近十年国内“妇女参政”研究现状：一个文献分析

“妇女参政”比例近年来逐渐提高，妇女参政研究也热情高涨，考察近十年来国内关于“妇女参政”的研究进程及现状可看出，文章的发表年份、研究内容、研究方法、期刊属性、区域分布等方面都表现出许多不足，需要我们深入把握这一主题，努力促进学科发展。这对于实际生活中的政治实践行为具有非常重要的意义。     

权力政治与文化斗争——韦伯的国家观

韦伯是在现代政治的权力逻辑中审视国家,国家被界定为在特定领土范围内垄断了使用武力的正当权利的政治组织.民族国家是现代国家的主要形态.现代政治的主题即为民族国家间的权力斗争.现代国家担负着在世界上寻求权力以捍卫和张扬民族(文化)的重要使命.     

从《独立评论》时评看胡适的民主宪政主张——兼与《新月》时期比较

胡适关于民主宪政的系列时评构成了《独立评论》最重要的内容之一。胡适批评国民党名不副实的“训政”,从理论和实践层面上阐释宪政在中国实行的重要性、可行性和阶段性,对反对宪政的观点进行了商榷和反驳。与《新月》时期相比,胡适批评的对象有所调整,批评的锋芒有所缓和,但他反专制的精神没变,爱国立场和独立人格依旧,他始终把实行民主政治确定为刊物最重要的内容之一。     

对东亚现代化进程中威权政治的思考

战后东亚国家出现的威权政治体制,是特殊历史条件下的产物,有其深厚的政治、经济基础。经济与政治基础的相对薄弱无疑是东亚选择威权主义政治而不是西方民主制的重要原因。在战后相当长的时间里,“威权 发展”模式反映了东亚国家要求改变落后面貌的愿望,取得的成就是显著的。但是它并不符合现代化发展的总体要求,从长远观点来看,它只是一种过渡形式。     

论高校思想政治教育在和谐社会建设中的作用

高校思想政治教育在构建和谐社会中应发挥其特有的作用,高校思想政治教育通过建设和谐校园,培养和谐理念,促进大学生的健康成长,为和谐社会的构建树立典范;通过社会精神文化建设,为和谐社会建设提供思想、政治、道德基础和人才保障,促进社会主义和谐社会建设。     

Targeting the Motivated? Ethnicity and the Pre‐emptive Use of Government Repression

Research on government repression often focuses on the comparison between states over time and provides little insight about the targets of repression within a state. This article unpacks government repression against different ethnic groups. It argues that non‐democratic governments use pre‐emptive and targeted repression against ethnic groups that are discriminated, strong, or have a history of protest or rebellion in order to prevent future ethnic rebellions. For democratic governments, on the other hand, the cost of pre‐emptive repression is too high. The article tests this argument in a quantitative analysis of government‐group dyads. It finds at least partial support for some implications of the argument: Autocratic governments use more repression than democracies against discriminated groups, but only when they are also weak, and against groups with a history of protest. There is little evidence that regimes of either type respond to previous violent mobilization or group strength with repression.     

Explaining subnational parliamentary scrutiny powers: A fuzzy-set analysis of German Landtage

While the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty has important implications for regional parliaments with legislative competences, most studies have focused on cross-country differences or examined the activities of regional parliaments at the EU level. This contribution shows the existence of substantial intra-country differences in the formal scrutiny rights of regional parliaments. We analyse how German regional parliaments (Landtage) have addressed the challenge of controlling their governments in EU affairs. Using fuzzy-set comparative qualitative analysis, we find that institutional and partisan factors (vote share in the second chamber, economic potential, and conservative governments) explain the differences found among German Landtage particularly well. Landtage with otherwise weak parliamentary prerogatives were successful in using the reform momentum to strengthen their rights in the field of EU policy. Combined with the party political salience of EU policy-making, the integration process has thus empowered formally weaker Landtage.     

Politics,exit strategy and political settlement in Sierra Leone: a critical analysis of a laboratory experiment (1991–2015)

Abstract

A glance at key indicators—in terms of growth forecast and stable elections—will project Sierra Leone as a political settlement model for a post-conflict state. Sierra Leone has been an important laboratory for UN and international donors’ interventions and thinking. However, efforts by the international donor community to decentralise power to the margins, both geographically and demographically, have failed. Instead, this focus on the institutions of governance has allowed the same elite to maintain power. Sierra Leone today shares similar socio-economic and political conditions with the Sierra Leone before the outbreak of the civil war. A detailed analysis of the country’s socio-economic trends, its political institutions and the logic and dynamics of violence show a disturbing picture. While the international community considered that an exit strategy was feasible, the political settlement remains an experiment in that it is detached from everyday life and livelihood concerns of Sierra Leoneans and reveals the structural violence behind this process.     

Political enthusiasm for social pensions and its eventual decline in Taiwan: an institutional account of pension dynamics in a new democracy

Over the last two decades, there has been a remarkable transformation of the demography and political economy of East and Southeast Asia, thus raising pensions as an important policy issue. In addressing the pension needs of those outside formal sector employment, Taiwan was the regional forerunner regarding social pension provision. However, the immense political popularity of these schemes waned and from the mid-2000s onwards the government began to substitute them with a contributory system for the socially disadvantaged. This paper analyses the political dynamics of social pensions in Taiwan, from expansion of coverage through to gradual dismantlement. The politics surrounding these benefits has received scant attention in international scholarship, with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute, in particular, having focused most of their attention on policy design issues. The contention here is that a specific configuration of political factors featured prominently in Taiwan, thus providing an explanation for the evolution of its pension policy. Also, these political dimensions can shed light on how this type of pension could evolve in other East and Southeast Asian countries, which is pertinent given that many have increasingly ageing populations.