Deliberation and Complexity of Thinking. Using the Integrative Complexity Scale to Assess the Deliberative Quality of Minipublics

The quality of deliberative conversations are dependent on citizens compliance with deliberative norms yet there is a lack of methods to assess norm compliance in discussions. Here, the psychological construct of complexity of thinking is claimed to conceptually correspond to the deliberative conversational ideal and adopted as a measurement of deliberative norm compliance. The hypothesis that citizens' complexity of thinking increases as a result of participation in deliberative conversations was tested in a minipublic case study in Sweden. Participants' complexity of thinking was assessed before and after deliberation by responding to an open‐ended question about the topic of debate. Manual coding was used to rate participants integrative complexity. The result confirms the hypothesis, which serves as an indicator of deliberative quality. The study also demonstrates that women get higher increases in complexity, as do highly agreeable individuals and those who hold more liberal views. The findings demonstrate the potential usefulness of integrative complexity as a measurement of deliberative quality.     

Beliefs about Wife Beating among Medical Students from Turkey

The paper presents a study conducted among 173 Turkish medical students, which examined their beliefs about wife beating through a self-administered questionnaire. An integrative conceptual framework was tested as the basis for explaining the students’ beliefs. The results revealed that between 4.5 and 38.7% of the participants justified wife beating, between 3.5 and 5.3% of them tended to believe that battered women benefit from beating, and between 4.7 and 28.5% of them tended to believe that battered women are responsible for their beating. In addition, between 68.4 and 90.6% of the students expressed willingness to help battered women, and although nearly half of them perceived the violent husbands as responsible for their behavior, only about one-quarter of them supported punishing violent husbands. The results also indicate that significant amounts of the variance in students’ beliefs about wife beating can be attributed to their patriarchal ideology toward family life and to their exposure to family violence during childhood and adolescence. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the results for future research, theory development, and training of medical students. Both authors contributed equally to this paper. The order of the names does not indicate seniority of either author.     

破解“城管困境”的战略性人力资源管理视角——基于对北京城市管理综合执法队伍的调查研究

近些年围绕城管执法队伍产生了很多争论,一方面,地方政府对这支队伍有很强的依赖,另一方面,这支队伍受到了很多批评甚至攻击。本文在对北京市城管执法队伍进行深入调查的基础上发现,问题的根源在于国家对这支队伍缺乏明确的战略定位,这导致赋予他们的职责与这支队伍的数量和质量之间出现较为严重的不匹配,再加上没有及时采取措施对这支队伍的结构和管理机制进行优化,结果使城管执法工作的职责不断扩大,与这支队伍的人力资源状况之间的矛盾日益尖锐。相应地,必须从战略和人力资源管理两个层面来寻找解决问题的方案,即借助战略性人力资源管理思想来化解城管困境。     

社会治安综合治理中的道德建设

道德能以其巨大而又独特的社会控制力,有效地弥补转型期法制建设中的不足,并有力地缓解现阶段严峻的社会治安形势。因此,我们要适时加强道德建设,并将其融于社会治安综合治理之中。     

浅谈树木整体分离痕迹的分析利用

木材整体分离痕迹的检验、鉴定具有较为显著的客观依据和现实可能,一般可通过分析、利用树木的截面形状、树皮状态、年轮、髓心、木射线等树木种类结构特征和锯、斧、镐、锹等工具形成的树木分离痕迹实现。     

综合法学:法的全景解读

20世纪,西方兴起了一个试图融合三大法学派为一体的综合法学,他们力图构建一个"适当的"、"一体化的"法理学.他们批判了三大法学派的偏执与片面,主张用综合的方法研究法律,并得出了虽然各具特色,但都试图融三大法学为一体的"综合"的法的概念.在资本主义国家仍然存在政治、经济和意识形态冲突的情况下,想在综合法学这一不封闭的容器中把三大法学全部装进去多少带有一些理想的色彩.     

中华民族共同体与“新的历史性共同体”的比较研究

中华民族共同体是中华民族多元一体格局的发展结果,是新时代中国共产党开展民族工作和制定民族政策的理论基点;“新的历史性共同体”则是苏联对当时社会发展阶段和民族状况的过高估计。将这两种共同体形式进行比较研究,寻找二者之间的本质区别与内涵差异,有助于在实现中华民族伟大复兴过程中吸取历史经验教训,尊重人类社会与民族发展规律,铸牢中华民族共同体意识,共建人类命运共同体。