The Riddle of Prince Gong＇s Mansion Restoration

RINCE Gong's Mansion on Qianhai West Street,Xicheng District near Shichahai Lake consti-tutes an archetype of Beijing's 60 Qing Dynasty(1644-1911) prince's mansions, according toLuo Zhewen, research fellow and leader of thespecialists group of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. The state has allocated RMB 400million to rebuilding Prince Gong'sMansion into a national museum, RMB183 million of which is earmarked forrenovation and restoration. The mu-seum will incorporate …     

政治专家对美国中东政策的影响

第二次世界大战后,随着世界经济、政治形势的巨变,各国综合实力的竞争日趋激烈。如何科学决策成为政府头等重要的课题。为了制订出有效的政策,解决各种复杂的现实问题,政府便求助于各类咨询研究机构,思想库随之勃兴。这些思想库既不是纯粹的学术机构,也不是企业或者政府机构,而是以研究分析内外政策为己任、以影响政府决策和选择为目标的研究组织。对政府来说,这些思想库既能围绕政策制定而进行研究,又能发挥收集材料、处理信息、提供方案的专长,从而有利于国家领导们进行科学决策。实践表明,很多思想库在政策规划方面已获得公众的支持和认…     

The Relationship Between Religious and Spiritual Factors and the Perpetration of Intimate Personal Violence

Despite some understanding of general correlates and possible antecedents to intimate partner violence (IPV) within the Christian community, the impact of religious and spiritual factors tends to be confounded by other factors and is often misjudged. Archival data from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were used to examine the impact of nine religious and spiritual factors on the probability of IPV perpetration by males, aged 18 to 26, who nominally classified themselves as Catholic, Protestant, or Christian. Logistic regression results indicated that IPV perpetration could not be adequately predicted from the religious and spiritual factors. Given the geographic breadth and the size of the Add Health sample, no finding of a predictive model for Christian male-perpetrated IPV challenges the paradigm that religious and spiritual factors should be overtly addressed in faith-based batterers’ programs targeting young adult males.     

The Australian Welfare State: Has Federalism Made a Difference?

This paper examines the historical development of the Australian welfare state with a view to identifying the role that Australia's federal constitutional arrangements have played in shaping that development. Theoretical paradigms have been unanimous in their prognoses: that federal states are likely to be slow in developing welfare state programmes and typically spend less on them than unitary states. But recently it has been argued that federal institutions may have a “ratchet effect” of slowing down the pace of change, irrespective of its direction. The purpose of this chronological account of significant stages in the development of the Australian welfare state is to use the unfolding of historical events — far too rich in nuance and detail to be captured in quantitative modelling — as a test‐bed for establishing whether, and, if so, to what extent, federalism has impacted on the trajectory of Australian welfare state development.