坚持用最新的理论成果武装全党

坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位,是实现党对构建社会主义和谐社会领导地位的政治思想保证。在新的国际国内形势下,必须始终坚持用中国化马克思主义最新理论成果武装全党,坚持社会主义意识形态占据统治地位。     

沟通:实现人性化执法的有效保障

执法手段由粗暴走向人性化,是执法指导思想和执法理念的重要转变,是建设法治国家不可缺少的要素,也是社会进步的标志。但是,在当前人性化执法中出现了一些冲突甚至暴力袭击执法人员的事件,这应当引起我们的重视。从原因上分析,不但有执法对象的因素,也有执法人员自身的因素,还有其他社会因素。其中,政府及其执法人员与执法对象之间缺乏相互了解和沟通,是人性化执法遭遇障碍的一个深层原因。只有增进执法人员与执法对象之间的相互沟通,才能有效保障人性化执法的良性运作。     

Consent and its meaning to the sexual victimization of women

Two conditions must be met in order for a person to be rightly considered the victim of a crime. First, there must be the victim of some form of harm. Second, the harm in question was the direct result of an act in which the harmed individual did not knowingly consent to take part. What are the dynamics of consent and how important should consent be in defining and placing criminal responsibility in crimes where women are sexually victimized? Finally, how does the conceptualization of victimization change when viewed from liberal and radical feminist perspectives?     

Regime transformation from below: Decentralization,local governance,and democratic reform in Nigeria

How realistic are democratic-governance strategies that emphasize local governance as a key component? Using Nigeria’s experience in local government and primary health care in the 1980s and 1990s as a case example, the article finds there were substantial shortfalls in local participation and program performance. These were caused by problems in the local political environment and local institutional design, in the national policy environment (particularly in the funding system), and by the stresses of structural adjustment, resource shortfalls, the natural physical environment, and weak leadership. These combined to create poor and inappropriate reward structures and lack of accountability. However, even though the Nigerian case was not successful, most of the specific problems that hurt it are remediable through policy changes at the national level. Several of these were under consideration at the time of the coups of 1992 and 1993.