构建以人为本的高校学生管理工作新思路

在社会主义市场经济条件下,必须着眼于大学生这个特定时期的“人”来研究和改革现行的学生管理工作,明确学生管理工作的目标,理清学生管理工作的思路,建立科学高效的管理机制,以开拓新时期高校学生管理工作的新局面。     

Usable information for policy: An appraisal of the U.S. Global Change Research Program

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in law in 1990 (P.L. 101–606) with a mandate to provide policymakers with usable information. The law gave a White House Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES) responsibility to implement the program with respect to its policy mandate. In 1994 CEES was replaced, in part, because it failed to provide usable information. This article, documenting the development of the program's policy mandate and CEES implementation of the USGCRP, finds a performance shortfall. The shortfall is attributed to a breakdown in the legislative process, participant perspectives, and the structure of post-World War II science policy. The purpose of the article is to explain the CEES performance shortfall in hope that its successor can improve USGCRP performance with respect to its legal mandate based upon the lessons of experience.     

The nature of knowledge about public management: Lessons for research and teaching from our knowledge about chess and warfare

Knowledge about public management is similar in form to the knowledge about chess and warfare. It consists of general information about the formal and informal rules, principles of public management, and numerous examples that illustrate when, how, and why these principles apply. A master of public management, like a master in chess, has encoded in long-term memory a large managerial repertoire: patterns of managerial situations and successful actions that can be recalled and applied to new problems. The role of research on public management is to develop these principles and patterns, to weave theminto a repertoire of managerial actions, and to illustrate all this with vivid examples so that the ideas can be taught, learned, and remembered.     

建设学习型政党的三个着力点

建设与时俱进的政党文化,建立健全学习机制和创新机制,建立灵活高效的学习型组织,是建设马克思主义学习型政党的三项重点工作。     

Party policy diffusion in the European multilevel space: what it is,how it works,and why it matters

ABSTRACT

Almost since the end of World War II, transnational cooperation among political parties has been a common feature of European politics. This paper makes the case for studying transnational partisan cooperation in the European multilevel space, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of “party policy diffusion.” At the heart of the paper is a conceptual discussion of party policy diffusion in the EU. Specifically, we look at the (1) aims that lead parties to learn from or emulate parties in other countries; (2) the mechanisms through which this may work; and (3) the wider implications of this practice both for domestic and European politics. Drawing on this conceptual discussion, the paper then goes on to offer leads as to how the phenomenon of party policy diffusion can be studied in the European multilevel space. To this end, we briefly point to possible ways of testing hypotheses about party policy diffusion using spatially explicit modeling strategies such as spatial regression models and exponential random graph models for transnational party networks.     

Corporate lobbying in Europe,managing knowledge and information strategies

• Given that knowledge and information are critical resources for acquiring access to the EU policy process, the question of this paper is how firms should manage the knowledge and information strategies surrounding their lobbying attempts. Developing an appropriate resource base is critical for firms trying to bring their interests to bear on European decision‐making. The same holds for the ability to recognize potential points of entry to the EU policy process. Next to substantial knowledge and expertise, therefore, the ability to understand policy dynamics and the appropriate timing of lobbying attempts are critically important in corporate lobbying in Europe. The implication of this argument is that managing knowledge and information strategies become increasingly important for handlings firms' public affairs.

Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Why suicide-terrorists get educated, and what to do about it

This paper tries to reconcile the observed fact that suicide-terrorists have a relatively high education level with rationality. It brings out the conditions under which potential students choose to acquire some education in a rational-choice model where this yields a non-zero probability of blowing up the resulting human capital in a terrorist attack. The comparative-statics of the rational expectations equilibrium of this model demonstrate how economic development, on the one hand, and repression, on the other hand, might reduce terrorism under some parameter restrictions.     

构建社会主义和谐社会面临的问题及对策

构建社会主义和谐社会面临诸多问题,包括社会发展相对滞后、公共资源分布不均衡、分配不公和腐败、“三农”问题、就业难、社会安全和社会保障问题等。为解决这些问题,必须处理好这样几个关系:经济与社会的关系、政府与社会的关系、民主政治建设与经济发展的关系、公平与效率的关系、发展与稳定的关系、社会各群体间的利益协调关系等。同时,还要针对存在的难点问题,提出切实有效的对策措施。     

关于构建执政党建设理论新体系的几点思考

传统的党建理论体系存在诸多缺陷,已经难以适应执政党建设实践的发展要求。因此,要以“三个代表”重要思想为指针,从“本体论”、“功能论”、“机制论”相统一的大党建视角出发,构建执政党建设理论的新体系,为搞好党的建设和党实现长期执政提供科学支持和理论依据。     

Political knowledge about electoral rules: Comparing mixed member proportional systems in Germany and New Zealand

Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral systems are considered by some to be “the best of both worlds” because they combine single member district representation with proportional outcomes. Critics, however, maintain that such systems cause voter confusion leading some voters to cast misinformed votes. Survey data from Germany and New Zealand are used to investigate voter's political knowledge of the electoral system and their voting behavior. The findings suggest that knowledge about the electoral system is similar in New Zealand and in Germany. Although some may very well find the system complex, there is no evidence to suggest that a lack of knowledge about the electoral system influences voting behavior. The results undermine the claims made by skeptics who fear that misunderstanding threatens the legitimacy of electoral outcomes.     

Handling and communicating intelligence information: a conceptual,historical and information design analysis

Effective communication of information is essential to intelligence work. This paper identifies the main obstacles to good communication: policy-related challenges; cognitive impediments; resource limitations; cultural and structural issues within intelligence communities; and technical information. To illustrate, it examines four cases when poor communication contributed to intelligence shortcomings. Via questionnaire and document survey, the study identifies the current state of practice in UK intelligence communities. The survey of visualization documents currently in use revealed errors against established principles of Information Design. Thus, to ensure better handling and dissemination of intelligence, there is a distinct need to apply Information Design principles.     

思想政治教育学理论基础及其确立依据的问题探析

目前学术界誊于思想政治教育学理论基础的观点众多且不一致，其原因就在于理论基础确立依据的问题没有得到解决。笔者认为谫学科理论基础确立的依据首先是该学科客观研究对象的性质和特点，其次要借鉴前人的研究成果来作为该学科理论基础确立的依据。在借鉴前人研究成果的同时还要回归到现实上来，也即客观研究对象的性质和特点，纯粹的经验事实上来。     

试论突发事件应对与政府信息公开原则

从分析突发事件应对中的政府公开信息的特点入手,总结国内外有关突发事件应对中的政府信息公开的经验教训,阐述政府信息公开在应对突发事件中的必要性和应坚持的八个原则,并就如何正确把握政府在突发事件应对中的信息公开原则提出相应的解决措施.     

Why information and transparency about electricity matter: Fragmentation of governance and accountability under New Public Management

From 1995, Australian governments pursued efficiency benefits arising from significant structural reforms in the Electricity Supply Industry, including corporatisation and regulation of network monopolies, and introduction of competition for generators and for retailers. The restructure was motivated by the ideology of New Public Management and influenced by the field of neoliberal economics. More than two decades later, prices paid for electricity by residential and commercial customers have escalated sharply, resulting in sustained anger from all consumers. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chair has admitted that ‘The National Electricity Market is largely broken’. This article documents the reduction in public access to information about electricity supply, the fragmentation in responsibility and accountability for consumer outcomes, and the consequences of these changes for transparency, industry operation, and retail electricity prices. New research enabled the creation of a database of Queensland energy production, consumption, and prices; this facilitated a fresh analysis of Queensland electricity sector performance since the restructure of electricity supply.