Democracy in Latin America: Issues of Governance in the Southern Cone

This article explores academic debates on transitions and democratic development, and outlines ideas relating to the governance issues considered by the papers in this special section. It presents a discussion of recent debates on democracy and transition in Latin America and concludes on the need to conceptualise the state in the region after the return to democracy. In so doing, it analyses issues of governance and highlights the role of the political class in building a democratic state.     

县域经济发展中的山东模式：特征、比较与对策

从全国来看，山东的县域经济发展成效显著、特色鲜明、典型突出。山东县域经济发展的模式特征可以归结为：政府主导、地区竞争、三产衔接、做大县城、自主创新、外贸外向。这些方面与县域经济发展中的“南方模式”存在显著区别。“山东模式”在其地理区域性、特色性、影响力等方面有可能成为代表北方县域经济发展的主要模式而与“南方模式”相较一长或各领风骚。     

东晋南朝人口迁移及其影响述论

东晋南朝时期 ,人口迁移的规模之大、范围之广、历时之久 ,超过以前任何一个历史时期。大量人口迁入东晋南朝境内 ,产生了多方面的重要影响 :首先 ,从实质上讲 ,东晋南朝特别是其中的东晋、宋、齐、梁 ,是移民政权 ;其次 ,丰富了南方文化的内涵 ,提升了南方文化的层次 ;再次 ,促进了区域经济的开发     

对陕南移民搬迁工作规范化建设的思考

陕西省委、省政府提出,用10年时间对陕南三市居住在深山半坡和地质灾害点上的60万户,240万群众实施移民搬迁,这是解决陕南恶劣环境地区群众居住安全和生存发展的重大民生工程。要达到"搬得出、稳定住、能致富"的目标,就必须大力推进搬迁工作的规范化建设。笔者认为,应在搬迁工作制度化、规划选址科学化、工程建设规范化、搬迁安置项目化、资金筹集多元化、安置政策优惠化、社区组建新型化、移民致富产业化等八个方面进一步推进移民搬迁工作规范化建设。     

冲突和调适的界碑--湘西南长城之历史文化定位

湘西南长城是改主归流后民族矛盾再次加剧后,在平息民族冲突中,重新调适地区社会秩序的产物.明清政府修建南长城是为了从军事上长期有效地控制湘西地区的社会秩序.南长城保障了民族的有序交往,巩固了改土归流的成果,促进了湘西少数民族地区政治、经济、文化的发展.同时在巩固中华民族的统一和发展过程中发挥了它应有的历史作用.     

Global populism and its 1890s Southern United States antecedent: the vexing case of Thomas E. Watson and William Faulkner’s literary intervention

ABSTRACT

Contemporary global populism combines systemic critique of power inequities with a politics of resentment. This conjunction under conditions of modernity gives rise to populisms whose twenty-first-century manifestations markedly exhibit features of Southern variants of the 1890s populism that briefly convulsed United States politics. Volatile mixtures of systemic critique and resentment politics, of progressive and proto-fascist tendencies, are vividly illustrated in the career of Thomas E. Watson (1856–1922), a prominent Georgia lawyer and politician whose populist rhetoric moved from advocating racially inclusive class solidarity to embracing virulent racist nativism. This trajectory, revelatory of susceptibilities to nativist authoritarianism also prominent in many currents of contemporary global populist politics, raises the question of whether and how literary art and humanities scholarship might work to disentangle justified revolt from reactionary resentments. William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (1942) and The Hamlet (1940) offer diverse models of such efforts.     

南疆青少年犯罪原因探析及预防对策

随着社会的快速发展,我国政府密切关注青少年犯罪并出台了相应的政策来预防青少年犯罪,但青少年犯罪态势依然较为严峻,成为国家治理的一大难题。青少年是国家的未来,加强对青少年犯罪及原因实证研究,并提出针对性对策尤为重要。以新疆南疆青少年为研究对象,通过资料分析法和实证调研法研究发现:影响南疆青少年犯罪的因素包括家庭环境、经济条件、学校教育和社会风气。为此,国家及有关部门可以加大对南疆地区的扶贫力度、创新社会管理制度、鼓励家庭教育和学校教育并重及加强司法机构与社区监督机制,以防控青少年犯罪。     

闽南普度民俗信仰研究

闽南地区的普度民俗信仰是在＂普度众生＂这个广泛的意义中的一个狭隘理解,即施舍、安抚、讨好甚至贿赂孤魂野鬼,以期确保百姓安居,社会稳定。每年的农历七月,闽南民间都要举行多次的祭祀活动,人们习惯于将其称为＂中元普度＂。＂中元普度＂作为闽南地区独具特色的民俗之一,它的形成和演变都体现了闽南民俗既来源于中原文化又保留其闽南本土文化的特点。探讨闽南普度的历史文化渊源,分析闽南普度的现代表现模式,总结闽南普度民俗信仰的社会功能和研究意义,对继承和弘扬中国传统文化,引导民间信仰与社会主义相适应,构建和谐社会有重要的意义。     

No man’s land? A comparative analysis of the EU and Russia’s influence in the Southern Caucasus

The article investigates, through a comparative analysis, the different mechanisms of influence that the EU and Russia are projecting in their shared neighborhood in shaping domestic politics. It focuses on the economic and energy sectors in order to analyze two relevant policies for contrasting EU and Russia’s influence in the case of the Southern Caucasus. Contrary to commonly held opinions, Russian influence is receding in both areas and is a dominant external actor only in Armenia. In contrast, the EU is slowly increasing its presence in the economic area and has become a key player in the energy sector.     

The idea of a Southern Criminology

Southern Criminology is a theoretical perspective that shifts the focus from the state criminal justice process to global inequalities, transnational crime, and postcolonial politics. While recognising the importance of this shift in perspective for a globalising world, this paper asks two difficult questions. Firstly, how easy is it to generalise about whole regions of the world in advancing a political viewpoint? Secondly, is it possible for those in the West to imagine an alternative global criminology, if non-Western societies really do have different cultural values and epistemologies? For example, how should we respond to traditional practices among Indigenous Australians or a Confucian understanding of crime? These questions may make a Southern Criminology sound impossible in the same way as other varieties of critical theory. But this paper is intended to strengthen this emerging movement by acknowledging, and working through, potential difficulties.