对邓小平非均衡发展战略思想的认识

非均衡发展战略是邓小平经济发展理论的重要内容。包括“先富带后富” ,“先沿海后内陆” ,“三步走”三个方面内容。非均衡发展战略是实现共同富裕的重要途径     

近代美国西部开发对美国社会的影响

近代美国西部开发开始于 18世纪 70年代 ,持续到 19世纪 90年代 ,在 10 0多年的时间里 ,西部从荒原变成了美国的粮仓、畜牧基地、能源和矿业生产基地 ,西部开发的成功 ,对美国社会产生了重大的影响。在政治上 ,改变了美国政治实力的分布 ,加速了美国民主化的进程 ;在经济上 ,促进了工农业生产的发展 ,完成了美国经济的一体化 ;在文化上重铸了美利坚民族精神 ,改变了美国人的生活方式 ,对美国教育事业和大众传媒的发展具有积极的作用。     

西部大开发与西部非国有经济的发展

西部大开发战略使西部非国有经济的发展获得了许多优势和发展机遇,同时也存在一些主客观的制约因素。只有充分认识和发挥积极因素,摆脱或清除不利因素,西部的私有经济才能迅速发展,国家的西部大开发战略才能获得预想的效果。     

对经济欠发达地区农业结构调整的再探索

搞好农业结构调整是促进经济欠发达地区农村经济发展的有效途径。文章结合当地实际情况对经济欠发达地区的农业结构调整进行了新的探索 :揭示经济欠发达地区农业结构调整面临的问题 ;从深层次上分析形成那些问题的原因 ;提出解决问题的对策性建议。     

推进西部民族地区城市化进程的对策建议

城市化水平的高低是经济发展、社会文明进步的重要标志。我国西部民族地区城市化水平低、布局不合理以及功能不足等问题直接影响着该地区的经济社会的发展。在推进城市化的过程中 ,除了借鉴其他国家和地区的经验、做法以外 ,更重要的是要因地制宜 ,根据西部民族地区地广人稀、居住分散、民族多、文化多元等特点 ,重点选择小城市和小城镇的发展模式 ,大力发展独具民族特色的中小城市和小城镇     

加强民族地区法治建设的几个问题

困扰民族地区改革和发展的问题很多 ,但很重要的一个问题就是如何贯彻落实依法治国方略。     

西部干旱河谷地区生态治理的制度创新

西部干旱河谷生态恶化是自然因素与人为因素共同形成的结果.干旱河谷的治理是一项长期的系统工程,包括生态环境重建和经济协调发展两大方面,生态建设首先需要科学决策和采取正确的技术路线,同时必须同步推进体制变革和政策调整.     

欠发达地区新农村建设与农村公共产品供给

农村公共产品的供给对欠发达地区新农村建设意义重大,而现阶段欠发达地区农村公共产品供给却存在着供给观念滞后、供给主体单一、城乡之间供给的不公平性以及监督管理体制的缺失等突出问题。如何解决这些问题,主要应从转变观念、引入市场机制和社会力量、建立城乡一体化的公共产品供给体系、创新农村行政管理制度等方面入手,以此推动欠发达地区新农村建设的进程。     

Safe Labour Suburbia? The Changing Politics of the Merseyside Suburbs

Over the past twenty‐five years, safe Conservative seats in the affluent Merseyside suburbs have instead become safe Labour seats. This remarkable political transition poses an important puzzle for students of voting behaviour. Analysis of voting patterns since 1979 underlines the exceptional scale of the shift to Labour on Merseyside compared with other metropolitan areas. Yet, substantial swings to Labour in suburban constituencies like Sefton Central and Wirral South in 2015 and 2017 cannot be explained with reference to wider evidence of the party's increased support among younger, more diverse, cosmopolitan populations. It is shown that Labour dominance on Merseyside has occurred via three distinct phases, with the political map of the city‐region turning red, over time, from the core outwards. Explanations rooted in the changing relationship between the city and its suburbs are argued to best explain the emergence of Merseyside as a ‘red conurbation’.     

Regional inequality and institutional trust in Europe

Inequality is a central explanation of political distrust in democracies, but has so far rarely been considered a cause of (dis-)trust towards supranational governance. Moreover, while political scientists have extensively engaged with income inequality, other salient forms of inequality, such as the regional wealth distribution, have been sidelined. These issues point to a more general shortcoming in the literature. Determinants of trust in national and European institutions are often theorized independently, even though empirical studies have demonstrated large interdependence in citizens’ evaluations of national and supranational governance levels. In this paper, we argue that inequality has two salient dimensions: (1) income inequality and (2) regional inequality. Both dimensions are important antecedent causes of European Union (EU) trust, the effects of which are mediated by evaluations of national institutions. On the micro-level, we suggest that inequality decreases a person's trust in national institutions and thereby diminishes the positive effect of national trust on EU trust. On the macro-level, inequality decreases country averages of trust in national institutions. This, however, informs an individual's trust in the EU positively, compensating for the seemingly untrustworthiness of national institutions. Finally, we propose that residing in an economically declining region can depress institutional trust. We find empirical support for our arguments by analysing regional temporal change over four waves of the European Social Survey 2010–2016 with a sample of 209 regions nested in 24 EU member states. We show that changes in a member state's regional inequality have similarly strong effects on trust as changes in the Gini coefficient of income inequality. Applying causal mediation techniques, we can show that the effects of inequality on EU trust are largely mediated through citizens’ evaluations of national institutions. In contrast, residing in an economically declining region directly depresses EU trust, with economically lagging areas turning their back on European governance and resorting to the national level instead. Our findings highlight the relevance of regional inequality for refining our understanding of citizens’ support for Europe's multi-level governance system and the advantages of causal modelling for the analysis of political preferences in a multi-level governance system.