上海现代化变迁中的城市文化密码探寻

城市文化的塑造与传承需要密码。上海作为一个以港兴市的城市,演绎了从"滩"的自然景观到"港"的都市景观,超越了既有地理框定的文化景观。近代码头遗产是上海都市文化进程的一个密码和象征符号。基于文献综述、基地考察,从历史物像、场所与事件等三条基因链,来探索这一城市密码的文化内涵、表征体系与历史价值。码头遗产这一密码的可编辑性对于海派文化遗存的再生发展有着积极意义。     

New Methodism and Old: Churches,Police and State in Fiji, 2008–09

Abstract

Although Methodism has remained the dominant form of Christianity in Fiji, Methodist beliefs have been contested by a proliferation of Pentecostal/evangelical churches, but never more directly than by a new form of Methodism which flourished in the years up to 2009. This new church was called the New Methodist Church and, for a period in 2008 and 2009, the Fiji police forces were strongly encouraged to participate and finally to convert to it. This article is part of ongoing research that traces the alliances and challenges between Christianity and the state in Fiji.     

The council of expediency: crisis and statecraft in Iran and beyond

Abstract

Giorgio Agamben argues that in contemporary governance the use of ‘emergency’ is no longer provisional, but ‘constitutes a permanent technology of government’ and has produced the extrajudicial notion of crisis. The engendering of ‘zones of indistinction’ between the law and its practice is what Agamben defines as a ‘state of exception’. This article adopts the notion enunciated by Agamben and revisits it in the Islamic Republic of Iran. There, the category of crisis has been given, firstly, a juridical status through the institution of maslahat, ‘expediency’, interpreted in a secular encounter between Shi^ca theological exegesis and modern statecraft. Secondly, crisis has not led to the production of a ‘state of exception’ as Agamben argues. Instead, since the late 1980s, a sui generis institution, the Expediency Council, has presided and decided over matters of crisis. Instead of leaving blind spots in the production of legislative power, the Expediency Council takes charge of those spheres of ambiguity where the ‘normal’ – and normative – means of the law would have otherwise failed to deliver. This is a first study of this peculiar institution, which invites further engagement with political phenomena through the deconstruction and theorization of crisis politics.     

对烟台市社会管理创新实践的理论思考

经济社会的发展必然会带来一系列社会矛盾和问题,因此也对社会管理提出了更高的要求。本文从烟台市社会管理的实践经验入手,剖析其中存在的问题,并进一步探讨在解决社会矛盾和问题的过程中如何实现社会管理创新突破。     

城市管理转型与城市治理分析框架

在全球化和市场化的推动下,不仅城市外在的形态发生了改变,其内在的权力结构和运行机制也产生了改变。本文选择了从城市权力理论的角度分析城市管理转型。传统的精英论、多元论、城市增长理论强调政府在城市中主导作用,难以解释现代城市的权力转移现象。城市治理理论提出了整合多元主体的思路,注重在多层次治理、跨域治理、治理能力、伙伴关系等方面来分析城市的发展和权力运行。     

对提高干部选拔任用工作民主质量的调查和思考——以贵州省铜仁市为例

干部选拔任用工作民主主要体现在群众知情权、参与权、选择权和监督权的落实上,让所有人都能顺畅、真实地表达个人意愿。提高干部选拔任用工作民主质量的根本标准是把合适的干部选配到合适的岗位上,这样才能有效发挥干部能动作用,也才能体现干部选拔任用工作在广大人民群众的认可度和公信力。     

Public reputation and organised crime: explicating the relationship between racket subcultures and informal social control

This paper examines the influence of traditional organised crime on informal social control in community areas that once had a presence of organised crime while controlling for neighbourhood attachment, satisfaction with the police, social and organisational ties, and tolerance of deviance. The data comes from the Community Survey of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. The comparative quantitative method was used to analyse the data. The findings indicate that neighbourhoods with an historic reputation for organised crime can report higher levels of informal social control when compared to current racket areas in the city of Chicago. These findings have important implications for the study of deviance. Not only do they suggest that criminals can play an important role in controlling street crime, the findings also suggest that this public reputation remains long after organised crime activities have ceased in the area.     

Winning the Bid: Analyzing the International Olympic Committee's Host City Selections

Previous scholarship has relied on case study analysis and anecdotal evidence to explain the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic host city selection process. This has resulted in several provocative claims regarding why the IOC selects particular cities to host the Olympics. Large-n analysis can dispel some of these assertions by identifying the systematic tendencies in the IOC's host city choices. After reviewing the selection process and the different influences on the IOC's choice of a host city, rank-ordered conditional logit estimation is applied to data proxies of bid candidate characteristics from 1959 through 2005. The IOC shows a statistical tendency to base its decision on the economic vitality of a bid city's home country and on the need to maintain continental diversity.     

东营市农村人力资源现状及原因分析

加快农村人力资源开发，提高农村人力资源素质，是建设社会主义新农村的根本。东营市农村人力资源数量丰富，但整体科学文化素质低，人力资源结构不合理，人才资源比较匮乏，农村劳动力弱化、老龄化问题凸现。这是思想认识、“二元”结构、教育体系、投资体制、政策法规、市场制度、管理体制等因素共同影响的结果。为此，东营市应强化措施，大力推进农村人力资源开发。     

科学发展观视野下的我国村庄"多元"治理模式

村庄"多元"治理模式是与"一元"治理模式相对立的一种模式,是以"多元化"治理权力为基础,以"多元化"治理主体为核心,以"多元化"治理资源为桥梁,以"多元化"治理手段为途径的一种村庄治理模式.要建立理想的村庄"多元"治理模式,就必须根除实践中存在的立法、行政和经济文化三大障碍.同时还要看力构建"多元"治理权力和治理手段的合法性机制和协调机制;构建"多元"治理主体和治理资源的培育机制和协调机制.