China's economic slowdown: implications for Beijing's institutional power and global governance role

China's spectacular economic growth over the past decades has given rise to a more confident and proactive China in global governance. China is now an institution-builder, with new Chinese-led institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank designed to cement Beijing's central role in global economic governance. What, then, are the potential implications of a slowing economy for China's institutional power and global governance role? This article locates China's economic growth and slowdown in broader discussions about China's global position and questions about responsibility, order and governance. It argues that China's economic slowdown will not result in a drastic impact on Beijing's institutional power as there are key material, historical and ideational drivers at play here. Unless China is confronted with the prospect of an economic collapse, it will continue to pursue an active institutional role, speak the rhetoric of South–South solidarity with emerging economies and seek a leadership role in reforming global economic governance, even with a slowing economy, because this is intrinsically tied to its identity and how China now positions itself in an evolving global order.     

风险企业与技术创新--兼论国外对风险企业的扶持对我国的启迪

风险企业在技术创新的过程中,起着筹措资金进行投入,缩短技术创新成果市场化时间,尽快实现科技成果经济转化的触媒作用.世界各国都极为重视扶持风险企业的发展,并且形成了创立风险基金、建立企业孵化器、完善立法、实施优惠政策等一系列行之有效的措施.这对推进我国风险企业的发展有着重要的启迪.     

中国反贫困战略面临的困惑及调整思路

20世纪末中国农村反贫困取得了伟大成就 ,贫困人口大幅度减少。世纪之交 ,中国农村反贫困战略也面临诸多矛盾与新的挑战。本文在总结十多年扶贫开发的经验教训基础上 ,对 2 1世纪初中国农村反贫困战略问题进行了探索研究。     

论新型农村金融组织市场退出的法律监管

我国新型农村金融组织市场退出监管的制度建设尚处于探索初期,在实践运行中也暴露出诸多弊端。因此,在建设现代农村金融制度的背景下,对比总结村镇银行、小额贷款公司与资金互助社在经营管理和支农方式上的异同,并在此基础上进行差别化的市场退出监管制度设计,无疑对回应新世纪我国农村金融监管实践、完善新型农村金融组织法律制度具有重要的理论价值与现实意义。     

Towards a professional civil service in post‐transition Romania

To what degree and under what conditions can a young democracy build a competent, politically neutral public bureaucracy? A crucial component of the transition from communist party rule to democracy is the creation of a professional civil service. Success along this dimension of state‐building generates administrative capacity: non‐elected public officials ensure the implementation of reforms initiated by political leaders. In the communist party‐led regimes of Eastern Europe, forging this new administrative class from its highly politicised predecessor took place as new democracies sought to overcome historical legacies and integrate with the European Union. A case study of administrative reform in Romania during the post‐1989 period suggests the importance of external influences in forming a civil service more closely adhering to the Weberian ideal of an expert, rules‐based bureaucracy. Through analysis of survey data from a nationally representative sample of the Romanian civil servants, the public bureaucracy has professionalised insofar as educational and training credentials rather than political affiliation are significant predictors of salary levels. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

马克思农村生态思想对社会主义新农村建设的启示

马克思从生态问题的社会制度基础着手分析,说明资本主义制度导致了生态问题的恶化,并指出资本主义制度不可能从根本上解决农村生态问题,只有社会主义制度才能为生态良好的社会提供制度保障。发挥我国社会主义社会制度优势,努力在我国社会主义新农村建设乃至生态文明建设中做出更多有益的探索。     

Navigating class power and inequalities: new deal liberals and the Los Angeles regional labor board, 1933-1934

ABSTRACT

This article examines how local state officials operated the Los Angeles Regional Labor Board, 1933-1934, a regional branch of the National Labor Board. Amid a surge in workers mobilizing strikes and organizing unions, which faced fierce business opposition in LA, one of the period’s most anti-union cities, local state officials discarded initial solutions to industrial conflict – solutions based on state paternalism and involved parties’ voluntary compliance – and proposed more robust state interventionist tools. Such efforts were to enhance state authority and power and forge greater class equality by accepting worker rights and limiting business prerogatives, while the officials also obsessively encouraged the economic ‘wheels be kept turning and the pulse quickened.’ Drawing on regional-based archives, we trace local officials navigating and shaping social relations, and investigate the unpredictable, everyday workings of local responses to national-level policy-making. Earlier scholarship on the period highlights the role of leaders, like FDR or Senator Wagner, or business elites crafting seemingly pro-working-class policy, alongside the accounts of structural political economy. We emphasize local state agencies tasked with policy implementation becoming sites of contention for class actors and state officials, reflecting more general patterns but also initiating institutional procedures with enduring implications for US capital-labor relations.

Abbreviations: LA: Los Angeles; NLB: National Labor Board; RLB: Regional Labor Board; NLRB: National Labor Relations Board; AFL: American Federation of Labor; LACC: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; M&M: Merchant and Manufacturers Association; NRA: National Recovery Administration     

新农村建设视域下的社会资本建构问题探论

发轫于20世纪80年代的社会资本理论具有很强的解释力。新农村建设是一项涉及政治、经济等多方面的系统工程,社会资本理论可以为其提供较好的分析视角。社会资本由信任、规范和网络构成。这种结构化的特征使得它对新农村建设具有正向功能。培育社会资本、推进新农村建设,需要政府与社会通力合作、协同治理。     

新型农村合作医疗制度中的政府职能定位

新型农村合作医疗制度的建设关系到广大农民的切身利益和农村社会稳定的大局,是社会主义新农村建设的重要组成部分。随着新型农村合作医疗制度的实施,暴露出一些亟待解决的问题,强化政府在该制度中的主导性地位成为解决问题的关键。政府作为公共产品及服务的提供主体,必须在新型农村合作医疗制度中发挥关键作用。在制度设计中充分体现"以人为本"的理念,改善农民的医疗条件,更好地维护农民的切身利益,为我国新型农村合作医疗制度构建做出新的贡献。     

新形势下高校爱国主义教育的主要问题及应对措施

在新形势下加强大学生的爱国主义教育是高校思想政治教育的重要任务。当前高校爱国主义教育受到了来自西方发达国家思想文化、市场经济、经济全球化及信息化的冲击和挑战。针对当前高校爱国主义教育所存在的主要问题,应与时俱进地采取应对措施,强化当代大学生爱国主义教育。