Improving Public Service Education Programs through Assessing the Performance of MPA Alumni

Educational outcomes assessment can improve public service education programs. This article applies the Model of Learning Outcomes for Public Service Education which suggest that enabling characteristics—factors that mediate the relationship among immediate, intermediate, and longer term outcomes—can improve our understanding of public service education. A survey was conducted of alumni at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and the American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The responses from the two groups of MPA program alumni were striking: curriculum understanding and application were markedly similar, suggesting that this model is appropriate for use in different contexts.     

Performance Contracting as an Instrument for Improving Performance in Government: An Indian Experience

In this article, the effectiveness of the Performance Contracting or the Results Framework Document (RFD) process and its impact on improving Government's performance in the Indian context were analyzed. The results reveal that the RFD process has a significant and positive impact on the performance of ministries in the Government of India. The initiative has helped in an objective assessment of ministries and a focused effort on achieving the organizational targets, and in enabling performance orientation among civil servants. It has also contributed to a refining of the organization's vision and mission and their integration with the organizational objectives. However, the process has been driven by civil servants. The initiative has not been integrated with the budgeting process, and the performance appraisal and performance-based incentive systems. The study has enabled validation of existing frameworks of PMS and incorporating the RFD process in a generic integrated framework of PMS.     

2007波兰议会大选分析

2007年10月21日,波兰提前举行议会大选,共有9个政党或竞选联盟角逐众议院460个席位和参议院100个席位,其中4个政党或联盟得票率超过<选举法>规定的5%和8%进入议会.     

执政能力建设与执政系统的优化

执政能力是指执政系统的整体能力。执政系统的整体能力关涉党的执政系统的生存和发展 ,关涉执政系统的结构和功能 ,执政能力的增强依赖于整个执政系统的优化。从政治学的角度看 ,执政系统赖以生存和发展的因素主要包括两大方面 :执政系统的合法性和科学性。执政能力的增长以执政系统的合法性为基础 ,以提高党的执政系统的科学性为主要增长点。而优化执政系统的主要目标就是不断增强执政系统的合法性和科学性。     

加强少年法庭工作的实践与思考

自1984年上海市长宁区法院成立第一个少年法庭开始,我国的少年法庭工作经历了从无到有,由点到面、由小到大、由弱到强的发展过程,二十多年来的实践和探索,少年法庭工作积累了丰富的经验。然而时至今日,关于少年法庭组织以及少年审判工作有无必要、其存在的价值和作用等仍有来自于不同方面的疑问与争议。本文结合青岛法院少年法庭工作的实践,就少年法庭工作中存在争议、少年法庭工作的基本理念以及当今少年法庭工作如何进行改革创新以赢得新的发展机遇提出一些思考。     

区域合作中文化因素的建构主义分析

伴随着全球化的迅猛发展而兴起的地区合作已成为当今世界发展的一个重要趋势。本文主要运用建构主义的研究方法,从文化的视角探讨了在国家层次上民族文化对地区合作的影响路径,以及在地区层次上比较分析了同质文化与异质文化对地区合作所产生的不同作用。在此基础上提出了地区跨文化认同是地区合作发展和深化的基础和潜在动力的结论,并就建立地区跨文化认同的必要性和可能性进行了分析。     

Pluralising global governance: Analytical approaches and dimensions

This paper argues that a significant reframing of global poverty is likely to emerge in the next decade as world poverty becomes less about the transfer of aid and more about domestic distribution and thus domestic politics. This proposition is based on a discussion of the shift of much of global poverty towards middle-income countries. There are questions arising related to how countries are classified and to administrative capacities, as well as to domestic political economy, but it is argued that many of the world’s extreme poor already live in countries where the total cost of ending extreme and even moderate poverty is not prohibitively high as a percentage of gdp. By 2020, even on fairly conservative estimates, most of world poverty may be in countries that do have the domestic financial resources to end at least extreme poverty; this could imply a reframing of global poverty.     

Assessing the Performance of a Court System: A Comprehensive Performance Measures Approach

Many court systems suffer from long lead times, poor service quality, and low throughput. In many cases improvements are continuously introduced through various managerial and professional methods. This article proposes a set of measures to assess the effectiveness of court systems. This set of performance measures includes response-time, throughput, and work-in-process. While court systems generate a multitude of statistical data it is difficult to apply them across individual courts.

The article tailors well established generic performance measures to the specific court arena. The individual measures are aggregated into a single figure that assesses the court's performance along the time axis and relative to comparable court systems.

The proposed measure of performance and the aggregate score were validated with real life figures from the Israeli court system.     

The Role of Risk in Improving Goal Setting in Performance Management Practices within Public Sector: An Explorative Research in Courts Offices in Italy

The study investigates whether the adoption of a risk-based approach that allows public managers to take into account the context and external not-controllable factors during goal setting may contribute to overcome unintended managerial side effects of performance management (PM) practices that hamper their success within public organizations. An explorative research is carried out on court officials of Italian public administration. The results from this study show that the adoption of a risk-based approach could enhance goal setting within the PM process and provide interesting insights to policy-makers invested of the responsibility to improve the effectiveness of current PM procedures.     

不断提高应对国际局势和处理国际事务的能力--学习十六届四中全会《决定》的体会

我们党历来重视从国内和国际两个大局着眼,分析党所面临的形势和任务,制定党和国家的战略、方针和政策.党的十六届四中全会<决定>指出:"必须正确应对国际局势,妥善处理国际事务和国际关系,争取良好的国际环境和周边环境."在对外开放的条件和复杂多变的国际形势下,坚持独立自主的和平外交政策,提高党应对国际局势和处理国际事务的能力,是加强党的执政能力建设的重要任务.     

The Mediating Role of Ethical Climate in the Relationship Between Performance Appraisal and Organizational Performance

Although prior research has consistently established a positive relationship between performance appraisal and organizational performance across different research contexts, the mechanisms that underlie this link remain unclear. The present study attempts to fill this void by testing the mediating role of ethical climate in the relationship between performance appraisal and organizational performance across 181 Nigerian public sector agencies. Cross-sectional mediation analyses were performed using partial least squares path modeling approach. Results indicated that performance appraisal was positively and significantly related to organizational performance. Regarding the mediating effect, ethical climate significantly mediated the relationship between performance appraisal and organizational performance. The study made recommendations and drew suggestions for future research to enhance the performance of public sector agencies.     

我国青少年法制教育的完善

文章总结了20多年来我国青少年法制教育取得的良好效果和存在的主要问题以及完善青少年法制教育的几点建议。理论联系实际,总结经验,吸取教训,为我国今后完善法制教育提出了明确的方向。     

改善我国公民社会制度环境的若干思考

改革开放以来,一个相对独立的公民社会正在中国迅速崛起,并且对社会的政治经济生活发生日益深刻的影响。中国公民社会的兴起有其积极的意义,但它也是一把双刃剑,政府的政策法规和行为措施得当,就容易使民间组织与政府合作,有利于社会的和谐与稳定;反之,民间组织与政府的合作就很困难,甚至会走到政府的对立面,危害社会的团结与稳定。我们应当进一步完善中国公民社会的制度环境,改革的重点应当是在深刻认识公民社会发展规律的基础上,进一步转变对公民社会的态度,对其给以正确的定位和合理的分类,加紧修订和完善关于民间组织的法律、规章和政策,从审批、登记、注册、监管、经费、税收等方面,对民间组织既积极支持、热情帮助,又正确引导、合理规范,营造一个有利于公民社会健康成长的制度环境,防止民间组织成为政府的对立面,使其更好地与政府合作,齐心协力建设社会主义和谐社会。