From Policy to Practice: From Ideas to Results,From Results to Trust

Few areas of public administration have been more discouraging, over a longer period of time, than the struggle to build public trust in government's work. However, new research suggests that public administrators can build trust by improving the results they produce for citizens. Practical, practicable steps can produce big improvements: improving government's focus on citizens' needs; engaging employees; focusing on fairness; and, especially, concentrating on the delivery of public services at the “retail” level. Citizens, research shows, can discriminate among levels of government, the administration of different programs in different functional areas, and the work of individual administrators. That provides strong hope for improving trust, in an era when too often government appears too untrustworthy.     

From Imperium to Internet: the National Alliance and the American extreme right

Led by William Pierce, a former officer in the National Socialist White People's Party, America's National Alliance has achieved particular notoriety as a result of Pierce's authoring of a genocidal political thriller called The Turner Diaries. Pierce argues, both in his fiction and elsewhere, for the recruitment of an elite that will one day lead to an armed struggle against The System. The argument of others on the extreme right in the United States, however, that only individuals or at most small cells can successfully overthrow the state represents a grave challenge to the Alliance's groupuscular logic.     

如何认识“中国特色社会主义”——重温邓小平论述引发的几点思考

邓小平是有中国特色社会主义概念的发明人,对此做了很多具体论述。但是,他没给中国特色社会主义下明确定义,相反还强调,过去我们对什么是社会主义这个问题的认识不是完全的清醒。中国特色社会主义建设既不能照抄经典,也不能照搬别国模式,需要当代中国人在实践中探索解决。现今,重温邓小平论述的启发是:只有在中国特色社会主义与马克思恩格斯设想的社会主义、苏联模式社会主义、资本主义以及与民主社会主义等各种关系中,充分认识其异同,才能对中国特色社会主义给出比较恰当合理的定位,从而引导中国持续、快速、协调、健康地发展。     

混合经济:民主社会主义的实践与中国特色社会主义的超越

民主社会主义建立的混合经济模式致力于克服资本主义市场经济的弊端,在资本主义私有制上加入更多的公有制成分,在分配方式上更重视按劳分配和社会福利,在市场机制中强调计划调节。我国混合所有制经济的起点和主体都是公有制经济,这同民主社会主义的混合经济有本质不同,但我们可以借鉴民主社会主义在这方面的成功经验,在高起点和高目标上实现对民主社会主义混合经济模式的超越。     

从工具主义到人本主义:国家治理理念的现代化重塑

现代国家治理理念是国家治理现代化的科学遵循,影响和支配国家治理主体间的政治行为。传统工具主义与现代国家治理存在冲突,迫切需要作出转型,转型的方向即人本主义。人本主义弥补了工具主义的缺陷,是国家治理理念现代化转变的最佳选择。为了进一步实现人本主义对工具主义的超越,需要以政治伦理的规范优化治理价值观、以多重权力的博弈优化治理权力观、以制度价值的彰显优化治理发展观,建构以人民为中心的中国治理话语体系。     

From 'Fightback' to 'Biteback': The Rise and Fall of a National Dental Program

This paper presents a case study of policy introduction, implementation and termination. It demonstrates how the coupling of a well-defined problem with a workable solution by advocates can generate policy change, even in an area where there has previously been scant governmental interest. It also reveals that increased public funding associated with policy implementation can provide administrators with the legitimacy and authority to advance reform. Finally, this case study indicates the fragility of policies which: have short histories of governmental attention and financing; cross major party political differences towards federalism and Commonwealth/state responsibilities; and solely benefit repressed interests.     

Introduction to Lavigne: Money and Socialism

In a continuation of his earlier work on the history and structure of psychiatry and psychoanalysis Bercherie examines Frued's views on epistemology and then identifies the presence of four metapsychological models in his writings. The models are then related to the four major currents in post-Freudian psychoanalysis: Kleinian analysis, ego-psychology, Lacanianism and the more diffuse ‘marginal’ current. He ends by expressing the hope that the prevailing climate of theoretical dogmatism will give way to a new spirit of synthesis and tolerance which will lead to major developments in both the theory and the practice of psychoanalysis.     

Introduction to the Symposium: Socialism and Ecology

Okay if you are worried about the greenhouse effect, if you want us to be responsible corporate citizens of the world, you must also understand we are a Third World nation and need the money. Give us 200 million PGK a year for our budget and you can be in charge of our forests.     

毛泽东:探索中国特色社会主义的先驱

毛泽东在探索中国特色社会主义道路的过程中,形成了自己的社会主义思想,又发生了严重的失误,给后人留下许多思考与启示.毛泽东是探索中国特色社会主义的先驱,功不可没.     

From Multiculturalism to Cultural Voluntarism: A Family‐based Approach

In the context of the current debate on multiculturalism, this article draws on three models of state policies towards families to propose a reframing of multiculturalist policies. They are the ‘authorisation’ model, wherein the state authorises families to define and enforce family obligations as law; the ‘delegation’ model, wherein the state prescribes the norms families are to follow and delegates to families the role of enforcing them; and the ‘purposive abstention’ model, wherein the state uses the voluntary performance family norms as a tool of policy, giving them limited legal recognition within the continued application of the general law. The article considers how these models might guide policy towards communities, which can be seen, substantially, as collections of families. It favours the ‘purposive abstention’ model, which, in the context of cultural groups, could be termed ‘cultural voluntarism’.     

中国特色社会主义概念解析

中国特色社会主义是我们党深刻总结100多年来国际工人运动和共产主义运动历史经验,紧密结合中国革命和建设实际,经90多年的反复探索和实践逐渐形成的具有鲜明中国特色和民族风格的社会主义。通过对中国特色社会主义发展历史的回顾,概括了中国特色社会主义本质内涵,明确了中国特色社会主义的价值意义。     

中国特色社会主义理论体系教学原则探析

随着党的理论创新和实践创新不断发展,对中国特色社会主义理论体系课程教学提出了更高的要求。如何加强对中国特色社会主义理论体系的宣传和教育,具有重要的现实意义。从"应按把握理论武装、着眼现实问题、改进教学方法"这三条原则,对提升中国特色社会主义理论体系的教学水平进行了相关阐述。