公民权探析

公民权的内容历来受到各国政治制度设计者的重视,通过公民权及其相关范畴,可以透视法治国家宪政思想的源流与走势,彰显国家政治过程、政治制度的合法性和开明程度。公民权,作为与国家权力相对应的范畴,不仅与一个国家的政治过程运行的起点与归宿始终息息相关,而且对政治秩序的形成、社会正义的实现有着直接的影响。因此,关于公民权的理论与实证化研究具有重要意义。     

From Status Politics to Technocratic Pluralism: Toleration of Religious Minorities in Canada

This paper examines patterns of public regulation as they may emerge throughout the West from controversies constructed around new and minority religions. Following Beckford's and Richardson's insights about the sociological exemplarity of these issues, we argue that evidence for some of these trends as well as clues for interpretation can be found in contemporary Canadian constitutional development that parallels and at times precedes that of Europe. Close examination of notions of society and religion found in more than 35 religion cases brought before the Canadian Supreme Court from 1951 to 1997 lead to the conclusion that beside governmental and parliamentary intervention, legal management of religious pluralism is assuming a decisively normative turn. Notions such as status politics, civic ethos, and technocratic pluralism are offered as an explanation of this trend.     

Trends in Residential and Community Care for Dependent Children and Youth in Israel:

Policy trends and their underlying ideologies are reviewed for Youth Aliyah, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. On this basis, the current status of research and evaluation, differential diagnosis and program assignment, and planning accountability are presented with recommendations for needed policy initiatives.     

Electing the Electorate: The Problem of Prisoner Disenfranchisement

The issue of prisoner disenfranchisement is examined in the light of the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v UK . It is argued that the arguments in favour of denying prisoners the right to vote lack plausibility. Prisoner disenfranchisement cannot be coherently defended on the justifications of punishment or on the grounds of risk. On the contrary, matters of principle and policy considerations favour the re-enfranchisement of convicted prisoners.     

城市公共安全管理体系研究

城市公共安全管理是城市公共管理的重要内容,随着经济的持续发展和社会的不断进步,各种社会不确定因素的增多,城市公共安全越来越受到人们的重视,加强对城市公共安全体系的研究和建设势在必行.目前城市公共安全存在诸多问题,我们必须提出相应的解决对策,建立社会公共危机管理机制,扩大公共安全信息的范围,加强对城市流动人口的管理工作,实施交通需求管理,建立统一的报警机制和应急指挥决策系统,使快速反应、统一应急、联合行动成为现实,从而完成公共安全的保障任务.     

坚定不移地发展社会主义民主政治

中国共产党在80多年的奋斗历程中,始终把实现和发展人民民主作为党的价值取向和奋斗目标,并取得前所未有的成就。回顾中国共产党为实现人民民主而斗争的历史,分析我国社会主义民主政治的发展路径,对于在新世纪坚定不移地发展社会主义民主政治具有重要意义。     

Justice Under Global Capitalism?

Under conditions of polycentric globalisation, a positive concept of justice is definitively impossible. Justice is aimed at removing unjust situations, not creating just ones. The justice of fundamental rights coerces expansive social systems into self-restriction. Human rights in particular take the role of counter-principles to communicative violations of body and soul, a protest against inhumanities of communication, without it ever being possible to say positively what the conditions of humanly just communication might be. The article analyses some consequences of this view for social counter-movements and counter-institutions.

宪政语境下的公民主体性法理分析——兼析中国宪政语境下的“国家—市民社会”范式的历史逻辑缺陷

学界对宪政主义与市民社会的引入与研究普遍地存在割裂了西方语境下的宪政主义与市民社会的历史逻辑链条的问题,它忽视了公民主体性这个宪政发展与市民社会构成的基础性与结构性的要件。现代宪政意味着权力自身的矛盾运动,它需要对权力的矛盾运动予以限制和控制以使得其在理性的轨道中运行。权力精英之间的权力博弈在现代宪政中是必不可少的,但是这种权力博弈如果没有具有主体性的公民组成的成熟市民社会的参与,那么它就可能导致宪政体系的崩溃。     

Active citizenship in Turkey: learning citizenship in civil society organizations

This article analyzes whether participation in civil society organizations (CSOs) in Turkey enables the learning of active citizenship. I conceptualize active citizenship along two axes. The first axis includes its defining dimensions (civic action, cohesion, self-actualization) while the second axis includes the types of learning (cognitive, pragmatic, affective) active citizenship requires. The study presents in-depth analysis of participant experiences in four CSOs in Turkey. Data are derived from semi-structured interviews with CSO members and volunteers. Findings reveal the mechanisms that link changes which occur to CSO participants to the various dimensions of active citizenship. The analysis points toward the potential for change in how citizenship is both learned and practiced in Turkey.     

Public Service and Commercial Broadcasting: Impacts on Politics and Society

This article provides an accessible overview of the growing research literature on the impact of public service and commercial broadcasting and highlights its main implications for policy discussions about the future of public service broadcasting in Western societies. It shows that the populations of countries with public service broad‐ and narrowcasting are better informed about government and politics, are more trusting of other people, have more positive civic attitudes, have greater confidence in democratic institutions and are more likely to engage in democratic politics. Moreover, levels of social trust are higher in countries which have a significant public service element in their media systems, even among individuals who do not habitually watch public TV channels. The article ends with a brief discussion of the implications of this research for the future of public broadcasting in the Western world.