论中国行政立法程序的蜕变

自2004年《立法法》颁布以来,我国的行政立法程序有了一个比较大的变迁。行政立法从规划本位转变到立项本位,起草从内部协调为主到法治、民主和效能的综合考量,草案审查的法治化和行政法规规章解释制度的改革等都体现了我国行政立法程序已经进入一个新的历史阶段。     

The Decline of Bigotry in America

Though prejudice and discrimination exist in America, it has been steadily declining and measurably so. From our very beginnings, there has been a diversity, accretion, succession, and simultaneity of racial, religious, ethnic, and gender victims and victimizers. Fortunately, there has also been a process of meliorism, epitomized by the presidential election of a black American of mixed racial parents—Barack Hussein Obama. Regardless of their group identity, today’s generation of Americans has less victims or victimizers and has more social, political, and economic opportunities than their parents. grandparents, and predecessors had.     

论学校教育场域下良好师生关系的建构

布迪厄提出了“场域”的范畴，并广泛运用于社会学领域中，也体现在学校教育过程中。了解学校教育场域下师生关系的矛盾与冲突，对于建构和谐、融洽的良好师生关系有着指导意义。     

信息技术与行政体制扁平化

人类进入信息社会,环境变得更为多样化和复杂化,社会要求政府的管理和服务更加多元化和个性化,科层组织结构日益暴露出自身的弱点。网络与信息技术的发展,大大提高了交易效率和组织效率,促成了沟通高效平台化和决策过程透明化,推动行政组织结构的扁平化,传统行政体制面临着结构性重组。     

浅谈新农村建设背景下如何做好乡镇基层党务公开工作

党务公开,就是指党的工作和活动,在条件许可的情况下,具有或应该具有公开性,而不再具有或不应该具有秘密性。近年来,随着我国民主的不断发展,党务公开思想已逐步为各级领导接受和重视,各地也相继进行了一些有益探索,但总体而言,实行党务公开时间还不长,如何加以规范和实施科学引导,成为推进乡镇基层党务公开必须着力解决的一个热点。     

Old and New Labour Narratives of Whitehall: Radicals,Reactionaries and Defenders of the Westminster Model

This article argues that throughout its history, the leadership of the Labour Party has chosen to embrace a benign view of the Civil Service, as part of a wider acceptance of the constitutional status quo reflected in the Westminster model. There has nevertheless been a long tradition in the wider Labour movement that has questioned whether Whitehall is capable of working for a government with radical aspirations. This article examines Labour's historical approach towards Whitehall, before reflecting on the extent to which the present Administration, while appealing to radical and reforming rhetoric has, like its predecessors, continued to embrace the status quo. It concludes by arguing that a contemporary and credible narrative capable of challenging the Westminster model has yet to emerge from the broader movement.     

性别失衡背景下中国农村人口的婚姻策略与婚姻质量——对X市和全国百村调查的分析

本文利用2009年X市农村流动人口调查和2010年全国百村调查数据,从性别、出生队列、人口流动与区域视角综合分析性别失衡下农村人口的婚姻策略和婚姻质量状况。分析发现,男性婚姻挤压对农村人口婚姻策略的影响初露端倪,明显降低了婚姻质量,城乡人口流动对农村人口婚姻的正负影响相互交织,男性婚姻挤压对婚姻影响的地区差异逐步加大。     

未决羁押制度的比较分析

英、美、法、意、日等国家的未决羁押制度融入了法治的理性,未决羁押基本上已经成为一种制度化的刑事诉讼强制措施,并在程序与实体上均由法律加以控制,从而较大程度地防止了对羁押权的滥用,对被羁押人的人身自由等合法权利给予了较为充分的保障。相比之下,中国的未决羁押制度已经越来越凸现出诸多的根本性缺陷,制度的借鉴与重构成为司法改革之亟需。     

浅谈邓小平的文化建设思想

知识经济时代,文化和经济、政治相互融合日益加深,文化的力量已经渗透到生活的方方面面。文化不但推动着文明的进步．而且直接推动了社会物质财富的增加。文化在经济领域里已经成为一个新的经济增长点。因此．认清邓小平有关文化方面的理论思想,对新时期我们进行社会主义的文化建设有十分重要的意义。     

Small-scale administration in St Martin: Two governments of one people

Divided between France and Holland since 1648, the small island community of St Martin has grown and prospered in recent decades largely because of tourism. France which incorporates its part, Saint Martin, as a municipality in the Department of Guadeloupe has been generous with public funds and tax concessions to those who invest in the dependency. The Kingdom of the Netherlands, the governments of its constituent parts (Holland and the Netherlands Antilles), has been more generous with authority than with money. So Dutch Sint Maarten has enjoyed much greater political and administrative autonomy than its northern neighbour, but it has to depend on investment from private interests, American and European. Indeed, it has lacked sufficient public capital even for infrastructure and social services, including education. The governments of both sides have neglected joint planning and other coordinated efforts to develop the island. The Dutch side has been committed to laissez-faire private enterprise and so personnel development in the public service has been minimal. This has disposed the government of the French side to limit joint ventures with the Dutch government. The population is large enough and the revenues are high enough to provide adequate numbers of public officials, but tourism has attracted, in the 1970s and 80s, many of the more able and ambitious. These considerations set the two sides of St Martin apart from other West Indian micro-states, most of which have not experienced as much success in developing and maintaining tourism. St Martin is unique in another way. It is different from other English-speaking islands because of its French and Dutch institutions. It is quite different from other French and Dutch islands (Saba and St Eustatius excepted) because of the English language and other cultural influences.     

邓小平两个飞跃理论的实践与探索——发展多种形式的土地规模经营

经过30年的改革开放，土地家庭承包经营制度已经成为中国农业发展的制约因素，而按照邓小平关于中国农业发展两个飞跃的理论，第一个飞跃的实践已经完成，实现第二个飞跃的时机已经成熟。适就需要积极地探索发展土地规模经营的现实途径。     

微博实名制之思

作为网络社会的新型信息舆论平台,可以说近年来微博在众多的社会公共事件中扮演了重要的媒介角色,因此即将实行的微博实名制一经公布便引起了多方关注,这一政策的推出给微博平台带来了许多积极的影响,如更加稳定的运行环境、用户的言语自律等,同时也带来了一些无法忽视的问题。重点即在于对此政策利弊之处给予综合考量,并对实名制之后的微博管理提出合理的思考和建议。     

The unavailability of information on insurance unavailability: Insurance redlining and the absence of geocoded disclosure data

Abstract

The availability of insurance in urban communities has long been a contested public policy issue. One of the central points of contention has been the value of publicly available data on the geographic distribution of property insurance policies. This debate has intensified since the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, which requires geocoded disclosure of mortgage lending activity, was passed. A small number of states have required disclosure of limited data. But precisely what data are available has been unclear, and their utility has been debated.

This survey of all state insurance commissioners documents what is in fact the very limited availability of insurance disclosure data. Only eight states require any disclosure of geocoded data, and just four of them make company‐level data available to the public. Data from one of those states, Wisconsin, are used to show how such data could benefit insurers, consumers, and regulators.     

A Prosperity of Thought in an Age of Austerity: The Case of Ulster Loyalism

A central failing of analysis of the peace process has been to account for, explain and determine the extent of loyalist‐led conflict transformation. My argument is that, despite evident wrong‐doing, there has been a failure to appreciate the prosperity of loyalist thinking and action in the period after the paramilitary ceasefires of 1994. Loyalism has appeared less relevant than it is to peacemaking due to its criminalisation, its refusal to accept positive morphology and a failure to self‐promote. An appreciation of the positive nature of loyalist transition offers much to those who seek to comprehend the future of Northern Ireland.     

《论语》中的天道思想

"天道"是《论语》中的核心概念之一。孔子对于"天道"有着精深的认识,《论语》中"天道"与"命"有着密切的联系,《论语》中的"天道"通过"命"的方式呈现在人世,而使人能够通过命反观"天道",适应于"天道","天道"和人世通过"命"形成了一个互相关联的整体。     

The Politics of Indian Gaming: Tribe/State Relations and American Federalism

Since the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988,gambling on reservations has become a multibillion dollar industry.The act, however, has led to jurisdictional conflicts betweentribes and states. These conflicts are redefining the positionand role of Indian tribes in American federalism. As the tribeshave gained autonomy, states have lost jurisdictional powerand control. The federal government has become the arbiter inthe disputes and, as such, has continued to maintain its positionof supremacy and power over both tribes and states.     

The Impact of Sure Start

The first report from the national Sure Start evaluation team concludes that to date not only has the Sure Start programme not been a success, but for certain groups of disadvantaged families it has led to a worse outcome. The cost to date has been £3 billion.
This is simply the latest in a series of spectacular policy failures: for example, the Child Support Agency, family tax credits, truancy reduction, lack of literacy amongst many children, reductions in access to top universities from state schools.
Each has its own reasons for failure, but there are now so many examples in so many diverse areas that something more fundamental is going on. The problem is the increasingly complicated nature of the interventions of the social democratic state. These increase rather than reduce the probability of failure. Government still has an important role. But it should be as simple as possible.     

Executive Encroachments on the Independence of the Commonwealth Auditor-General

Until recently Commonwealth governments have been able to have very extensive executive intrusions in public sector audit accepted largely as benign and untainted by political interests, thereby maintaining an illusion of an unfettered, autonomous public sector audit function. An interpretation of independence has been embedded which has been at odds with the operational reality. A conditional form of independence has been promoted as substantive independence and has thereby created multiple and often conflicting beliefs about what is and what ought to be the nature of independence in public sector audit. Differences in the independence of the person of the auditor-general have been confused with the independence of the office.     

回归人的本真存在——生态美学运思方式之省思

生态美学逐步成为当代美学研究的热点之一,这实质上是"天人合一"运思方式对"主客二分"运思方式的超越。传统本体论美学之所以陷入困境,主要是由于传统"主客二分"的运思方式造成的,虽然这种思维路径在人类的历史上有其深远和积极的意义,但这种意义又是相对的。生态美学消除了人与世界的对峙,以此回归人的本真存在,从而在人与世界的和谐共处中获得自由。     

Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Design: The Case of the Danish Committee on Gender Equality

This article contributes to the literature on parliamentary design in general and the pioneer literature on parliamentary bodies specialized in gender equality in particular. It does so by establishing a frame for the critical assessment of the impacts of such an institutional design. Moreover, by using interviews and data on the behavior of committee members, it demonstrates the advantages of applying a mixed method within a field that has mostly relied on participant interviews. A systematic analysis of the impact of the Danish Committee on Gender Equality shows that although this particular committee has not succeeded in adding the perspective of gender equality to legislation, it has increased parliamentary control with the government. Furthermore, it has enabled much better interaction between parliament and civil society organizations.