Fascism: The Ideology of the British National Party

The revival in interest in the British far right as a result of recent localised growth in support for the British National Party (BNP) necessitates analysis of its political ideology and objectives. This article seeks to demonstrate that the BNP is virulently hostile to liberal democracy and that this hostility derives from its revolutionary, fascist agenda. The point that the BNP is a fascist organisation is significant and cannot be ignored. At the very least, it raises important questions about the place of the BNP in contemporary British politics     

How Ideology Fuels Affective Polarization

Scholars have reached mixed conclusions about the implications of increased political polarization for citizen decision-making. In this paper, we argue that citizens respond to ideological divergence with heightened affective polarization. Using a survey experiment conducted with a nationally representative sample of U.S. citizens, we find that increased ideological differences between political figures produce increasingly polarized affective evaluations, and that these differences are especially large among respondents with stronger ideological commitments and higher levels of political interest. We provide further support for these findings in an observational study of citizens’ evaluations of the U.S. Senators from their state. We also find that the polarizing effects of ideological differences can be largely mitigated with biographical information about the public officials, which suggests that the pernicious consequences of ideological polarization can be overcome by focusing on matters other than political disagreement.     

试析全盘否定斯大林对苏联意识形态建设的影响

评价历史人物的功过无可厚非，关键是要客观、公正。赫鲁晓夫借口反对个人崇拜，大肆揭露、抨击斯大林，乃至不顾历史客观事实全面否定斯大林。由于斯大林在苏联党和国家的特殊地位，全面否定斯大林引起社会动荡，尤其在意识形态领域造成严重的后果。     

关于县级机构改革的理性思考

县级政府作为国家政权的基层执行机关和相对稳定的社区单元,它既是综合改革的前沿阵地,又是社会经济发展的重要区域.县级机构改革的成功与否,将直接影响到整个国家政治体制的改革和全社会的安全.     

意识形态转型:从政治意识形态到科技意识形态

在西方发达工业社会,意识形态发生了转型,科学技术成为了意识形态。科技意识形态与政治意识形态在理性基础、特点、运行机制、功能等方面不同。科技意识形态的产生对传统历史唯物主义意识形态理论造成了巨大的冲击和挑战,要求历史唯物主义做出回应。面对冲击和挑战,必须实现对马克思文本从知识论向生存论的重新解读。     

有关国家意识形态安全的思考

随着经济全球化,思想文化领域斗争日益艰巨,意识形态安全问题日益突出。国际上敌对势力针对我国的颠覆手法日益翻新,这使国家意识形态研究备感紧迫,必须在适应新形势、新变化的基础上坚持马克思主义指导地位,加强理论研究,大力开展党的基本理论教育,吸收借鉴西方文明,创新工作方法,特别是盯紧网络媒体,加强意识形态工作的队伍建设以及建立意识形态安全机制等。     

How to argue about the new public management

Hood and Jackson's (1991) distinction between administrative argument and administrative philosophy has been largely overlooked in writings on NPM. This seemingly subtle distinction flows from the more obvious one between “practical argument” and “social scientific explanation.” These terms refer to different scholarly practices. Practical reasoning is a highly-developed form of scholarship in law, public policy, and political theory. Explanation is a highly-developed scholarly activity in political science and related disciplines. The fact that practical argument and explanation are, in principle, complementary scholarly activities in practically-oriented fields such as public management is not a reason to overlook the distinction between them. If scholars writing on NPM made more of this distinction, it might prove easier for their readers to see precisely how social science explanations and practical arguments are interrelated. Discussion of how well claims have been supported would then be facilitated. Also, it would be easier for writers to decide how to engage the NPM literature. Not only would the issues be clearer, but it would also be easier to discuss the merits of alternative approaches to tackling them. If more weight is given to the distinction between practical argumentation and social scientific research by scholars of NPM, an urgent question is: how should the scholarly practice of practical argumentation be characterized?     

Compassionate Democrats and Tough Republicans: How Ideology Shapes Partisan Stereotypes

Political Behavior - Trait stereotypes are a fundamental form of social cognition that influence public opinion. A long line of literature has established partisan stereotypes of politicians, but...     

试析邓小平的政治体制改革思想

邓小平政治体制改革思想,是邓小平理论的有机组成部分.学习和研究邓小平的政治体制改革思想,对完整理解邓小平理论,完成十五大提出的政治体制改革的任务,具有现实意义.     

Thinking about Ideology and Method: a Comment on Schull

This article addresses some theoretical problems which arise in a recent article by Joseph Schull on ideology and Soviet-type societies. I argue that the conceptualizations of Marxism-Leninism, ideology, and discourse offered by Schull are unlikely to enhance the study of Soviet ideological practices significantly because Schull's approach is both too essentialist and too general. Schull treats these concepts as unities reducible through proper definition. I argue that they are better understood as problematics which, in the first two cases, encompass a wide variety of forms and practices; and, in the third, a variety of methods and approaches. Since the study of Marxism-Leninism or ideology, like anything else, is driven by questions, problems, hypotheses, etc., I suggest that it is unhelpful to engage in a priori generalizations about method.     

马克思恩格斯意识形态批判及其意义——《德意志意识形态》中的意识形态批判思想

“从天上降到人间”是德意志意识形态虚假性的根源,正确理解意识形态产生发展过程及其实践意义的思考路径是“从人间到天国”;意识形态具有阶级性和历史性,对德意志意识形态的批判是消灭旧世界、发现新世界的重要理论支点.马克思恩格斯关于德意志意识形态批判的论述和思想,对当前我国意识形态的维护与发展以及文化建设有重要的指导意义.     

关于树立正确执政理念的思考

执政理念是执政主体对其执政活动的理性认识和价值取向。执政理念决定一个政党能否对自身执政权力形成正确的认识和执政行为的价值取向。执政理念的内容包括对权力来源和本质的认识及其观念,对权力如何行使和行使权力的价值指向的认识及其观念,对执政权力监督的认识及其观念三个基本要素。在坚持正确的执政理念的实践过程中需要克服认识上的各种偏差和缺陷,切实践行执政为民的执政理念。