Dark side of social media and academic performance of public sector schools students: Role of parental school support

Students are regularly engaged in several things at the same time during class and school time. They are using smartphones, tablets, laptops, and using social media on these devices while learning and attending class. However, there are some situations likely influenced by this, current study tests the influence of technostress, cyberbullying, and media multitasking in the context of students in technology‐saturated classrooms and how this is affecting their academic performance. This study further explored the buffering effects of parental school support on the relationship between technostress, cyberbullying, and student's performance. By using the person‐environment fit model, this study surveyed 248 public sector school students in two waves and examined the impact of these variables on student's academic performance. Results show that technostress, cyberbullying, and media multitasking have a negative impact on student performance, and school parental support moderates the negative relationship between technostress and student performance. Implications and contributions have also been discussed.     

Ethiopian female labor migration to the Gulf states: the case of Kuwait

ABSTRACT

International labor migration is one of the most salient features of the modern globalized world. However, the phenomenon has its roots in some earlier periods in human history. Africa is traditionally a sending continent of all types of migrations, voluntary or forced. This study examines the above-mentioned issues through the mounting phenomenon of migration of single independent women in search for better economic, social, or political conditions across the boundaries of their home countries. In the past, African women migrants were only spouses or dependent family members. But as modernity swept most African societies, with rising unemployment rates, there is evidence everywhere in Africa that women labor migration is a growing phenomenon that deserves to be understood in the context of current gender-related research. This work explores these issues further, focusing on the experience of Ethiopian women labor migrants to Kuwait, within Gulf Cooperation Council, an area with a shared socio-economic background. In addition to numerous difficulties already facing labor migrants, Ethiopian women suffered greater degrees of gender-based violence, underpayment, and trafficking, to mention only few aspects of human rights violations. This situation could be attributed to the fact that most of these women fall under the category of unskilled and/or illiterate migrants, as irregular migrants who are employed within the private sector, outside the purview any legal or labor regulatory authorities.     

Reconstructing Citizens as Consumers: Implications for New Modes of Governance

This article examines the relationship between government and the public within a producer–consumer market exchange. Four conceptual problems are identified in relation to the application of market models to the relationship between government and citizen. These types of models fail to account for the essentially political engagement between government and citizens, the collective responsibilities of government, the absence of markets in many areas of government service delivery and the complexity of relations between government and citizens.     

政府预算的科学性与软约束——基于中国财政预算执行情况的实证分析

政府预算作为一种制度设计是对政府行为的一种约束机制,其灵魂体现在政府具有的法治性。然而从我国的财政实践看,政府预算并没有对政府行为产生有效的约束,自由裁量行为在政府预算的编制和执行过程中普遍存在。本文通过对我国财政预算执行情况的分析对政府预算中的软约束现象进行了研究。研究认为,我国政府预算中的软约束现象归因于政府预算的法治性较弱,政府执法的意愿较低。克服这一现象,使政府预算真正发挥对政府行为的约束作用,关键是构建激励相容的机制。     

从“省直管县财政改革”迈向“省直管县行政改革”——安徽省直管县财政改革的调查与思考

安徽等地实行的省直管县财政改革和扩权强县改革,在创新财政体制、推动县域经济发展、提高行政管理效率等方面取得了明显成效,但省直管县财政体制与市管县行政体制并存也产生了亟待解决的问题。要从根本上解决这些问题,继续放大财政改革和扩权改革的体制能量与制度功效,必须适时启动和稳步推进省直管县行政改革,构建扁平化的省直管县公共行政体制。     

论侵权责任法规定行政侵权责任的必要性

行政侵权与一般民事侵权是两种不同的侵权,行政侵权责任是在公法领域中发生的私法责任。法院在审判实践中处理行政侵权案件时,应当优先适用国家赔偿法的有关规定;国家赔偿法无规定时则适用一般法,也就是适用侵权责任法的规定。民事法律规范在行政赔偿问题上的继续适用有内在的合理性;侵权责任法草案对行政侵权责任做出原则性的规定,符合我国的立法传统。因此,将来的侵权责任法规定行政侵权责任是必要的,也是可行的。     

群体性事件与领导干部应对能力建设论析

有效因应群体性事件,维护社会和谐稳定,是各级领导干部尤其是处于一线的领导干部亟待破解的现实难题。本文对现阶段我国群体性事件的基本态势及特点进行概括性解析,重新审视了领导干部的应对能力现状,并着重提出了新时期领导干部应对群体性事件所应具备的基本能力及其建设的着力点。     

公平视角下的中国基本养老保险制度改革

本文就当前中国基本养老保险制度上存在的问题进行了分析,提出了以公平为本完善基本养老保险制度,要保障所有公民公正公平地享有基本养老保险的基本权利,既要避免同为公民,一部分享有基本养老保险权益而另一部分却享受不到的状况,也要尽量避免同为公民,相同的状况下却因工作岗位、工作性质不同而基本养老保险权益差别较大的状况。     

现代公共行政基本功能:亟待研究的哲学范畴

中国行政学的研究,自上世纪80年代初恢复和发展以来,行政功能的研析一直与职能混淆而使其被严重忽视。本文展开了相应的追踪探源与梳理,揭示了两概念混淆的学术根源;在行政哲学层面,诠释了结构与功能在现代科学研究中固定搭配的意义,据此探析了行政功能与职能的几点重要区别,从理论上解答了亦论不亦的问题;进而阐释了现代行政的三大功能及其关系,揭示出其在当代中国公共行政理论建设中具有的现实紧迫意义。