党的创建与"三个代表"作为立党之本的确立

以"三个代表"为立党之本的中国共产党是20世纪初中国先进生产力、先进文化和先进阶级这三大先进力量发展的结果.在党创建过程中发生的三次论争是早期共产主义者从理论上论证为什么要创建"三个代表"的中国共产党的过程.党的"一大"和"二大"制定的最高纲领与最低纲领体现了我们党"三个代表"的长远性与阶段性、先进性与层次性、理想性与现实性的统一,是中国共产党初步确立"三个代表"这一立党之本、完成党的创建期的标志.     

时代主题的争论与(新)现实主义

邓小平的时代观是国家战略与世界特征的结合.和平与发展的时代主题是任务与形势的统一,是"问题"和"主题"的统一.现实主义和新现实主义并不能从理论上否定和平与发展的时代主题.同战争表现为常数一样,和平也可以表现为常数.(新)现实主义存在着解释上的漏洞,已无法适应当前国际关系发展的现实.     

教育:梁漱溟乡村建设之途径

20世纪30年代,梁漱溟先生为国家的前途命运进行了不懈的探索.他认为"乡村建设"是解决中国问题的唯一出路,而教育则是进行乡村建设的重要途径.梁漱溟先生的教育是个人与社会结合的教育,是学校教育与社会教育为一体的教育,是知识分子与农民结合的教育,是"政教合一"的教育.梁漱溟先生试图通过这种全方位的、平和的教育,来达到改造乡村,进而改造整个社会的目的.     

从中国与“天下大势”解读“中国模式”

近年来,有关"中国模式"或"中国道路"、"北京共识"成为各国政治家和学者竞相谈论的话题.所谓"中国模式",实际上就是"中国特色社会主义道路"、"中国特色社会主义理论体系"在国外政治家和学者视野中的另一种话语形式."中国模式"造福于中国与世界,它是中国的,也是世界的文明成果.本文将"中国模式"置于20世纪70年代末以来中国这段很不寻常的历史和当代世界的"天下大势"中作一审视与解读.     

“富二代”犯罪的法律思考

"富二代"犯罪是当前颇受关注的热点问题,值得我们认真思考和研究.我个人有以下几点看法与大家交流、探讨. 第一, "富二代"犯罪问题具有显著的时代特征,是在当前这一特定时代背景下产生的新问题.     

马克思"世界历史"观、全球化进程与社会主义运动

资本主义世界市场的形成是全球化进程与马克思所说的"世界历史"启动的条件,但是资本主义进程、全球化进程与"世界历史"进程并不同步.应完整理解马克思的"世界历史"观,包括被恩格斯晚年放弃了的论点,而不能断章取义.应全面认识经济全球化的双重效应与"两制"关系的新特点,只有在积极应对全球化的挑战、深化自身的体制改革中,社会主义才能得到发展.     

"主张和平的社会主义":中国和平崛起的意识形态基础

21世纪中国的"和平崛起"是马克思主义和平理论与中华传统文化"以和为贵"的思想价值观念相结合的产物.马克思主义经典作家曾对和平理论进行了阐述,邓小平提出的"主张和平的社会主义"是马克思主义和平理论的新发展,是中国和平崛起的意识形态基础.     

浅谈“思想自由”与“兼容并包”

"包容"是"北京精神"的重要内容,也是推动社会主义文化大发展大繁荣、推动先进文化之都建设不可或缺的重要指针. "思想自由,兼容并包"这一伟大思想,是蔡元培先生提出来的,就从历史上确立了北京大学的学术地位,这一思想也影响着北京这座历史名城人文观念的形成,至今仍然光芒闪耀.应该说明的是"思想自由,兼容并包"从来就不是绝对的.蔡元培先生早就指出:"自由"与"容",不是"不受限制的宽容与自由",而是有条件的宽容与自由;条件是要"言之成理,持之有故",不是毫无根据的胡说八道,是在社会发展中有其存在的必然性和必要性,而不是早已被历史与社会淘汰的没有任何价值的东西.     

写诗,从做人开始——记邮递员出身的诗人刘志云

他生在乡村,长在乡村,打小喜欢"土坷拉"的那股子精神. 他属虎,A型血,摩羯座,中等身材,1962年12月26日出生于北京通州. 他的父亲是一位邮政职工,母亲是一个地地道道的农民. 兴许是与京东大运河这片洋溢着浓厚文化气息的沃土有缘,他自幼喜爱诗歌,一直在迷茫和探索中追求.时常与几位喜爱诗歌的"文人"在一起吟诗论作,图个快乐.     

共产国际的"世界革命论"与共产国际作为"世界共产党"的不同步性变奏

"世界革命论"是共产国际建立和存在的理论基础,共产国际作为"世界共产党"则是推进世界革命的组织栽体.共产国际的"世界革命论"与共产国际作为"世界共产党"组织之间在很长的时间里处于不同步性变奏的不和谐状态,其一致性却是极为短暂的.     

Power and transformational and transactional leadership in public and private organizations

Ten public and 35 private organizations located in Central New York State participated in a university- sponsored research project to study the effects of organizational characteristics upon types of leadership (transformational/transactional) and power demonstrated by supervisors. Public sector organizations in which managers had low control over rewards were compared to private sector organizations in which managers had high control over rewards.

Followers perceived public sector supervisors as more inspirational by their followers and they used more active management-by-exception behavior than those in private organizations. Private sector supervisors had more reward, legitimate and coercive power than supervisors in public sector organizations.     

Natural Resources and Small Island Economies: Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract

Historically, small economies, especially resource-rich ones, underperformed on average relative to their larger counterparts. Small island economies appear still more disadvantaged due to remoteness from both markets and agglomeration economies. Yet a comparison of two small island economies with similar initial conditions other than their mineral endowment suggests that policy outweighs size, isolation and resource endowment in determining economic performance. Resource-poor Mauritius adopted an unfashionable policy of export manufacturing that systematically eliminated surplus labour, which drove economic diversification that sustained rapid GDP growth and political maturation. Like most resource-rich economies, Trinidad and Tobago pursued policies that absorbed rent too rapidly, which impeded diversification and created an illusory prosperity vulnerable to collapse.     

Russian stereotypes and myths of Ukraine and Ukrainians and why Novorossiya failed

This article discusses two inter-related issues. Firstly, the factors lying behind Russia's fervent belief that its Novorossiya (New Russia) project, aimed to bring back to Russia eight oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhhya, Odesa, Mykolayiv, and Kherson in eastern and southern Ukraine and launched during the 2014 “Russian Spring,” would be successful. Russian identity misunderstood, and continues to misunderstand, Ukraine and Ukrainians through stereotypes and myths of Ukraine as an “artificial state” and Ukraine's Russian speakers as “fraternal brothers” and Russians and Ukrainians as “one people” (odin narod). Secondly, why Ukrainian national identity was different than these Russian stereotypes and myths and how this led to the failure of the Novorossiya project. Russian stereotypes and myths of Ukraine and Ukrainians came face to face with the reality of Russian-speaking Ukrainian patriotism and their low support for the Russkij Mir (Russian World). The article compares Russian stereotypes and myths of Ukraine and Ukrainians with how Ukrainians see themselves to explain the roots of the 2014 crisis, “Russian Spring,” and failure of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Novorossiya project.     

Earnings and ethnicity in Trinidad and Tobago

This study employs 1993 Continuous Sample Survey of the Population (CSSP) data for Trinidad and Tobago to investigate the determinants of earnings by ethnicity. The data, organised into three ethnic groupings, reveal lower levels of remuneration in the labour market for Africans and Indians than for individuals of other ethnicities taken as a whole. While the larger portion of the earnings differentials generally appears to be explained by ethnic differences in characteristics valued by the labour market, Africans and Indians would benefit substantially if they were to receive the same rates of remuneration for their educational endowments as workers of other ethnicities in the Trinidad and Tobago labour market. Notwithstanding Indians’ lowest average earnings, Africans appear more likely to be discriminated against.     

现代化与未成年人犯罪

未成人犯罪随着现代化的发展而发展，这可以说是一种国际现象。在现代化进程中，我国未成年人犯罪大量增多的原因在于：未成年人生理、心理发展不平衡，家庭教育存在缺失，学校教育存在不足，社会上存在着很多消极因素。在现代化进程中，必须采取有效对策，控制未成年人犯罪增多，才能保障未成年人健康成长。     

Country size and economic growth and development

This paper attempts to provide limited empirical evidence on the nature of the relationship between country size and rates of economic growth and levels of economic development, and on the possible effects of trade concentration and dependence on trade on this relationship. It suggests that there is no discernible association between country size and economic development, nor between country size and economic growth, and that neither the dependence on trade of small countries nor their commodity and geographic export concentration are necessarily important factors in economic growth and economic development.     

“两抢”犯罪的趋势与防控

根据最近16年的统计数据，我国“两抢”犯罪总体呈上升态势，且出现多方面的特点。当前，影响“两抢”犯罪变化趋势的因素主要有：社会管理机制完善的程度、社会成员之间收入的差距、“两抢”犯罪主体特点、社会成员的防范意识以及公安机关的防控机制等。预防“两抢”犯罪需要整个社会尤其是公安机关的共同努力。     

Government and Corruption: Scylla and Charybdis

Using public sector employment and corruption perception data for 72 countries across the world, this article demonstrates that despite common notion countries with “smaller” governments do not tend to have lower corruption. Under general assumptions, one can demonstrate that there is an optimal size of public sector employment corresponding to the highest capital intensity. The model has several implications: lower optimal sizes of governments for labor intensive countries and higher sizes for capital intensive ones, possibility to reduce corruption paying a cost of suboptimal output, and a higher “price” of an oversized government for labor intensive countries.