International Association for Public Participation Spectrum of Public Participation (2007) and use survey, interview, and archival data to understand how and why Lebanese government agencies use citizen participation. In addition to reviewing survey data, we present short cases about citizen participation in the three Lebanese agencies. Our findings indicate that the majority of public agencies in Lebanon use basic forms of citizen participation that span the inform-consult categories on the IAP2 spectrum. The article concludes with a discussion about the challenges of and prospects for citizen participation in the Lebanese public sector.     

论科学发展观的历史地位和时代价值

科学发展观是中国特色社会主义理论体系的最新成果,是在深入分析当今时代新变化、实践新发展和人民新期待基础上形成的科学认识,是中国共产党集体智慧的结晶,是马克思主义关于发展的世界观和方法论的集中体现,把对中国特色社会主义规律的认识提高到新的水平。解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进、求真务实,是科学发展观的精神实质,必须把握关键、抓住重点,将科学发展观真正落到实处。     

全球治理与中国的战略选择

全球治理的理论起源于20世纪冷战终结之际,随着全球化的深入发展而形成。从现代世界体系和国际关系的发展角度来看,全球化最为直接的影响在于对传统大国产生巨大的冲击,即不断地将原来以国家为中心的国际体系逐步推向一个由多元权威结构构成的多元中心的全球体系。在全球化不断发展的国际环境下,大国之间的关系已经并非原有传统的、局限的、简单的大国关系,而是在多元行为体互动的过程中以合作为基础发展演变的大国关系,在这样的大国关系中,全球治理必然对大国关系产生巨大的影响。     

央企党建的价值取向及其实现

现阶段的央企党建主要集中于组织建设、思想建设、人才建设和作风建设等方面,但观其绩效仍存在着组织建设活力不足、思想建设方式单一、作风建设官僚化、制度建设针对性不强等问题。在新形势下,央企党建应适应现代企业制度的发展要求,确立正确的价值取向,实现中央企业党的建设为提升企业的竞争力服务、为央企机制创新服务、为央企人才战略服务以及为央企履行社会责任服务。     

Charitable Choice Implementation: What Public Managers Should Know About Public Opinion and the Potential Impact of Government Funding on Private Giving

Charitable Choice, a cornerstone of President Bush's domestic policy agenda, provides that faith-based organizations (FBOs) will have an opportunity to compete for government contracts. However, few empirical studies examine the impact of public funding to FBOs on individual charitable giving to FBOs. Using public opinion survey data and multivariate analysis to examine this relationship, we find that most financial supporters of FBOs report that they would not change their giving behavior in the wake of increased government funding to FBOs, contrary to the much- established crowding-out hypothesis. The policy and management implications of these findings are discussed.     

VERTICAL STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE PERFORMANCE

We report the results of a study examining the effects of vertical strategic alignment (that is, the degree to which strategic stances are consistent across different organizational levels) on public service performance. Longitudinal multivariate analysis is undertaken on a panel of public organizations over four years. We find that alignment on a prospecting strategy leads to better performance, but that no such effect is observed for a defending strategy. We also find that high levels of prospecting alignment produce stronger positive performance effects in centralized organizations and when environmental uncertainty is high. The implications of these findings for research and practice are considered in the conclusion.     

身份认同与社会性存在：中国国家本体安全的寻求与调适

21世纪以来,在全球化进程和反全球化运动的博弈中,国家安全和国际安全面临着多重身份认同、跨国沟通网络和群体情绪/情感等问题带来的新型挑战。多样的身份认同危机会导致国家处于本体不安全状态,出于维系“社会性存在”的目的,国家会启动情绪/情感性自我保护机制,呈现以“焦虑感”为特征的“非理性行为”,可能带来国家间的安全对抗和冲突。获取国家本体安全取决于国家自传式叙事的连续性与“自我—他者”信任关系协调机制两条路径的均衡发展。在百年大变局下,“何为中国”的自传式叙事正由“内向型”的国家主体性向“外向型”的国际能动性身份转变。新时代中国国家身份转型和国家本体安全的获得,一方面,取决于在中国共产党统一领导下,成功建构国内社会和国际社会共同认可的新型负责任大国叙事体系;另一方面,有赖于重塑和调适中国与西方大国和国际社会的“竞合型”与“和合型”两类信任关系,其调适结果不仅是实现“自我—他者”良性互动的前提,也是决定中国国家安全和国际安全生态的关键。     

农村新型社区建设中存在的问题和解决思路——以四川成都和山东济宁为例

我国城镇化进程的加快,农村城市化、农业产业化快速发展的趋势,对乡村治理和公共服务的提供提出了挑战。2009年农村新型社区建设的提出正是作为推动这一发展的主要途径。目前,农村新型社区建设尚处于试验示范阶段,在各地社区建设中,不可避免会遇到如何处理新型社区与村民自治、双层经营体制之间关系的两大问题,成都和济宁的探索提供了可借鉴的经验,但改革仍面临体制困境和自组织程度低的问题。而此次乡村社会的变革能否全面顺利推进,还需要国家在法律层面对农村新型社区进行清晰定位,理清它与农村原有基本制度的关系,以切实保障村民权利。