The uncertain relationship between transparency and accountability

The concepts of transparency and accountability are closely linked: transparency is supposed to generate accountability. This article questions this widely held assumption. Transparency mobilises the power of shame, yet the shameless may not be vulnerable to public exposure. Truth often fails to lead to justice. After exploring different definitions and dimensions of the two ideas, the more relevant question turns out to be: what kinds of transparency lead to what kinds of accountability, and under what conditions? The article concludes by proposing that the concept can be unpacked in terms of two distinct variants. Transparency can be either ‘clear’ or ‘opaque’, while accountability can be either ‘soft’ or ‘hard’.     

浅谈保持共产党员的先进性以德治国与思想政治工作

保持共产党员的先进性,以德治国是党中央新一代领导集体对我党"两手抓,两手都要硬"战略思想的运用和发展,是对建设有中国特色社会主义规律认识的升华,对加强思想政治工作,建设有中国特色的社会主义政治和文化有着极其重要的意义.     

寻找构建和谐社会的"阿基米德支点"

社会主义和谐社会有着丰富的内涵,建立社会主义和谐社会需要在政治、经济、法律和社会等方面进行多方面的努力.尊重和保护人权是构建和谐社会的"阿基米德支点",对此,可从三个方面加以说明,即尊重和保障人权是构建和谐社会的基础,是构建和谐社会的重要主题,是构建和谐社会的基本价值取向.     

中国共产党人民主体思想在新时期的发展与体现

新时期中国共产党的人民主体思想是对中国传统“民本”思想的扬弃,是对毛泽东、邓小平人民主体思想的继承和发展。中国共产党新时期人民主体思想的具体体现是:“三个代表”重要思想、执政为民思想、关注和解决“民生问题”的思想。     

日本参加TPP的“内忧”与“外患”

文章分析了日本参加TPP谈判问题所面临的困境及其对未来内政外交走向的影响。首先,在经济方面,日本因参加TPP谈判将面临是继续保护农业还是扩展制造业出口以振兴经济的矛盾;其次,在政治方面,由于参加TPP谈判日本将面临由于各利益集团冲突引起的国内政治矛盾;第三,在外交方面,因为参加TPP谈判,日本将与美国围绕以农业为主的市场开放的程度问题进行博弈,同时也陷入如何协调美国市场与中国市场的关系的矛盾。文章认为日本将不会在短期内解决这些矛盾,而只能在国内政界重新整合与国际格局进一步发展变化的过程中逐步得到解决。     

和谐社会条件下效率与公平的和谐与统一研究

社会主义的本质决定了社会主义和谐社会应当既是一个高效率的社会,又是一个充分体现社会公平的社会;中国共产党领导广大人民构建社会主义和谐社会的过程,既是一个不断提高经济效率的过程,同时也是一个切实保障和促进社会公平的过程。本文主要探讨了在社会主义和谐社会构建过程中,如何以经济发展和社会发展的辩证统一关系为切入点,在经济效率和经济公平、社会效率和社会公平的不同层次贯彻不同的效率与公平原则,从而实现效率与公平的良性互动,达到二者的和谐统一。     

Society

正Mass-Line Campaign Helps Build Clean Government New statistics charting the progress of the anti-graft campaign have been released by the central government,revealing that more than RMB 53 billion(US$8.6 billion)in public funds have been saved since the launch of the drive last June.More than 100,000 people voluntarily handed over illicit cash or gift cards worth     

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正U.S.Biggest Invader of China’s Cyberspace The latest data from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China(NCNERTT/CC)show that,from March 19 to May 18,a total 2,077 Trojan-horse networks or botnet servers in the U.S.had direct control over 1.18million host computers in China.The NCNERTT/CC found 135     

精神病辩护：历史、社会与现实

精神病辩护制度在普通法国家具有长久之历史,特别在美国,其不仅具有比较完善的刑事责任能力法则,而且其精神病辩护的案件也备受社会各界瞩目。而精神病辩护制度、相关立法或者司法实践活动并不是与世隔绝、生活在真空中的产物,其受到社会、政治、伦理道德等各种因素的影响。同时,即使在精神病辩护制度最为发达的美国,与人们印象中不同的是,实际上精神病辩护并未获得多大的成功,从而形成想象与现实的落差。对于我国而言,应从精神病辩护制度之历史、社会与现实多个视角或者因素考虑,从而确立一种渐进的或者改良的中国刑事责任能力法则或者辩护制度。     

‘That splendid body of women’: nursing,professional registration,and suffragette militancy

ABSTRACT

In the decades before World War One, a group of women fought for their right to control their own futures, claiming that their governance was in the hands of men whose interests lay in keeping women subservient. Initially articulated by an educated, middle-class few, the women's demands were embraced by widening numbers of both women and men. They saw their hopes dashed on several occasions by political manoeuvring, and only after WWI did their demands begin to be met. This is not an account of the women’s suffrage movement, but rather of the fight for the registration of trained nurses. Both movements claimed the right of women to be actors in their public lives and both faced public condemnation for transgressing social boundaries. The two movements interacted, with nurses connecting their struggle to the wider call for women's rights, and with the suffrage movement foregrounding nurses as disenfranchised women professionals.