周恩来人格魅力的时代意义

周恩来的人格魅力有着极为丰富的内涵。他将炽烈的爱国热情和坚定的理想信念化为无私无畏的革命实践,以驾驭局势、知权变通的＂和谐＂理念成功地化解各种矛盾和冲突,以戒慎恐惧之心对待人民赋予的权力,以心中无我的情怀和求真务实的工作作风为人民殚精竭虑,最终赢得＂人心之和＂。在全党上下认真学习贯彻党的十八大精神的现阶段,认真体会学习周恩来的人格魅力,对于广大党员干部切实加强自身修养、不断改进工作作风,具有十分重要的启示和现实意义。     

发展哲学社会科学的方法论——科技生产力是繁荣哲学社会科学的基础支撑

马克思的历史唯物主义，又叫做历史决定论，或生产力决定论，是人类社会发展的一般规律。科技生产力，是人们认识世界和改造世界的第一工具，是人类社会发展的最终决定力量，是发展和繁荣哲学社会科学的基础支撑。我们发展有中国特色社会主义哲学社会科学，需要深入实际调查研究，准确把握国情民力，认知社会发展阶段，兼收并蓄，提高民众科学素养，努力探索马列中国化的新阶段，最终达到促进社会生产力的发展，和与此相匹配的政治思想文化上层建筑的全面进步，促进“五位一体”和谐社会可持续建设。     

Explaining trust in political institutions: Some illustrations from the Baltic states

An important precondition of successful democratic consolidation is voters' confidence that political institutions do not abuse their privileged position of power. Seeking to identify variables that explain trust in political institutions, the paper tests different theories of institutional trust with individual-level survey data from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Building on prior research, two competitive theories—the cultural and performance explanation—are identified and tested, while also controlling for the effects of party preference, ethnicity, and socio-demographic factors. The results show that both cultural and performance variables influence citizens' trust in political institutions. In other words, institutional trust depends on how much the individual trusts other people as well as on how well they believe the economic and the political system to function. Besides cultural and performance variables, most control variables also proved to be significantly associated with institutional trust, confirming the need to include correct control variables in models of institutional trust.     

Plugging the Prisoner Finance Gap: A Critical Analysis of Financial Support for Newly-Released Prisoners

Abstract: The prison discharge grant is intended to meet prisoners' immediate needs on release and assist with living costs prior to their receiving their first benefit payment. It has been widely criticised for providing inadequate financial support, leaving prisoners with a gap in their finances on release. This article discusses the extent to which recent policy developments have been effective in closing this gap. The analysis is based on data from a longitudinal qualitative study of 40 prisoners who were tracked over a six-month period following their release from prison. This research shows that despite new policy initiatives the prisoner finance gap remains.     

浅析农业支持与保护之农业科技推广——以黑龙江省农科院为例谈“院县农业科技合作共建模式”

建立健全农业科技推广服务体系,加强对农民的技术培训,是我国加入世界贸易组织之后实现农业支持与保护目标的必然要求。尽管目前我国在农业科技推广过程中还存在一些问题,但也积累了许多有益的经验。黑龙江省农科院开展的＂院县农业科技合作共建＂方式探索出了一条科技兴农,建设社会主义新农村的有效模式,为科技服务、科技推广、科技帮扶开辟了新思路。     

英美辅警体系研究：比较与借鉴

国内学术界对英美国家的辅警研究有一种泛化倾向,把一些本不属于辅警体系的治安力量纳入其中。事实上,在英国,辅警包括Special Constable和Police Community Support Officer两种,而在美国,辅警指的是Auxiliary Police。目前,我国并没有真正的辅警体系,而警力的严重不足又使基层公安机关离不开辅警的支持,可以借鉴英关模式建立我国的辅警体系,包括治安辅警和交通辅警两种类型。     

服刑人员心理健康状况及其与社会支持、应对方式的关系

服刑人员的心理问题明显比普通人严重;服刑人员获得的总体社会支持显著地低于普通人;服刑人员比普通人的特质应对显著地更积极;服刑人员心理健康状况与领悟社会支持显著负相关;服刑人员心理健康状况与特质应对方式显著正相关;领悟社会支持与特质应对方式显著负相关。有无职业的服刑人员在心理健康状况、应对方式上存在显著差异,不同婚姻状况的服刑人员在领悟社会支持和应对方式上存在显著差异。不同年龄的服刑人员在社会支持上相关显著,不同年龄的服刑人员与积极应对负相关。     

Public support for state surveillance

This study examines citizens’ support for state surveillance, contingent upon factors related to policy design and the context of implementation. While most people want to live in a secure environment, we argue in this study that the support of policies to reach this goal depends on their necessity, extensiveness and reliability. Results from survey experiments in four European countries show that citizens are ready to approve the introduction of far-reaching state surveillance that includes measures of facial recognition and motion detection. Public support is further enhanced if these measures are to be targeted at potential criminals, rather than at all citizens (i.e., policy extensiveness), as well as if a safety threat is salient (i.e., policy necessity). Concerns about data security reduce support (i.e., policy reliability). While these conditions matter for the support of specific policies, they do not influence how trustworthy citizens consider government and other political authorities to be.