Left-right party ideology and government policies: A meta-analysis

Abstract. This paper summarizes how the partisan influence literature assesses the relationship between the left–right party composition of government and policy outputs through a meta–analysis of 693 parameter estimates of the party–policy relationship published in 43 empirical studies. Based on a simplified 'combined tests' meta–analytic technique, we show that the average correlation between the party composition of government and policy outputs is not significantly different from zero. A mutivariate logistic regression analysis examines how support for partisan theory is affected by a subset of mediating factors that can be applied to all the estimates under review. The analysis demonstrates that there are clearly identifiable conditions under which the probability of support for partisan theory can be substantially increased. We conclude that further research is needed on institutional and socio–economic determinants of public policy.     

20世纪90年代拉美国家的财政管理改革

20世纪90年代大多数拉美国家实施了调整预算权力分配、建立财政货币政策协调机制、进行财政支出项目规划、完善财政支出控制和监督制度等方面的财政管理改革,其目标是控制财政赤字,提高财政管理效率和公共支出效益,发挥财政政策的宏观调控功能。由于经济不稳定和政治力量分化严重,一些国家财政管理改革的连续性较差,难以深入。上述两重因素构成了拉美国家深化财政管理改革的主要障碍。     

论警察法治

警察法治是国家法治文明的重要标志,是社会和谐稳定与公平正义的推进器,是保障民生和维护民权的强大后盾。警察法治具有促进社会和谐发展,保障人权、民主、自由、平等,强化法律权威和推进依法行政以及推动警政建设、警务工作和谐发展的功能。警察法治的基本要求是牢固树立执法为民的思想和坚持严格公正文明执法。     

中国海岛的保护开发与管理

中国海域辽阔,海岛众多。海岛在资源、权益、国防等多个方面都有着极其重要的地位。另一方面,在中国经济高速发展的今天,海岛渔民的的生活与沿海有很大的差距。关注民生,海岛需要发展;关注国家安全与长远利益,海岛需要保护;要做好保护与开发,需要立法。该文总结海岛保护与利用的现状、成就,分析问题,提出设想,就海岛的利用、保护与管理立法向全国人大提出建议案,推动海岛立法。     

Operationalizing cultural citizenship: towards a concept of culture regime*

This paper contributes to the study of cultural citizenship by laying the foundations for a concept of culture regime. Depicting culture as a malleable concept that encompasses both particularistic and universalistic elements, the paper emphasizes the potential of the concept of culture regime to bridge those of citizenship, language and ethnicity regime. While presenting narrow conceptions of culture as ethnic identity as a defensible compromise in the context of comparative empirical research, the paper discusses how the study of culture regimes could integrate broader approaches to culture by incorporating other forms of cultural claims and identities that go beyond ethnic traits. In doing so, the paper aims to promote an inter-disciplinary dialogue on cultural citizenship, arguing that some of the differences in cross-disciplinary approaches to culture owe to methodological rather than ontological considerations.     

Disappointments of post-colonialism

Jean-Fran?ois Revel is a French writer and philosopher. He is the author of Without Marx or Jesus, The Totalitarian Temptation,and How Democracies Perish.     

1966年美国富布赖特听证会对华决策影响力浅析

1966年美国富布赖特听证会历时一个月,是在美国国内反战舆论不断高涨,有关中国问题的辩论也空前热烈起来的背景下举行的。1966年3月8日,鲍大可与费正清、斯卡拉彼诺、戴德华、汉斯·摩根索等14位中国和国际问题专家出席了听证会。鲍大可在发言中指出:“过去近17年间,我们对共产党中国采取的是一种最好被形容为旨在遏制与孤立的政策。在我看来,     

Perceived coercion and need for hospitalization related to psychiatric admission

Psychiatric hospitalization constitutes a moment of major stress to the point that occurrences of posttraumatic stress disorders have been described. Feelings of coercion are usual, whatever the legal status of admission. Patients may also consider afterwards that they needed hospitalization even if they refused it initially. A cross-sectional survey has been conducted among the inpatients of a Swiss psychiatric hospital to assess their subjective view of admission with emphasis on legal status, perceived coercion and need for hospitalization. Eighty-seven questionnaires were completed and analyzed. Results indicated that 74% of patients felt that they had been under pressure to be hospitalized, whether or not they were involuntarily admitted. Seventy percent felt their admission was necessary. More involuntary patients reported a subjective lack of improvement. Clinicians could decrease feelings of coercion of their patients while discussing need for hospitalization, legal status and subjective feeling of coercion as different dimensions. An argument is presented to favor positive pressure from social environment over legal involuntary commitment in many hospitalizations.