Representative misconduct,voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal

This paper examines electoral accountability after the 2009–10 UK expenses scandal. Existing research shows that Members of Parliament (MPs) implicated in the scandal fared only marginally worse in the election than non-implicated colleagues. This lack of electoral accountability for misconduct could have arisen either because voters did not know about their representative's wrongdoing or because they chose not to electorally sanction them. We combine panel survey data with new measures of MP implication in the expenses scandal to test where electoral accountability failed. We find that MP implication influenced voter perceptions of wrongdoing more than expected. In contrast, constituents were only marginally less likely to vote for MPs who were implicated in the scandal. Electoral accountability may therefore be constrained even when information about representative misconduct is easily available and clearly influences voter perceptions.     

德国现代化研究

德国的现代化发展模式与道路体现出了德国的特色文化,这是德国在谋求国家统一和富强的过程中所探求的一条独具特色的发展之路。2015年是世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年的特殊时节,本文试图从德国现代化的角度出发来进一步阐释德国模式。希望能够对我国的现代化发展起到一定的促进作用。     

How Large‐Scale Research Facilities Connect to Global Research

Policies for large‐scale research facilities (LSRFs) often highlight their spillovers to industrial innovation and their contribution to the external connectivity of the regional innovation system hosting them. Arguably, the particular institutional features of LSRFs are conducive for collaborative research. However, based on data on publications produced in 2006–2009 at the Neutron Science Directorate of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee (United States), we find that internationalization of its collaborative research is restrained by coordination costs similar to those characterizing other institutional settings. Policies mandating LSRFs should consider that research prioritized on the basis of technological relevance limits the international reach of collaborations. Additionally, the propensity for international collaboration is lower for resident scientists than for those affiliated with domestic universities or government laboratories. Policies conceiving LSRFs as “knowledge attractors” therefore should consider the complementarities between research at a LSRF and in its academic context at a regional or national level.     

中国马克思主义研究基金会简介

中国马克思主义研究基金会是上世纪90年代初由中共中央党校发起．于1992年报中国人民银行批准、民政部注册登记成立的非营利性公益组织。2005年,基金会经民政部批准,获基金会法人登记．类型为公募．起始基金数为八百万元人民币。     

新疆题材电影民族化研究

新疆作为一个多民族聚居的地区,多民族的文化沃土为影视创作提供了丰富的素材。从建国至今新疆题材电影在创作中以本地区各民族群众的生活方式、风俗民情、文化观念及民族精神为主要内容,来实现新疆题材电影的民族化。     

Research and Welfare Reform

Social science research had an important but limited effect on welfare reform, meaning recent enactments that imposed work requirements on family welfare. Policymakers sometimes ignored findings, but the features of research also limited its influence. Most academics did not accept the conservative goals of reform, many of their predictions proved to be incorrect, and research also lacked sufficient policy content to interest government. These features reflect the recent development of the social sciences. For research to have more influence, it must become more catholic about goals and more realistic, and it must offer more governmental content. Especially, inquiry should rely less on the statistical analysis of databases and more on field observation of how poor communities live and programs operate.     

When Education Research Matters

The tangled relationship between education research and policy has received little serious scrutiny, even as paeans to “scientifically based research” and “evidence-based practice” have become a staple of education policymaking in recent years. For all the attention devoted to the 5-year-old Institute of Education Sciences, to No Child Left Behind’s call for “scientifically based research,” to professional interest in data-driven decision-making, and to the refinement of sophisticated analytic tools, little effort has gone into understanding how, when, or why research affects education policy. Instead, most discussion has focused on how to identify “best practices” or “scientifically based” methods and how to encourage classroom educators to use research findings. In this article, based on the new volume, When Research Matters: How Scholarship Influences Education Policy, Frederick M. Hess examines these questions.

Research on immigrant earnings

As the first in a trio of pieces devoted to incorporating immigration into policy models, this review of research on immigrant earnings trajectories brings to light several findings. Controlling for demographic and human capital characteristics, immigrants often start their U.S. lives at substantially lower earnings, but experience faster earnings growth than natives with comparable years of education and experience. The extent to which the earnings trajectories of immigrants and natives differ varies by country of origin, with the source-country's level of economic development being a key determinant of the size of the U.S.-born/ foreign-born difference. The earnings profiles of immigrants from economically developed countries such as Japan, Canada, or Western Europe resemble those of U.S. natives who are of the same age and education level. In contrast, the earnings of immigrants from developing nations tend to start well below those of U.S. natives with comparable education levels and experience, but rise more rapidly than their U.S. counterparts. Comparing the earnings profiles of immigrants of similar age, sex, and years of schooling, over time and across groups, a strong inverse relationship emerges between their initial earnings and their subsequent U.S. earnings growth. In other words, the lower (higher) the initial earnings are, the higher (lower) the earnings growth. These and other research results have important implications for the projection of immigrant earnings and emigration in microsimulation models, as discussed in the two articles following this one: (1) "Adding Immigrants to Microsimulation Models" and (2) "Incorporating Immigrant Flows into Microsimulation Models".     

马克思思想精神之源再探索

马克思的三大理论发端于其早期思想,马克思的早期理论的演变是一个理论目标、方法论、实现工具和假说四子系统的演变与相互和谐的过程.据此文章分析了马克思在1836～1837年、博士论文期间、<莱茵报>时期的思想演变过程.     

中国马克思主义研究基金会简介

<正>中国马克思主义研究基金会是上世纪90年代初由中共中央党校发起,于1992年报中国人民银行批准、民政部注册登记成立的非营利性公益组织。2005年,基金会经民政部批准,获基金会法人登记,类型为公募,起始基金数为八百万元人民币。     

中国马克思主义研究基金会简介

中国马克思主义研究基金会是上世纪90年代初由中共中央党校发起,于1992年报中国人民银行批准、民政部注册登记成立的非营利性公益组织。2005年,基金会经民政部批准,获基金会法人登记,类型为公募．起始基金数为八百万元人民币。