西方国家主流媒体“中国国防透明度”报道研究

近年来,西方国家主流媒体关于"中国国防透明度"的新闻报道及认可程度并未因为中国国防透明度的显著提升而出现"正向相关"。通过对相关数据的采集和分析可以看出,西方国家主流媒体对中国国防透明度的认可程度与其国家同中国的政治友好程度"正向相关",而与西方国家主流媒体的媒体实力"反向相关"。西方国家主流媒体对中国国防透明度的新闻报道主要受到价值观念、刻板印象和国家利益等因素的影响,使其对中国国防透明度的新闻报道呈现一种层次性,不同类别的国家对中国国防透明度的评判态度明显不一致。因此,中国国防透明度的建构迫切需要与国际传播紧密结合起来,即实现自我塑造与他者建构的契合。     

台湾社会阶层关系现状及其对政局的影响

近年来台湾的社会阶层结构和阶层关系出现了一些新变化。当前台湾社会阶层关系的基本特征表现为:"结构化"特征最为明显,"中产化"特征并未改变,"碎片化"特征越来越明显,尚未发展到"断裂化"的程度。上个世纪90年代以来经济的恶化,制度和政策的不合理,以及政治上的蓝绿恶斗,都是影响到台湾社会关系复杂化的主要因素。而社会阶层关系会对台湾政治体系和政治过程、选举政治生态和政党的政策走向、民众的政治意识、政治倾向和政治参与都产生一定的影响。     

建国前党的少数民族思想政治教育工作述论

思想政治教育对于实现党的民族政策、纲领方式发挥着不可或缺的重要作用。党在革命过程中积累了丰富的思想政治教育的经验,只有在吸收优秀成果的基础上,才能对我们当前少数民族思想政治工作的开展与实施产生重要的促进作用。从这个层面而言,回顾和总结党在各时期的少数民族思想政治教育过程对我们当前的工作有着重大的指导意义。     

中产阶层政治动向研究述评

中国中产阶层政治动向的研究,大体上存在通过问卷和访谈观察中产阶层民主意识和研究中产阶层集体性政治活动两种方法。在中产阶层的政治态度上,学界存在三种观点:总体保守、比较激进、缺乏统一性;在政治功能上,也存在中产阶级是社会政治稳定的基础、社会变革的基础、社会发展中的异化力量三种不同结论。当前中产阶层政治动向的研究应当在研究对象上重视边缘中产阶层的政治动向;在研究问题上关注中间阶层政治态度及其社会政治功能是否发生演化;在研究领域上重点关注网络时代公共事件中中产阶层的政治参与。     

The electoral consequences of voter ignorance

A great deal of research has suggested that scholarly and popular concerns about low levels of citizen political knowledge are exaggerated. One implication of that research is that political history would have unfolded just as it did even if electorates had been more politically informed. This paper presents evidence that counters these claims, showing an infusion of electorally relevant information in twenty-seven democracies would have likely led to a lot of vote “switching”, ultimately changing the composition of many governments. The paper also directly and systematically examines what we might call the “enlightened natural constituency” hypothesis, which expects lower-income citizens to vote disproportionately for left parties once armed with more political knowledge. While the basic argument about how political ignorance disproportionately affects the left’s natural constituency is not new, the hypothesis has thus far not been tested. The analysis provides provisional support for the hypothesis.     

Voting at 16: Turnout and the quality of vote choice

Critics of giving citizens under 18 the right to vote argue that such teenagers lack the ability and motivation to participate effectively in elections. If this argument is true, lowering the voting age would have negative consequences for the quality of democracy. We test the argument using survey data from Austria, the only European country with a voting age of 16 in nation-wide elections. While the turnout levels of young people under 18 are relatively low, their failure to vote cannot be explained by a lower ability or motivation to participate. In addition, the quality of these citizens' choices is similar to that of older voters, so they do cast votes in ways that enable their interests to be represented equally well. These results are encouraging for supporters of a lower voting age.     

Political stability,transition and conflict: Tajikistan compared with Georgia

Tajikistan and Georgia, in Central Asia and the South Caucasus respectively, are both small Soviet successor states with a recent history of political volatility and instability until the mid-2000s. Nevertheless, these independent countries have eventually developed diverging policies, notably with regard to their political alliances and world orientations. The Tajikistani Civil War resembles in many ways that of the Chechen conflict and also helps us understand the Syrian conflict. Similar to Georgia, Tajikistan had experienced the collapse of state institutions more intensely than other Soviet republics. Although contingent and actor-driven factors may have influenced the outcome, the influence of structural factors has been far greater than those agency-driven factors. This review article discusses, and tries to offer understanding and explanations for, political stability, transition and conflict in these two countries.     

中国特色政党制度与国家软实力建设研究．

在当前全球化浪潮、信息革命和网络时代的大潮下，软实力建设受到越来越多国家的重视，中国特色政党制度不仅蕴涵着巨大的软实力潜力和优势，是国家软实力的重要组成部分，而且对国家软实力的建设具有重要意义。新世纪新阶段面对世情、国情、党情的深刻变化，我们只有继续坚持和完善中国特色政党制度，才能保持社会稳定和发展，增强国家软实力。     

高校“中国近现代史纲要”课程教学设计研究的若干思考

加强思想政治理论课教学设计研究是转变教学思路,改进教学策略与方法,从整体上提高思政课教学实效性的重要手段.“中国近现代史纲要”课也要从增强教学实效性入手,加强课程教学设计研究,并在教学目标、教学重点难点、教学方法和教学过程设计等方面抓好着力点.     

The use of ‘privileges’ in political discourse in the early modern Low Countries

This article examines why the privileges occupied such a prominent place in Dutch rebel propaganda from the 1560s. It then considers whether these continued to be so highly regarded after the United Provinces gave up the search for a princely overlord to succeed Philip II in the late 1580s. It concludes by suggesting that with the emergence of provincial sovereignty, the privileges gradually lost their significance as one of the bastions of Dutch freedom.