西北少数民族地区公民教育地方课程开发探析

我国西北少数民族地区多种文化、宗教共存,如何培养具有多元文化意识、能够在多元文化环境中和谐共处、共存的公民问题受到重视。针对西北少数民族地区公民教育的特殊需求,可以通过具有区域特点的地方课程开发实现。     

论少数民族地区建设社会主义新农村的重大意义

中国是一个统一的多民族国家．建设少数民族地区新农村是社会主义新农村建设的重要组成部分,这不仅是实现全面建设小康社会宏伟目标和构建社会主义和谐社会的基本要求．也是实现民族地区农村经济与生态环境和谐发展、传承和发展民族传统文化、巩固和发展社会主义民族关系的必然要求。     

民主的合宪性——德沃金的宪政思想研究

虽然民主是一种被现代各国普遍接受的制度,但是民主的含义并不清楚.德沃金认为要实现民主的合宪性,切实保护个人权利,必须对多数至上的民主增加一些条件限制,他提出了"民主的合宪性概念",设计了"依赖式民主观"和"合伙制民主观",主张民主通过司法实现宪政化.     

Ethnicity as political cleavage: the political agenda of the Polish national minority in Lithuania

This article examines the role of ethnicity in the formation of political cleavage and is based on the analysis of the political agenda of the Polish national minority in Lithuania after the re-establishment of the independent state in 1990. It analyzes the political performance of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL), an ethnic-based “niche” political party that tends to keep a monopoly over the representation of interests of the Polish minority in Lithuania and collects a vast majority of the votes of citizens of Polish origin. The article considers how specific in comparison to the titular nation the interests of the Polish national minority are, and how different in comparison to the political agendas of other political parties the political agenda of the EAPL is.     

Hung Parliaments and the Challenges for Westminster and Whitehall: How to Make Minority and Multiparty Governance Work (with Commentaries by Turnbull,Beith, Evans and Crick)

The return of a hung parliament at the 2010 general election is a serious possibility. But due to Westminster's limited recent experience of parliaments under ‘no overall control’ there is little institutional memory in Whitehall or Westminster, and even less public understanding, of what the implications would be. This article sets out to analyse the principal challenges that would be faced by government, opposition, parliament and the media in the event of a hung parliament. Drawing on experience from Canada, New Zealand and Scotland, we discuss the difficulties that may arise during the immediate government formation process and in the course of making minority or multiparty governance work on an ongoing basis. We conclude that a hung parliament need not undermine political stability or effective governance, but that all actors would need to adapt their behaviour and should therefore prepare carefully for this eventuality.     

浅论民族地区公共管理中的公民参与

公民参与作为社会主义民主政治的一种实现形式,其重要性日益引起人们的重视。然而我国民族地区由于其本身的特殊性,公共管理中的公民参与明显落后于其他地区。目前民族地区公共管理中的公民参与制度还不完善、参与意识不强、参与渠道不畅、民主观念并未深入人心等问题特别突出。要提高民族地区公共管理中的公民参与水平,必须加快民族地区公民思想观念的转变,扩宽公民参与的渠道、途径和方式,提高公民的文化素质,并制定和完善民族地区公民参与公共管理的制度。     

Beneath the Surface

Abstract

A rural county with a high Hispanic population showed small disproportionate minority contact (citation or arrest) in initial analysis of federally required Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) studies, but closer examination of a random sample of all juveniles arrested in 2000 showed that a subtle, but significant disparity still existed when a more detailed examination was conducted. While overt discrimination did not appear to be extreme, stereotypes still negatively influenced Hispanic/Law Enforcement relations at various levels, and Hispanics were still over-represented in contacts and confinement. Three areas were examined to explain/inform these lingering disparity issues: Cultural, Economic and Structural factors.     

少数民族学生教育管理工作实证分析与应对举措——以F省N大学为例

内地高校新疆少数民族大学生的教育管理存在一些困难。虽然高校不断探索新的途径,但由于困境的特殊性,很难从根本上解决。学生层面,在生活、语言和心理、社会交往和学业表现等方面都存在诸多困难。教育管理层面,内地高校的教育和管理者对新疆的地域条件、社会条件、人文、民俗等缺乏全面了解,在一定程度上存在无知、不敢管、盲目管理等问题。作为一个普遍存在的问题,已经在高校教育管理者中形成共识。F省N大学从新疆少数民族招生,在教育管理方面积累了许多宝贵经验,取得了良好的成绩。与其他高校相比,教育管理面临的困难和实施的策略既有共性问题,也有个性问题。针对存在的问题,N大学仍在积极探索有效的途径。     

Hung Parliaments and the Need for Clearer Rules of Government Formation

The general elections of 2017 and 2010 produced hung parliaments in which no single party could command an overall majority; in May 2015 the UK only narrowly avoided that outcome. When a parliament is hung, more than one potential government can be viable, and the constitutional rules that determine who has the first right to form the government can thus have a decisive influence on which government forms. In the past, the UK has applied several potentially contradictory rules (based on conventions and principles), which do not all follow an equally democratic logic. This status quo is problematic because it can generate political controversy and uncertainty, in addition to jeopardising the Monarch's role in the government formation process. A reform that enables parliament to elect the leader who will be tasked with the formation of the next government would resolve these problems and provide constitutional clarity.     

Fairness and equal recognition

An important contribution of Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition is the conception of neutrality that grounds his defence of minority cultural rights. Built in to his conception of neutrality of treatment is a notion of ‘fairness’ whose effect is to provide an upfront, across the board limitation on the demands cultural minorities may legitimately make on the rest of society. There must be limits on the duty to accommodate, but it obscures more than it illuminates to build this into the content of the right to equal recognition itself. We see more clearly what is at stake in these conflicts by articulating the value of self-determination independently and taking account of necessary limits to its satisfaction as part of a second-stage analysis of what duties may be claimed and against whom. Familiar principles of discrimination law exemplify this alternative model. This presents the interest in self-determination more robustly, while acknowledging that the claims of duty arising out of it are defeasible. The result is a more flexible and nuanced exploration of the complex moral issues involved when fundamental interests clash.