The impact of the Texas top ten percent law on college enrollment: A regression discontinuity approach

We use regression discontinuity methods on a representative survey of Texas high school seniors to discern the impact on flagship‐enrollment behavior of the Texas top 10 percent law, which guarantees admission to any Texas public university to students who graduate in the top decile of their class. By comparing students at and immediately below the cut‐point for automatic admission, we find that the top 10 percent law affects flagship enrollment of Hispanic students eligible for the admission guarantee, as well as rank‐eligible graduates from high schools where minority students predominate and from high schools with the state average share of economically disadvantaged students. Our findings are robust to various model specifications and different bandwidth choices using local linear estimation. © 2010 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.     

历史必然性问题的三种观点辨析

历史必然性作为历史规律最基本和最主要的特征，在20世纪伴随着历史规律存在性问题成为国际理论界的争论热点。大致形成了“严格必然论”“偶然论”和“可能论”三种观点。它们各有侧重与可取之处，但又都存在着自身难以克服的理论困境。因此，结合新的时代背景，区分“偶然内的必然”与“偶然外的必然”、坚持“理论的必然”与“现实的必然”、“客观必然与“主体能动”的辩证统一，不仅有助于拓展历史必然性问题的研究视野，对于深化历史规律存在性问题的研究具有更为重要的意义。     

美国在黎以冲突中的得与失

8月14日,黎巴嫩真主党和以色列开始执行联合国安全理事会通过的1701号决议案,历时一个多月的黎以冲突终于告一段落.表面上看,这场地区战争的主体是以色列和黎巴嫩真主党,实际上参与战争的远不止这两个国家.有人将这场战争称为"代理人战争",以色列是美国的代理人,真主党游击队是伊朗、叙利亚的代理人,这种说法尽管与事实有一定的差距,但也从一个侧面说明黎巴嫩、以色列之外的国家在战争中发挥着重要作用.     

China-U.S. Relations Facing with New Opportunities for Development

China-U.S. relations maintained a continued and steady growth accompanied with some positive and substantial changes during the 8-year of the Bush administration. On the basis of this, China-U. S. relations are faced with great opportunities for further development at a time when the international financial crisis continues to worsen and neo-liberalism is beginning to have a hold over the diplomatic ideas of the Obama administration.     

The Coming Sino-U.S. Clash？ --A Review of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Eight years ago, Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago argued that a Sino-U.S. confrontation was inevitable in the first 20 years of the 21st century. In the light of the 20 years＇ development in Northeast Asia since the end of the Cold War, however, all scenarios and explanations given in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics are incorrect.     

试论当代中国和谐执政党建设

社会主义和谐社会建设关键在党,在于一个能够把握全局、驾驭复杂局面的执政党。而和谐执政党的建设一方面是社会主义和谐社会建设的重要组成部分,另外和谐的执政党对社会主义和谐社会建设起着推动和促进的作用。对和谐执政党建设的理解要从整体上把握,不仅包括执政党内部和谐,更包括执政党与周围政治环境、政治体系的和谐。因此,和谐执政党建设应努力保持和促进好党民和谐、党国和谐、党际和谐和执政党自身和谐。