公益诉讼与和谐社会——以群体诉讼为考察对象

建立和谐社会是现代法治的必然要求,公益诉讼与和谐社会休戚相关。囿于公益诉讼的特性,公益诉讼必须通过群体诉讼达致社会的和谐。群体诉讼的扩散性纠纷解决功能、公共政策形成功能以及程序保障功能都契合和谐社会的要求。     

公共精神：公共行政现代化的价值维度——一种基于和谐社会视角的分析

近代以来直至当前的和谐社会之诉求,现代化始终是萦绕在中国人心目中的一个实质性问题.然而,现代化又是一个全方位、多层次的系统工程,公共行政现代化是其应然维度之一.现代化从"器物"到"政制"直至社会精神文化和伦理价值观念这一结构性的深化历程,更昭示了公共精神正是公共行政现代化须臾不可"缺场"的价值向度.实际上,从公共行政自身发展的认识论与方法论双重维度去探究和反思公共行政的现代化现象,我们也发现公共精神不断地从边缘向中心位移,从"遮蔽"状态走向"解蔽".其中,公共行政现代化所涵摄的民主理念、公正理念、契约精神、公共服务精神以及和谐、科学的发展理念等公共精神既是公共行政现代化本身,也是构建和谐社会的精神骨核与价值引擎.一种多元宽容、诚信友爱、公平正义、和谐有序的社会公共生活能够得以形成和延续必须以发育良好的公共精神为其基本精神质料和社会价值支撑.我们需要从不断健全和完善市场经济体制,开新传统公共精神资源,大力培育公民社会、拓展公共治理的实践参与,加强公共意识教育、提升公共理性水平等几个方面努力来促进公共精神的化育与养成.     

Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

This article reflects on the vocabulary commonly used within development organisations to communicate about ‘gender and development’. It argues that the relevant terminology, though frequently used, remains problematic. Some terms are almost entirely absent, while others are used loosely and inappropriately – with the subtleties of carefully developed and much-debated concepts often lost. Terms such as ‘empowerment’, ‘gender’, and ‘gender mainstreaming’ which originated in feminist thinking and activism have lost their moorings and become depoliticised. Despite these problems, there are indications that debates and language may be taking a more radical turn with the acknowledgement of the shortcomings of the practices of gender mainstreaming, the deepening of interest in the notion of empowerment, and the explicit adoption of a human-rights language.     

NGOs and the dynamics of the Egyptian labour market

This article discusses the role that NGOs play, not in their traditional role as service providers, but as employers in the Egyptian labour market. Over the past two decades, NGOs have been offering attractive job opportunities to middle-class professionals who are disillusioned with the private sector and no longer interested in joining the state bureaucracy. The working conditions of the growing number of NGO employees, and NGOs' performance as employers, have not been investigated in the substantial academic and policy literature on NGOs, which so far has been almost exclusively concerned with NGOs' relationships with their ‘beneficiaries’, rather with than with their position as active players in a changing labour market.     

论循环型社会发展的执行体系与制度创新——以江苏为例

循环社会发展的本质特征是一种社会生活方式和生产及消费模式的转型,即从注重物质消费经济人向注重人与自然和谐、追求环境质量最大化的生态人的转型。近年来江苏的现代化进程和社会经济进一步协调发展为这种系统转型提供了较好的社会基础,而积极构建循环型社会的规划建设体系、政策支撑体系、组织管理体系、制度推进体系、法律保障体系,将为循环社会的建成提供基本动力和重要条件。     

环境友好型社会呼唤绿色政治文明

生态问题实质上是政治问题,构建环境友好型社会必须促使生态学与政治学联姻,大力推进绿色政治文明建设。绿色政治文明的基本内容有绿色政治文化价值、绿色政治行为文明以及绿色政治制度文明,它们从多维角度促进着人与环境友好型社会的建设。     

市场经济与劳动者工资分配的再研究

随着我国社会主义市场经济体制的确立和发展,我国工资分配制度有了重大的变化。传统的计划经济体制下的工资分配制度,平均主义“大锅饭”式的旧的分配格局正在向市场机制转化:市场决定工资,企业自主分配,国家宏观调控。一个以工资与贡献同步,分配与生产挂钩,报酬与劳动相结合的     

Development,racism, and discrimination in the Dominican Republic

From an analysis of recent empirical research in the Dominican Republic, this article addresses the ways in which racism underpins elements of governance, and explores organisational and individual responses to racialised discrimination initiated by the state. The context is timely, given the steady rise in reported racist and violent attacks against people presumed to be of Haitian origin in the Dominican Republic over the past five years. The government has intensified formal military and police round-ups of migrants and settlers suspected to be of Haitian origin, and this article assesses the group and individual responses to these state-led actions, analysing formal and informal interventions, their evolution, maintenance, and impact.     

Advocacy in the Amazon and the Camisea gas project: implications for non-government public action

The article considers international advocacy concerning the exploitation of gas reserves in an area inhabited by an isolated indigenous group in Peru, the Machigengua. Considerable international advocacy activity was centred mainly in Washington, DC. Poor communication between those directly affected and international environmental NGOs characterised very different and not always compatible agendas. The article concludes that this failure to adapt the international lobby both to the views of the indigenous population and to political realities in Peru severely weakened the impact of the international advocacy work.     

浅议市民社会与完全市场经济体制的建立

去年以来,完全的市场经济地位问题已经成为国人共同关注的一个重大问题。与外国政府谈判,使其承认中国完全的市场经济地位当然非常重要。但是,我们更应该反省我们是否已经建立了完全的市场经济体制。本文认为,市民社会是市场经济的基础,没有发达的市民社会就不会有成熟的市场经济。所以,要彻底解决我国完全的市场经济地位问题,需尽快型塑具有中国特色的市民社会。