聚焦校园暴力

校园暴力已成为一个社会关注的热点问题,它的形成涉及政府、学校、家庭、社会、学生个人等多方面原因,只有采取标本兼治、综合治理的对策,才能有效控制这一现象的发生和蔓延。     

关于俄共重评斯大林问题的几点思考

文章共分三个部分:一、研讨“俄共重评斯大林问题”的重要性;二、俄共“重评斯大林”所涉及的15个问题;三、中国学术界对“俄共重评斯大林问题”应采取的态度。     

有感德国人的循规蹈矩

早在100多年前德国就制定了结构严谨、规范细密的<民法典>,它不仅成为大陆法系的杰出代表,而且一直是法学界的重要研究对象.这与德意志民族循规蹈矩的秉性是否有什么必然联系,我不得而知,但德国人的循规蹈矩在世界上是出了名的.在日常生活和工作中,维护"秩序"和"规则"在德国可谓深入人心,有时连人们见面打招呼都说,"你那里一切有序吧?"(Alles in Ordnung bei dir?译为:你那里一切都好吧?或:你那儿没问题吧?).循规蹈矩既成了德国保持社会稳定的一个因素,也成了德国寻求社会变革的一种阻力.     

全球治理新观察与中国角色再思考

新兴大国的群体性崛起对长期以来主要由西方主导的国际体系造成了强烈冲击,也使全球治理结构发生了前所未有的深刻变革。在谋求建立国际政治经济新秩序的过程中,新兴大国之间有着广阔的合作空间和巨大的合作潜力,但要真正成为全球治理中的重要一员,尚有很长的路要走。新的时代背景需要新的战略思维,究竟以何种身份和角色参与全球治理进程,进而推动国际秩序朝向真正公正合理方向发展,是摆在中国面前的一个兼具理论价值和现实意义的重大战略课题。     

Notes on Contributors

In the 1990s, several public corruption scandals were uncovered in Sweden. This article focuses specifically on local corruption, and our purpose is to examine whether a case can be made that problems of public corruption in Swedish municipalities have increased. By applying instruments from the institutional rational choice framework, we reach the conclusion that there are indeed reasons to suspect that retrenchment initiatives and organisational reforms over the last two decades, often labelled ‘new public management’, have increased the risk of corruption. Although hard empirical data do not yet exist, the suspicion that public corruption in Swedish municipalities may have become an increasing problem cannot be disregarded. Hence, we conclude by calling for further empirical research in this field.     

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Social services departments have been an integral feature of local authorities in England for delivering social services since 1970 with a distinct identity, a largely uniform set of social service functions and similar organisational structure. This model of a unified social services department has survived major structural reorganisations in local government, the community care initiatives and social services modernisation agendas. This paper reviews recent government initiatives to promote closer collaboration between health and social services and identifies the different models now in place or being put into place. These include formal partnerships, integrated management, integrated care trusts and the example of fully integrated health and social services trusts. The paper considers whether such developments along with the establishment of new children's trusts will finally mean the disintegration of local authority social services departments, whether the Seebohm vision has been abandoned and what future there is for social care within local government.     

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This short article explores the introduction of directly elected mayors in England and identifies that the case for mayors, as made within New Labour's agenda of 'modernisation', has proceeded on the basis of inconsistent arguments. The article suggests the failure of the reforms either to deliver empowered 'big hitters' or to transform levels of interest in local electoral politics. It explores the diminishment of the public discourse of mayoralty, from one of high ambition and capacity to a more beleaguered discourse of enfeeblement and disenchantment. It argues that while it is easy to explain the project's lack of early impact as being the result of effective resistance by vested interests, critical attention must be paid to the problematic nature of the proposals themselves and that the experience of mayors is symptomatic of a broader incoherence within the 'modernisation' agenda.