Public administration in hong kong: Crises and prospects

Current studies on Hong Kong public administration have overlooked three emerging crises of the administrative system -- the crises of mediocrity, the public service, and the metapolicy -- which may result in a complete collapse of the colonial regime. The analysis reveals the following. Firstly, operating within a paradoxical context, civil servants find it difficult to maximize their contribution. Hard pressed by the delimma of “to strive for excellence or to observe medicoirty,” many choose the latter. Thus, the overall performance of many Hong Kong public agencies and civil servants is unacceptable. Secondly, at the absence of a political theory which redefines the relationship between the political system and socio-economic system and thus the mission of the public service, many civil servants lack commitment to the public service and therefore the norm of medicority is reinforced. And thirdly, the government has reformulated its metapolicy in a way that system overloading is likely, thus making Citizen insubordination probable. It is conclusded that the future of Hong Kong is bleak and that remedial actions are awaiting: the first task is the quest for a new set of political ideology and public philosohgy; the next is reformulation of a new metapolicy, followed by forceful pulbic sector management reform.     

Transformational Government? The role of information technology in delivering citizen-centric local public services

Following on from five years of ‘electronic government’, the Labour Government has recently announced a new five year plan for ‘transformational government’. Like its predecessor, t-government emphasises the important role of information technology in enabling the delivery of modernised public services. Modernisation is defined as an increasing emphasis on citizen choice, personalisation of services and understanding and responding to service user needs. This paper explores the appropriateness of the t-government agenda by drawing upon lessons learned from the preceding e-government era. Arguably the most significant citizen-focused technology of the e-government era was customer relationship management. The potential of CRM to support service transformation is explored and co-production, an alternative approach to citizen-centric service design, is examined both as a way of addressing weaknesses in IT-enabled service transformation and as a candidate later stage in the evolution of citizen-centric local public services.     

长三角雾霾污染的时空演变及影响因素——兼论多方主体利益诉求下地方政府雾霾治理行为选择

本文运用Theil指数、莫兰指数、Kendall系数和空间计量模型等方法,对长三角都市圈城市群2014-2017年PM2.5的时空格局演变与影响因素进行了实证分析后发现,长三角区域空气质量持续得以改善,但呈现“北高南低”“冬高夏低”的时空差异特征,地区差异呈缩小态势,区域PM2.5污染呈现明显的“U”型曲线。同时大气污染季节变动呈高度一致性,在空间分布上具有显著的正自相关关系,各城市雾霾污染的空间分布具有邻域之间的空间关联结构。由于区域雾霾污染呈现多种污染源耦合构成的复合污染态势,并且区域内各省市具有地方性污染特征,加上雾霾污染治理中不同利益主体的不同利益诉求,这就要求针对污染源种类制定精细化的雾霾防治政策,实现地方性法规与国家法规政策的互补,并基于合作博弈选择逻辑从整个社会的利益出发,使治理法规政策体现制度性、公平性和合理性。     

转型期的俄罗斯林业管理体制

俄罗斯的森林工业对于国民经济具有重要的经济意义和社会意义,森林工业产品的产值占国家工业生产总额的5%以上,森林工业部门具有很大的生产潜力,其成员由3万多家企业和单位组成.在国民经济的各部门中,诸如煤炭工业、铁路运输、建筑行业、农业等许多部门的工作,在很大程度上都和森林工业有着密切的关系.俄罗斯全国森林资源的生态环境没有遭到破坏,不仅能保证现在和将来国家对木材需求的供给,而且还可扩大木材出口.经济转轨以来俄罗斯的林业管理体制发生了重大变化,并将对俄罗斯林业生产与对外林业合作产生深远的影响,应引起我们的高度重视.     

俄罗斯社会十年巨变的生动画卷——评《过渡时期的俄罗斯社会》一书

《过渡时期的俄罗斯社会》的作者张树华同志是一位年轻有为的研究人员.他80年代中从南开大学毕业后,就到中国社会科学院俄罗斯东欧中亚研究所从事研究工作.他80年代末和90年代初在莫斯科大学留学的那几年,正值苏联和俄罗斯社会发生激烈变化之时,他亲自目睹和经历了当时苏联和俄罗斯发生的巨变,其后又曾多次到俄罗斯进行学术考察,所以他对这些年来俄罗斯社会变化的真实情况感性知识较多,感受也较深.他90年代中从俄罗斯学成回研究所工作后,一直从事俄罗斯政治社会和文化领域的研究,在这方面出了不少研究成果.我看过他写的一些论文,感到他常能提供许多新鲜的材料,提出不少给人以启发的见解.他这几年着力于写一本专著,想比较全面和深入地介绍和探讨一下俄罗斯社会10年来发生的巨变,包括社会的状况、它的变化过程、变化轨迹、变化的文化思想基础等等.现在,这本以《过渡时期的俄罗斯社会》为书名的专著已由新华出版社出版.     

Radioimmunoassay detection limits for 19-OH F1 alpha/F2 alpha prostaglandin in normal, infertile and vasectomized semen stains. Analysis of saliva, sweat and urine for possible non-specific or matrix effects

The sensitivity of a simple radioimmunoassay (RIA) for the detection of 19-OH prostaglandin F1 alpha/F2 alpha (PG F) has been evaluated on a number of semen samples from vasectomized, infertile and fertile donors. The specificity of the test has been examined by testing saliva, sweat and urine from a number of male and female donors. The assay technique could readily detect the PG in semen stains prepared from 0.2 microliter of semen from normal, infertile and vasectomized donors. The detection limit of the assay system, based on the observed displacement, was calculated to be approximately 0.05 microliter semen. The assay could be conducted over a pH range of 7.5-10.5 even after the PG has been heated to 100 degrees C. The 19-OH series of PG were absent from sweat, saliva and female urine using the normal assay protocol; volumes in excess of 100 microliters of some urines particularly from women in labour and those with acute urinary tract infection showed some displacement. Low levels of PG were detected in 50% of the male urine analysed. However, urine samples from men who had engaged in recent sexual activity contained relatively high concentrations of PG which could be readily detected in 10 microliters of urine. These results emphasise the potential of these compounds as specific and sensitive markers for the presence of human semen.