Immeasurable Pleasure and Meaningful Imperfection: Raising Good Citizens in a Bad State

Previous research has shown that a party's election results can depend on visibility and tone in the media. Using daily content data from the major news bulletins and daily survey data from the 2007 national election campaign in Denmark (N = 5,083), our analysis improves upon two central aspects of this earlier research. First, the effects on vote choice of the parties' visibility and tone in the media are studied concurrently in the same model. Second, a distinction is made between the effects of direct exposure to specific news content and the effects of the cumulative information environment created by the media. Overall, it is found that the more visible and the more positive the tone toward a given party is, the more voters are inclined to vote for this party. The effects are primarily effects of the information environment, not effects of direct exposure, though undecided voters are also directly affected. In the discussion, central conditions for the strength of media effects are identified.     

民警思想道德建设新探——民警警示案例的分析与思考

通过对公安民警队伍中出现的警示案例作一些分析,我们可以寻找并剖析这种现象产生的原因,并寻求行之有效的防范对策。民警违法违纪行为的发生,主观内因是主要的,此外还有公安管理机制方面的原因和复杂多变的社会大背景。抓教育,增强自身抵御能力;抓监督,加强执法权力制约;抓长效机制建设,加大规范管理力度。     

国家治理视阈中的“道德承认”原则

中国特色社会主义的依法治国不同于西方资本主义国家的依法治国,其根本区别是:西方资本主义国家的依法治国是以“契约论”为基础,目的是为了保护个体私有财产不受侵犯.而中国特色社会主义的依法治国是立足于公有制经济基础,超越了“资产阶级法权狭隘眼界”,把“道德承认”作为国家治理视阈中的价值原则.“以德治国”具有内在客观性,而“依...     

Political opposition and the challenges of a dominant party system: The democratic alliance in South Africa

The African National Congress enjoys a position of leviathan-like dominance in South Africa. In official opposition stands the Democratic Alliance whose support has risen considerably since South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. The white electorate strongly favours the party over its main rival, the Freedom Front Plus. The coloured community in the Western Cape has also given the Democratic Alliance its support. Although the party has done well in attracting the support of ethnic minority groups it has not been so successful among the African electorate. In accounting for the success of the Democratic Alliance this article considers three themes: firstly, the reasons why white voters, especially Afrikaners, shifted their support to the party; secondly, the brand of South African patriotism now used by the party to promote the primacy of a non-racial South African identity; and finally, the party's understanding of political opposition and the obstacles that exist to it making further electoral progress.     

遵循学生心理发展规律改革德育的途径和方法

提高道德教育的效果是我们目前面临的一个重要的议题,而德育实施的效果在一定程度上与德育的途径和方法密不可分。遵循学生心理发展规律、研究德育的途径和方法非常必要。为此,德育途径应立足于“生活化”;德育途径要立足于自然化和情境化;德育方法必须根据个体差异,坚持分层、分类指导;德育方法必须注重情感体验;倡导对话式的道德教育模式,搭建师生交流的平台。     

论行政良心的基本问题

加强行政伦理建设必须研究行政良心的基本问题。行政良心是公务员对自己职业行为善恶性质的心理评价机制,其评价对象不仅仅是行政行为的实际效果,也包括行为的主观动机所体现着的行政品德。行政良心具有促使公务员产生职业道德行为,形成行政道德人格的重要功能。     

网络时代条件下对高校德育工作全面创新的思考

网络在大学生德育工作方面发挥积极作用的同时,也有着诸多的负面效应。高校应当充分利用网络时代所带来的机遇和条件,让德育工作占领网络阵地,为促进大学生全面发展创造有利条件。     

Emotional Intuitions and Moral Play

Brosnan's research on chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys provides invaluable clues to unlocking the complex nature of human morality. Elaborating upon her claims, we explore the role of emotions in basic social interactions, social regulation processes, and morality, all of which may be crucial to both human and nonhuman communities. We then turn to a conceptualization of teasing and play as forums for negotiating norms and the boundaries of acceptable behavior, and focus on the role of emotions in assessing the moral character of others. Finally, we consider points of convergence and departure between human responses to relative deprivation and those observed by Brosnan in primates. We conclude that work such as Brosnan's paves the way for fruitful collaborations between scholars of morality from diverse fields.     

The Presidential and Parliamentary Elections of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela: Change and Continuity (1998–2000)

The paper examines to what extent electoral behaviour in Venezuela, as it appeared in the elections of 1998 and 2000, is different from that observed between 1958 and 1988. The paper reaches the conclusion that given the decline in party identification (dealignment), the short-term variables specific to each election, in particular the attitude towards government performance and personalities, have grown in weight vis-à-vis the structural factors (party identification, institutions, long-standing political predispositions). However, the latter were still relevant and important in the 1998 and 2000 elections and it is very likely they will carry on as such for the future. It is also concluded that, even though the party system has become unstable due to the decline in identification with the traditional government parties, new stabilising factors seem to have appeared and should be taken into account. These are ideology and negative party identification.     

警察道德教育方法问题探究

在构建社会主义和谐社会的历史进程中,既往警察道德教育因遭遇社会取向和个体取向变化的挑战而难尽人意,特别是德育方法因乏其科学性、合理性、时代性而常常捉襟见肘,致使道德教育成效不佳。本文以社会转型时期警察院校道德教育现状为基点,通过剖析现行德育方法透射出的问题及其成因,以期对德育方法论有新的诠释,为改进警察道德教育、促进警察教育科学化提供借鉴。