战略机遇期的百年历史考察与对策思考

战略机遇期是新时期我们党在总结过去,基于现实的前提下提出的战略性理论纲领。以理性思维历史的考察、分析战略机遇期的提出与发展,有利于更好的汲取历史教训．把握现实的发展成果,对新时期建设有中国特色社会主义伟大事业具有不可替代的作用。     

建国60年来马克思主义中国化的十大经验

建国60年来的全部实践历史和理论发展证明,中华民族的伟大复兴和中国现代化建设之所以取得了辉煌成就,关键就在于坚定不移地推进马克思主义中国化进程并积累了宝贵经验。     

From subjectivism to constitutionalism: the intellectual journey of James M. Buchanan through his Italian heroes

Quack medicines were prepackaged, commercially marketed medicinal concoctions brewed from “secret recipes” that often contained powerful drugs. Governmental regulation of them in late nineteenth-century England is heralded as a landmark of public health policy. We argue that it’s instead a landmark of medicinal rent-seeking. We develop a theory of quack medicine regulation in Victorian England according to which health professionals faced growing competition from close substitutes: quack medicine vendors. To protect their rents, health professionals organized, lobbied, and won laws granting them a monopoly over the sale of “poisonous” medicaments, most notably, quack medicines.

     

37 years with Keith T. Poole

This piece contains slightly revised remarks made at the conference honoring Keith T. Poole held at the University of Georgia in May, 2017. Poole’s major contributions are summarized.     

The Calculus of Consent: a compass for my professional journey

This paper investigates empirically the influence of government ideology on social policy using German data. Examining the funding and the benefits of social security and public healthcare policy, my results suggest that policies implemented by governments dominated by left- and rightwing parties were similar over the 1951?C2007 period. Leftwing governments, however, spent more in the 1970s and rightwing governments did so after German Reunification in 1990. Since policy convergence encourages new parties to enter the political arena, and party platforms on social policy matters are likely to undergo further changes in light of demographic change, the observed pattern may thus be a transitory phenomenon.     

The electoral consequences of two great crises

Who benefits from deep economic crises: the left, the right or neither? On the basis of evidence from elections in 1929–1933 and 2008–2013 in all states that were democracies in both periods, it is argued in this article that the electoral consequences of the Great Depression and the Great Recession were surprisingly similar: in both periods, right‐wing parties were at first more successful than left‐wing parties, although this effect only lasted for a few years. The manner in which a crisis develops over time should be taken into account when examining the effects of deep economic downturns on the electoral fortunes of the left and the right.     

开启建设社会主义政治文明的新航程

政治文明概念是马克思1844年提出的。但这一概念只在马克思著作中出现过一次。150多年来恩格斯、列宁、毛泽东、邓小平都未用过它。但我们应看到,在马列主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论中,是蕴涵着丰富的政治文明建设思想。江泽民同志在新世纪里,明确提出“社会主义政治文明”的新概念,并把它作为全面建设小康社会的重要目标,不但赋予了小康社会的政治内涵,使小康社会内生出科学社会主义的光辉,而且开启了建设社会主义政治文明的新航程。     

One Concept of Liberty

In this paper I argue in favour of a single conception of liberty, that picked out by Berlin as negative liberty. However, Berlin's defence of liberty so understood seems to rest on a view not open to the moral realist.
The first half of the paper explains this and suggests an alternative defence compatible with such a moral position. The defence rests on an account of why we value freedom. In the second half of the paper this negative conception is defended against recent criticism from Charles Taylor. His appeal to qualitative distinctions within freedom is queried, as is the conception of the self that seems required for his outlook.