Environmental Stressors and Food Security in China

This article considers the immediate forces influencing China’s food system and food security. By immediate is meant events of the reform period, from the late 1970s to 2008. It begins by asking the question that has preoccupied specialists since the publication of Lester Brown’s Who Will Feed China? in 1995: How much arable land does China have? Is that land area sufficient to insure grain sufficiency? To insure food security? The article focuses on the human pressures on the food production environment, and then treats the effects of socioeconomic change: land, air, and water degradation. The core of the article examines six responses of the state to both perceived and actual environmental stressors: policy restricting arable land conversion, China’s one-child policy, investment in irrigation systems, the South–North Water Diversion Project, large-scale afforestation and reforestation campaigns, and the program to convert marginal agricultural lands to forests and grasslands.     

The Electoral Cycle and Multi-Level Voting in Germany

The aim of this contribution is to analyse whether Land elections may (have) become uncoupled from the federal electoral process, and, if they have, to explore the implications for party competition in Germany. Initially, an overview is presented of the relevant theoretical models that can help unpack the relationship between different electoral arenas. Secondly, how these ideas have been applied to national and sub-national electoral competition in Germany is outlined, before an examination of the 'fit' of the data in both the pre- and post-unification periods. We conclude with reflections on two key features that have regularly surfaced in Gordon Smith's writings: party system change and political stability.     

“全警消防”战略下进一步加强派出所消防监督管理工作的实践与探索

实施“全警消防”战略有利于整合派出所现有警力资源，增强派出所消防监管实力，树立派出所良好形象。因此，派出所应当全面贯彻落实“全警消防”战略的要求，加强消防监督管理工作，更好地维护辖区的公共安全，为城市经济社会发展提供强有力的安全保障。     

科学管理求精细 有效监督促发展——提高公安队伍管理监督精细化水平的思考

公安队伍管理监督精细化,适应了新形势下社会管理创新和公安队伍正规化建设的现实需求。上海公安机关积极探索队伍管理监督精细化举措,取得了初步成效。下一步应坚持目标管理、问题管理、项目管理导向,把握好宣传发动、规则制定、奖惩兑现等环节,全面提升公安队伍管理监督的精细化水平。     

我国乡村干部的腐败问题及其治理对策研究

乡村干部处在农村工作的第一线,是农业生产和农村社会活动的组织者和领导者,是党的路线、方针、政策在农村的宣传者、推动者和执行者,是团结带领农民群众建设社会主义新农村的带头人.近年来中国乡村干部腐败问题越来越严重,在有些地方已成为"常态".腐败案件越来越多,并且呈现逐年上升的趋势,引起了广大农民群众的强烈不满.从分析乡村干部腐败案件入手,揭示了造成乡村干部腐败的五个因素:乡村干部权力观的严重扭曲,手中掌握的权力"含金量"高,权力运行缺乏有效监督,腐败的预期成本低,以及财务管理混乱等.指出了乡村干部腐败的严重性:乡村干部腐败损害了党和政府的形象,侵害了农民群众的切身利益,制约了农村集体经济的发展,破坏了农村的社会稳定.最后,有针对性地提出了治理乡村干部腐败的对策.     

论集体土地所有权的缺陷及其完善措施

本文以农村经济市场化为背景 ,总结和分析了我国现行集体土地所有权存在的缺陷 ,提出了完善集体土地所有权的基本思路以及明确界定农民集体组织、完善土地征用制度并赋予村农民集体土地取回权等具体的集体土地所有权完善措施。     

The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars

ABSTRACT

In this article we introduce the special issue through framing the debate on the role of caste in India’s current land wars. We draw attention to how caste consistently mediates land transfers in present day India by pre-empting, undermining, or fuelling processes of social contestation, as well as the ways in which land claims in turn shape realigned or reimagined caste identities. Based on this, we make three main arguments. The first and most obvious one is that in contemporary conflicts over land, caste matters in evolving ways that deserve attention. Second, we argue that caste and land are recursively linked categories that are produced and reproduced in continuous interaction, even as multi-scalar political economies (re)shape them. And third, that different registers of caste are articulated by different social groups in more or less overt ways as they stake often competing claims to land.     

治国必先治党治党必须从严——学习《中国共产党党内监督条例》有感

党内监督的实质是党从人民的利益出发,按照"治国必先治党,治党必须从严"的要求进行的自我约束和自我完善;理论及实践操作上存在的党内监督的薄弱环节反映了颁布<条例>的紧迫性;求真务实决定党内监督的实际功效.     

浅谈借鉴谏官制度加强人大对环保工作的监督

谏官制度是我国古代一项重要的自下而上监督最高统治者的权力监督体制,古时著名的盛世时期往往伴随着政坛言谏活动蔚然成风。通过探讨唐、宋、明三个朝代的谏官言官制度对政坛权力制约的可行之处,联系当今环保法治中出现的现象,提出自己的思考。