Protecting the living: Managerialism and professional turf wars in risk regulatory death investigations

This paper demonstrates how general trends in the management of public institutions, and a specific turf war between the doctors and lawyers in Ontario, Canada, have combined to shape an important risk regulatory decisionmaking process: the coroner's inquest. Drawing on ethnographic evidence, I show how the priorities of managerialism, and the collateral effects of physician coroners battling with lawyers, have reduced the number of public inquests convened in Ontario by 80 per cent over a 20‐year period. Where many public safety decisions affecting the province's legal, policy, and physical environments were once made at public inquests, they appear now more likely to be made in private. The paper examines the implications of reduced public participation in the analysis of, and response to, death.     

论情报主导警务中的警务参谋制度构建--源于德军参谋部建设经验的启示

考察德军参谋部建设历史,其成功经验在于：一是建立专门独立的辅助决策机构;二是坚持以科学理论指导实践;三是以数学为主要手段确保情报分析高效科学;四是以实证方法确保理论和实践统一;五是及时推广应用新的科学技术;六是打造知识化、专业化参谋队伍。我国公安机关应借鉴德军参谋部建设之经验,在情报主导警务机制建设中,以规范的组织体制、科学的工作理念及专业化的参谋队伍为主题,构建警务参谋制度,完善辅助决策机制,提升警务决策科学化水平。     

A Big Idea for the Big Society? The Advent of National Citizen Service

The proposed introduction of National Citizen Service (NCS) by the Conservative party survived the negotiations with the Liberal Democrats and forms part of the coalition's policy agenda. The idea forms part of the concern of Cameronian Conservatives to create a big society, based primarily upon volunteering and civil engagement. Drawing upon comparisons with state and private sector‐led models of citizen volunteering in Germany and the United States, this article explores the evolving rationale for the introduction of NCS and evaluates the issues and pitfalls which may arise.     

高校工会与现代大学制度

现代大学制度强调学术自治和学术自由,要求实行开放,实现以人为本。我国法律赋予了高校工会独立的社会团体法人身份。高校工会要找准自身在学校运作和管理中的定位,以社团法人身份独立参与现代大学的建章立制,完善缓冲功能,服务于教学科研,推动校务公开,培育职业道德和校园人文精神,为创建现代大学制度与和谐校园做出贡献。     

Introduction: In Defence of Politics

In a world that is increasingly dominated by literary hyperbole there can be no doubt that Bernard Crick's In Defence of Politics remains a classic text. Classic not just in the sense that it provides a masterly account of the essence, meaning and fragility of democratic politics but classic in the sense that it is written with a style, verve and passion that is rarely found within political science. If the test of pretensions to ‘a classic’ status is that a book defies the passage of time in terms of significance and argument then Crick's Defence would also make the grade for the simple fact that its arguments remain arguably far more important today than they were when they were first published exactly fifty years ago. This article reflects on the contemporary significance of Crick's Defence by defending politics against an updated set of adversaries in the form of: public expectations, marketisation, depoliticisation, the media, and crises before locating the book within the contours of current debates about public disengagement, the rise of ‘disaffected democrats’ and questions concerning the future and relevance of political science.     

我市职工托管服务中心维权维稳情况调查

托管中心为退出市场企业所设立的非经营性、非营利性、非企业法人、服务于被托管职工的组织,目前存在着社会保障缺位,被托管人员生存困难、矛盾纠纷频发,托管中心缺乏解决手段、资金来源不足,托管中心帮扶有难度等问题。建议各级党政工团及社会各界将做好托管中心工作视为共同责任;切实提高托管中心承载能力;同时积极推行退出企业人员的社会化管理。     

论农村基层组织人员的职务犯罪之成因——以Y县为例

农村基层组织人员职务犯罪的形成是社会系统非良性运行的结果。当前农村处于特殊转型时期,村民集体效能低下、社会控制弱化形成了农村基层组织人员职务犯罪产生的不良客观环境,而要预防和减少犯罪,需要改善和加强社会和国家对农村基层组织的社会控制。     

丹麦司法人员的培训及国际合作

作为丹麦全国警察总监办公室的一个部门及丹麦国家培训中心机构，警察学院负责为正规警员提供基础及培训课程，为法律人员及民事行政人员提供进修培训课程。警察学院广泛参与国际警察合作，培训问题在其中愈来愈受到重视。     

The Role of Community in Facilitating Service Utilization

SUMMARY

Guided by an integrated theory of parent participation, this study examines the role community characteristics play in influencing a parent's decision to use voluntary child abuse prevention programs. Multiple regression techniques were used to determine if different community characteristics, such as neighborhood distress and the community's ratio of caregivers to those in need of care, predict service utilization levels in a widely available home visiting program. Our findings suggest that certain community characteristics are significant predictors of the extent to which families utilize voluntary family supports over and above the proportion of variance explained by personal characteristics and program experiences. Contrary to our initial assumptions, however, new parents living in the most disorganized communities received more home visits than program participants living in more organized communities. The article concludes with recommendations on how community capacity building might be used to improve participant retention.     

A Long Way to Go: The Final Report of the Speaker's Conference on Parliamentary Representation

The Speaker's Conference on Parliamentary Representation reported in January 2010. The report calls for a host of measures to improve the representativeness of the House of Commons and to revitalise political parties, as well as to enhance citizenship education, develop youth and community citizenship engagement programmes, and more generally to revitalise British democracy. Early responses indicate that the government and political parties will take the report seriously. The report is thoughtful, thorough and extensive, a treasure trove for policy makers, advocates and researchers. If it has a weakness, it is that it shows a better understanding of parliamentary reform than of party reform.