Censorship,the Media,and the Market in China

Journal of Chinese Political Science - Pervasive media censorship in China is often seen as a strictly political issue. Although in past years reporters have had leeway to report on economic...     

从《共产党宣言》的发展理论认识马克思主义中国化

作者从共产党宣言发展理论的角度,详尽阐述了马克思主义历史唯物观的巨大指导作用,指明了马克思主义中国化会使中国的发展焕然一新,对于中华民族的伟大复兴具有深远的历史意义和重大的现实意义。     

Understanding Public Support for British Membership of the Single Currency

There has been much public debate about whether a referendum on British membership of the European single currency could be won despite opinion polls showing a widening gap between those opposed to membership and those in favour. However, academic research provides little insight into why British attitudes towards the Euro vary at an individual level, and hence what factors might be crucial in a referendum campaign. Existing studies suggest, among other things, that British political parties can shape voters' preferences on important public policy issues. We explore this and other explanations using data from recent Eurobarometer and British Elections Study surveys. We find that general evaluations of the EU, British national identity and concerns over the democratic character of EU governance are stronger predictors of support for the single currency than which party a person supports. However, we also find that the influence of these factors varies with a citizen's level of information about the Euro, which suggests that the supply and use of information might be crucial in a referendum campaign.     

我国区域公共管理理论分析

目前,我国在区域公共管理的研究上有几个问题必须要解决:区域公共管理与区域行政有没有区别?如果有,什么是区域公共管理?为什么区域行政会向区域公共管理发展?区域行政就是在一个区域内的政府(两个或两个以上),为了促进区域的发展而相互协调关系,寻求合作,对公共事务进行综合治理,以便实现社会资源的合理配置与利用,提供更优质的公共服务。而区域公共管理是区域内的多元主体为了解决在政治、经济或社会其它领域的一面或多面的公共问题,实现共同利益,运用协商和调解的手段和方式对区域以及区域内横向部分和纵向层级之间交叉重叠关系进行的管理。     

保罗·赫斯特对马克思历史过渡理论的理解探微

保罗·赫斯特的社会形态过渡理论是他在讨论英美马克思主义社会形态过渡理论基础上,深入思考不同社会形态过渡问题而形成的理论研究成果.该理论指出,不同生产方式之间的过渡、各种社会形态之间的演变,不是具有前后承继关系的矛盾运动的结果,而是一种断裂关系.这个理论虽然看似丰富了马克思的社会历史理论,但更具有反历史主义倾向,饱含着浓厚的结构主义色彩,其实是对马克思历史过渡理论的误读.     

青少年消费者民族中心主义对购物意愿影响的实证研究——对理性行为理论的拓展

在经济全球化的今天,我国青少年在购物时是否受到民族中心主义的影响,这种影响的程度如何,对于本土企业的未来发展具有重要的实践意义。本研究以理性行为理论为基础探讨青少年消费者民族中心主义对购物意愿的影响。结果表明加入消费者民族中心主义(CET)是对理性行为模型的有效的拓展。我国青少年消费者民族中心主义的得分总体偏低。CET对购买国产品牌意愿有显著正向影响,对购买国外品牌意愿有显著负向影响。     

Business as a Collaborative Partner: Understanding Firms’ Sociopolitical Support for Policy Formation

While many scholars have discussed the merits of collaborative governance, especially for addressing complicated modern policy challenges, the literature has paid less attention to how business can serve as an effective collaborative partner during the formation of mandatory policies and regulations. Drawing on scholarship in the management sciences and combining it with literature in public administration and public policy, the authors elaborate on four distinct types of business responses to proposed regulations based on degrees of political activity and social responsiveness: defensive, reactive, proactive, and anticipatory. They then characterize the reasons why proactive firms are more likely to be valuable collaborative partners with policy makers and public managers: their engagement may avoid costly stalemates that frequently hinder policy making and help develop cost‐effective, flexible policy approaches to complex social problems.     

Political Support for Decentralization: An Analysis of the Colombian and Venezuelan Legislatures

A worldwide trend of decentralizing political power, fiscal authority, and the responsibility for providing services to subnational governments has been especially evident in Latin America over the past decade. This article focuses on variation in intracountry support for decentralization, using data on bill initiation from Colombia and Venezuela to determine the domestic sources of this policy. While the data support prior findings that decentralization is supported by parties whose future electoral prospects are better at the subnational level, the analysis also shows that citizen's trust in government and greater wealth affect a deputies' support for decentralization .     

全面理解顶层设计:一个整合诠释框架

改革的顶层设计是近年来学术研究的重要主题,学界就其内涵和构成要素达成一些共识,也存在不同的理解和争论。这些共识和争论都围绕特定方面或视角展开,尚未形成一个整合框架。基于现有文献,总结并阐述顶层设计的两点核心内涵:一是改革的整体性即全方位系统筹划;二是直面根本矛盾敢于碰硬和突破。针对相关争论,提出顶层设计应具有两个外在形式表征:一是主体视角的"相对顶层观";二是时间维度的"共时性"和"事前"。四个要素有机结合,才能构成对顶层设计概念的完整诠释。     

Supreme Court Legitimacy and Group-Centric Forces: Black Support for Capital Punishment and Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court has addressed capital punishment and affirmative action many times and, as a result, has had sweeping policymaking effects. For that reason, we argue that black opinion on capital punishment and affirmative action will be shaped by diffuse support for the Court. We also recognize the important role of group-centric forces in shaping black opinion. We find that diffuse support for the Court leads blacks with lower levels of race consciousness to be more supportive of capital punishment and less supportive of affirmative action, positions in line with the Court's decisions on these issues but contrary to black interests. The Court, however, is not able to throw its cloak of legitimacy around its policy position for blacks with the highest levels of group consciousness.     

New Technologies in the Politics Classroom: Using Internet Classrooms to Support Teaching and Learning

This article introduces some ideas about using internet classrooms to enrich the experience of those learning and teaching politics. It draws and reflects upon my three-year experience of using internet classrooms to teach politics in optional and compulsory politics undergraduate modules, providing critical evaluation of the successes and problems involved. Much of what the article discusses can be applied to most, if not all, politics modules and will be useful to those wishing to use new technologies to support active learning strategies in their undergraduate teaching. The article is based on personal experience and student evaluations, rather than any rigorous research of learning outcomes. As such, I do not set out to prove that using internet classrooms has pedagogical advantages over using only traditional methods, and I am not arguing a case for or against using either.     

Understanding Urban Governmental Structures: An Analysis Controlling for the Influence of State Law

The question of what leads to the adoption of particular urbangovernmental structures has not been fully answered. Researchon this question has neglected the importance of state influences.This article examines the impact of several independent variableson urban structure, but unlike previous research, state influenceis controlled. The age of a city emerges as a major explanatoryvariable. This is important because age may encompass "sharedexperiences" with governmental structures resulting from statemandates pertaining to non-home-rule cities. State requirementspertaining to non-home-rule cities seem to predispose citiestoward certain structural arrangements even after they gainhome rule status.     

The Internet in China: New Methods and Opportunities

Journal of Chinese Political Science - This essay reviews methodological advances in Internet studies in Chinese politics. First, automated text analysis reduces the time and cost of examining...     

Common Ground for Action Software and Professional Development to Support Online Deliberation in Classrooms

The Common Ground for Action (CGA) online deliberation platform is a dynamic tool designed to encourage diverse group members to identify collective responses to deeply controversial or “wicked” public problems that have no simple solution. The program promotes authentic deliberation, while minimizing the tactics of horse-trading and negotiating. We detail the structure of the CGA platform, including how deliberative talk is encouraged, outline a sample assignment that can be used with CGA, and professional training offered to faculty and Teaching Assistants.     

Understanding Public Sector Ethics: Beyond Agency Theory in Canada's Sponsorship Scandal

ABSTRACT

Public sector ethics is a topic of ongoing concern in developed democracies. The most popular theoretical approach to this issue is found in principal–agent theory literature. This approach assumes that public sector organizations are populated by principals and agents, each of whom pursue their own self-interest, with agents having a persistent informational advantage. A second approach to ethical conflicts focuses on cognitive processes. According to cognitive theory, all decision makers are vulnerable to “ethical numbing,” particularly in organizational settings that condone the substitution of personal agendas for organizational goals. We argue that Canada's sponsorship scandal has been interpreted almost exclusively from a principal–agent perspective, with subsequent reforms firmly based on introducing new rules to oblige agents to advance the interests of principals. While more faithful adherence to established rules by agents would have avoided a scandal, such adherence is unlikely to be achieved through incentives, monitoring, and penalties as suggested by principal–agent theory. The policy message contained in and implied by the cognitive framework suggests that the focus must be on creating an organizational learning environment that discourages responsible public officials from reframing decision situations in a manner that allows them to become morally disengaged.     

An ideology of rights: Support for civil liberties among political activists

This paper examines support for civil liberties among a large and diverse set of political activists during the Reagan era: financial donors to party and political action committees (PACs). While these activists are more tolerant than the mass public, support for civil liberties is not evenly distributed among them. Liberals and Democrats are far more tolerant than their conservative and Republican counterparts. Tolerance is related to support for substantive rights and rooted in cosmopolitan demography, and it is not linked to greater political or social participation. Thus, among political activists, tolerance is associated with broader political alignments and not elite statusper se.     

国家与社会的互动界面:行动语境中的基层概念及其理解

理解“基层”,是科学展开基层治理的观念前提。从静态的结构语境来认知“基层”,偏离了这一概念的反身性特征。基层概念的行动语境,是国家与社会的互动。行动语境中基层概念的语义,是国家与社会的互动界面：界面主体是既需要“对上负责”又需要“对下负责”的基层干部;界面实体是兼具政治属性与社会属性、效率性治理需求与多元渐进演变特征的公共事务;界面载体是兼具国家建构性与社会进化性的规则。从国家与社会互动界面来理解基层概念,为科学认知基层干部、基层事务、基层规则,提供了方法论启示。理解基层主体、载体与实体的有机联系,需要从行动统合的视角来理解基层治理,以基层党建引领基层治理现代化。     

Audit for Accountability in China: An Incomplete Mission

This article argues against the conventional wisdom that accountability is the raison d'être of auditing activities. Audit, admittedly, is a part of the accountability architecture as it contributes to the financial health of a government and the effective management of public money. This does not mean, however, that audit necessarily generates accountability. China's experience with establishing a power audit regime shows that without enabling goals, impartial structural arrangements, and effective procedures, auditing for accountability only remains an incomplete mission.     

私有化前景:公共选择理论视角

美国<公共行政评论>曾经刊登米勒和金合写的一篇文章,作者指出,"从事实际工作的人经常需要预测潜在行动的后果"(Miller和King,1998).在实施私有化的过程中,这一点尤其富有指导意义.目前这一范式正在席卷整个世界.理智基金会(Reason Foundation)的<私有化:1991年报告>列出了64个国家的"私有化计划"与"私有化趋势".<公共行政评论>曾经刊登了3份有关美国政府私有化的报告(Chi,1998).其中的一份报告指出,美国50个州的15家不同机构都表明,它们大幅增加了私有化的活动.