两络问政：本质、意义及实现途径

网络问政本质上是公众通过网络表达诉求、实现参政议政的新型民主形式。建立和发展网络问政制度，对于提高信息化条件下党的执政能力、创建人民满意的的服务型政府、构建社会主义和谐社会具有重要战略意义。网络问政现象流行警示我们既有的人民群众利益表达和聚合机制功能发挥不足或严重弱化，必须进一步通过深化政治民主体制、社会管理体制改革，切实创造条件让人民安全地批评和监督政府。网络问政要取得实效必须与现有的政治制度、法律制度、政治组织形式运作紧密结合起来。     

马克思哲学的解放话语

马克思哲学以"本体论承诺"的形式标示了关于人的解放的理论宗旨。通过理论批判与实践批判,马克思哲学的解放话语及其实践路径真实地呈现了出来。而中国特色社会理论体系正是对马克思哲学解放话语的继承与创新。     

论思辨辩证法的称谓、对象、动力和开端问题

按照黑格尔自身的逻辑,思辩辩证法是比辩证法更合理的称谓,称谓的改变意味着对黑格尔哲学精神理解的改变。思辨辩证法认为哲学的对象和宗教的对象是同一个对象,即绝对精神的自身演化和自我实现的运动,这种运动以精神的自我相关和自我否定的本性为动力,因而它的开端和终点都是一种中介化了的自我圆圈。     

中国特色社会主义政治发展的本质特征和政治体制改革的现实任务

在我国现阶段,深化政治体制改革,要同中国特色社会主义政治发展的本质特征和科学内涵相吻合.中国特色社会主义政治发展的本质特征:即,共产党领导是前提,人民当家做主是基础,依法治国是保障,以人为本是主线.其本质特征也决定了这一新型民主政治发展具有丰富的科学内涵,可以概括为"四大民主",即:以选举民主为主要标志的人民代表大会制度,以协商民主为主要标志的政治协商制度,以直接民主为主要标志的群众自治制度和以党内民主为主要标志的政党政治制度.政治体制改革的现实任务是:以扩大执政党党内民主为目标,进一步深化党的领导体制、执政方式、组织制度和干部制度改革;以建设服务型公共政府为目标,进一步深化行政管理体制改革;以坚决抑制和清除权力腐败现象为目标,进一步深化权力运行体制改革;以丰富民主形式、发展政治参与为目标,进一步深化政治运行机制改革;以规范社会成员政治行为,促进人的全面发展为目标,进一步改造小生产社会政治心理.     

Capitalism,Markets and Politics

The term ‘capitalism’ is no longer a relevant way in which to describe or to understand a modern economy. Ownership of capital is not the source of economic power that it once was. Business leaders of today do not own the factories and the machines, nor do they need to. Let us consider instead, markets. Not the markets for financial products that we see depicted on rows of flickering screens in Canary Wharf, but real markets. Market economies have proved to be chaotic, and imperfect and yet they are the most successful way we know to allocate goods and services. Through a process of experimentation, much failure and some success they evolve. Their development is necessarily uncertain, but that is also their greatest strength.     

Politics Lost, Politics Transformed, Politics Colonised? Theories of the Impact of Mass Media

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the literature on the relationship between politics and mass media, mainly in discrete topic areas such as the impact of mass media on electoral behaviour, the emergence of new forms of political communication, or media political economy. At the same time, this diverse literature has often focused on a single general issue, typically characterised in terms of the 'transformation' of politics. Despite this common theme, there has been relatively little attempt to connect and compare the different approaches. Looking at the theoretical differences in the new literature on politics and mass media reveals three perspectives – pluralist, constructivist, and structuralist. These approaches have too often tacitly co-existed, instead of more competitively striving to advance knowledge in the three main topic areas above.     

Buddhism,Mindfulness, and Transformative Politics

This article examines whether the American cultural phenomena of the practice of Buddhism or the Buddhism-derived technique of mindfulness are likely to be helpful to the political left. It summarizes the central teachings of the ancient Buddhist texts, with particular focus on the issues of mindfulness and politics. It also reviews the political history of Buddhist countries. The author argues that although modern Buddhism has shed its historical embrace of absolutist monarchy in favor of republicanism, and although there is some ideological overlap between Buddhism and the American Left, Buddhism in America is too small a movement for it to be of much significance for progressive politics. Mindfulness appears to be capable of becoming a much larger phenomenon, but its separation from its Buddhist origins makes it also unlikely to be strategically important for the Left.