Privatizing public enterprises in Taiwan's government-owned banks

The primary purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the implementation effectiveness of Taiwan's policy to privatize its government-owned banks. The study finds that ideological and sociocultural factors are basically supportive and stable in the privatization process. Nevertheless, institutional, leadership, administrative, and political variables have become major problems that hamper the implementation of Taiwan's policy to privatize its government-owned banks.     

Environmental dimensions of managing public budgets and public enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa

This study examines the nature of the environment in which public budgets and public enterprises are managed in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It develops a model of the environmental dimensions in the general environment and dimensional components in the task environment of public budgeting and public enterprise management including the economic, political, socio-cultural, and technological dimension which determine public budget and public enterprise management in developing countries like those in Sub-Saharan Africa. The implications of those environmental dimensions and their components are evaluated for budgetary processes and budgetary outcomes in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. The impact of economic dimensions in inducing repetitive budgeting in the budgetary processes of developing countries was highlighted. The results of the analysis of expenditure patterns in these countries tend to support the greater strength of the economic functional dimension in influencing budgetary outcomes. The implications of the environmental dimensions of the model for the management of public enterprises was also investigated. Numerous dimensional components of the major dimensions of the model developed in the study were found to have had an impact on the development of the public enterprise sector in developing countries like those in Sub- Saharan Africa. Moreover, the performance of public enterprises was strongly linked to the dimensions and components of the model. The interactive effects of public enterprise management on public budgeting in developing countries is also addressed as a consequence of the environmental model. Reform efforts must contend with altering the environmental state depicted in the model or accommodating to it.     

俄罗斯政党政治发展的另类视角——从社会政治心态的角度分析

俄罗斯政党改革密切民众与政治的关联度从苏联解体至今,政党在俄罗斯政治舞台上已走过了近20年历程,其发展基本脉络也比较清晰。经过分权斗争、三次总统选举和四次杜马选举,俄罗斯的多党制经历了从混乱无序状态逐渐走向规范化和法制化的过程。进入新世纪,政党逐步被纳入了国家的宪政体制,形成了俄罗斯共产党、统一俄罗斯党、公正俄罗斯党、     

当代中国城市偏向政策的政治根源

中外学界对发展中国家现代化进程中城市偏向政策的成因有不同的解释.本文认为,当代中国城市偏向政策的形成有特殊的政治原因.在改革前的全能主义决策模型中,统治精英阶层对农民的意识形态偏见,促成了阻止农民影响国家政治决策的制度安排,为城市偏向政策的顺利实施提供了政治保障;在改革以来的分裂式权威主义模型中,中国城市偏向政策延续的动力主要不是来自普通市民对国家政治系统的压力,而是来自行政管理者阶层.中国的城市偏向政策将在城市-官僚主导的改革进程中,随着普通市民社会福利水平的相对下降而逐渐消失.     

Corporeal Choreographies between Politics and the Political: Failed Asylum Seekers Moving from Body Politics to Bodyspaces

Corporeal choreography can capture the kind of political agency needed for a transformative politics to emerge. Interviews with failed asylum seekers exemplify negotiations and articulations of agency through movements in a bodyspace we call the interzone. In the explorations of the ways and implications of failed asylum seekers moving between body politics and the political bodyspace Jean-Luc Nancy's ideas of the ontological body, politics and the political are utilized. We suggest that by paying attention to bodies and their movement in living everyday life as failed asylees the spatial gaps and openings can be scrutinized and the functioning of asylum politics as usual disrupted.     

Women's Participation and Representation in Politics: Perspectives from Ghana

This article discusses empirical findings on issues affecting women's effective participation in politics and the public sector of Ghana. It argues that women's involvement in public life and politics has steadily declined contrary to hopeful reportage that global empowerment campaigns have increased women's political participation across Africa. The article suggests that given the deep-rooted socio-cultural hindrances women face, affirmative action policies need to be revisited to complement women's agency in contesting for, winning, and participating in politics and public service more effectively.     

Trends in teaching public administration: a view from the proceedings of the national conferences on teaching public administration

This article identifies trends in research on teaching public administration. Topics receiving substantial amounts of attention within years, within multiple years, and across time are identified. Cumulation of research on certain topics is identified. This study is based on data from the Proceedings of the National Conferences on Teaching Public Administration between 1978 and 1989.     

论政治学的“科学性”问题——对亚里士多德政治学的一个研究

亚里士多德虽然把政治学列为"科学"之一,但其"实践科学"的特性,使之对个别性、偶然性保留了更为开放的态度,并且把超越理性的慎思明断作为政治教育的终极目标。在亚里士多德的意义上说,近代以来政治学的"科学化"实际上是一种使其"形而上学"化的历程,它在追求普遍性和确定性的同时,极大地限制了政治学的视野;在使政治学技术化的同时,忽略了政治智慧的意义。要克服当下政治学研究中的缺欠,就有必要在某种意义上回归到亚里士多德。     

美国利益集团政治与对华贸易政策

像其他外交政策一样,美国对华贸易政策建立在国家利益基础之上。那么,什么是美国的国家利益？美国资本主义多元民主政治,美国社会各阶层、各种政治、经济、文化利益集团的政治博弈又是如何在美国的对华贸易政策中表现出来的呢？     

Roward a public philosophy of public administration: a civic perspective of the public

The thesis of this article is that a publicphilosophy of public administration needs to be formulated. It must not be based upon romantic and technocratic approaches as past efforts have been. It must rest instead upon a revitalized concept of the public that stresses the importance of public interdependency, public learning, public language, and a critical evaluation of the relationship between the role of the state and public administration. This emphasis has important implications for the respective responsibilities of both academicians and practicing administrators.     

从国际政治学角度解析中国和平发展的条件

自改革开放以来,中国不断融入国际体系,通过和平发展,实现了自身的成长壮大,而中国的发展也创造了国际体系和平变革的主观动机和客观条件。中国之所以能实现和     

The emergence of new technology enterprises in China: A study of endogenous capability building via restructuring

This article examines the emergence of a vital non‐state sector, consisting of New Technology Enterprises (NTEs) spun off from existing R&D institutions during the economic reforms in China. Most NTEs are engaged in computer and information technology. Based on an outline of the development of the NTEs, this article focuses on an analysis of a few critical aspects of the restructuring process through which the NTEs gained entry to a sphere of innovative economic activity. The analysis shows that, while the newly emerged NTEs have to have international levels of competitiveness, the restructuring process has been highly specific to the local society. The article concludes by stressing the critical importance of the organisational innovation of the economic actors and the creation of institutions to support creative economic activities, if developing countries are to cope with the pressing trends of rapid technological progress and economic globalisation.