Citizen perceptions of public management: Hybridisation and post‐new public management in Japan and New Zealand

An older body of research claims variously: a world‐wide transformation from new public management (NPM) to new public governance or post new public management (post‐NPM); a ‘layering’, where new management rhetoric and techniques are layered upon existing ones; or a ‘hybridisation’ synthesised from competing systems. More recent studies, particularly in central and Eastern Europe, suggest a nuanced and context‐specific degree of transformation. Influenced by a growing research interest in citizen perceptions of public management, this study expands this more nuanced approach by surveying local government public management perceptions of 1,140 New Zealand and 3,100 Japanese citizen online survey respondents. Using principal component analysis, we show both New Zealand and Japan exhibit degrees of hybridisation of public management paradigms, with Japan exhibiting a higher degree of eclecticism.     

To Serve and Survey: French Gendarmes as International Police in Peacebuilding Missions in Bosnia and Kosovo

ABSTRACT

This article scrutinises everyday practices of French gendarmes who were sent as international police in UN and NATO missions in Bosnia and Kosovo. Drawing on qualitative material, it argues that their encounters on the ground largely shaped their practices. Rather than melting into the internationalised peacebuilding milieu, gendarmes endeavoured to serve and survey, that is, to establish relationships with civilian populations as a means to collect security-related intelligence for their national government. The sociology of peacebuilding encounters on the ground thus unveils Peaceland’s social divides and invites to take into account the historicity of the peacebuilders’ societies.     

中国刑事简易程序的回顾与展望

我国刑事简易程序经历了1983年非理性的中国式速决程序--“严打程序”、1996年正式刑事简易程序的创建、2012年范围充分扩大了的简易程序、2014年“速裁程序”的试点等四个发展阶段。总结过去中国刑事简易程序的发展规律,我们可以看出将来简易程序的发展方向为：简易程序的形式从单一走向多元化,简易程序的自身特征从从单纯追求效率走向简易程序的正当化,简易程序的改革依据从于法无据走向于法有据。     

安徽经济社会安全发展问题研究

处于社会转型时期的安徽,面临现代化的挑战,社会动态变化性特点越发突出,安全领域出现问题难以避免,而保持经济社会安全发展的意义更加非比寻常。该文通过对安徽省经济社会安全发展的调查研究,了解现状,分析成因,并据此提出应对公共安全危机的政策路径、推进社会管理体制改革创新以及促进安徽经济社会安全发展的保障措施等方面的建议。     

招录体制改革背景下公安院校培养模式存在的问题与突破路径探讨

2008年国家实施基层政法干警招录培养体制改革后,全国各公安院校招录培养试点工作全面开启。作为公安教育培训体系重要组成部分,全面总结、反思试点改革背景下公安院校在培养模式方面存在的不足,有的放矢提出相应的对策与建议,对推进公安院校人才培养模式改革与创新,培养基层公安机关急需的人才．确保我国公安民警招录培养体制改革工作扎实推进意义重大。     

Departmental Restructuring under New Labour

Despite their emphasis on joined up government, which was to be one of the defining features of the New Labour governing project, attempts to enhance policy delivery would also result in major departmental restructuring within each of their three terms in office. This article asks three questions with regard to the New Labour and departmental restructuring. First, from a historical comparative perspective was there a greater degree of departmental restructuring under New Labour than under previous governments? Second, in the case of New Labour what was the motivation for departmental restructuring? Finally, was New Labour characterised by successful departmental restructurings? Utilising select committee material for the views of civil servants and combining this with questionnaire feedback from former New Labour ministers this article seeks to address these questions to assess the record of departmental restructuring in the New Labour era.     

Attitudes to voting rules and electoral system preferences: Evidence from the 1999 and 2003 Scottish Parliament elections

Researchers have paid little attention to the way citizens evaluate different electoral systems. This reflects the limited knowledge citizens are presumed to have about alternative electoral arrangements. However, the establishment of a legislature under new electoral rules creates conditions in which citizens can make more informed judgements. Such a situation occurred with the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, elected under the Additional Member system. Using data collected in 1999 and 2003, we consider Scottish voters’ reactions to the new electoral rules. We examine how voters evaluated various features and outcomes of the rules, the structure of voters’ attitudes, and which features and outcomes of the rules were decisive in shaping overall support for plurality and proportional voting systems.     

推进马克思主义哲学研究之我见

推进马克思主义哲学研究,需摒弃苏联学者的不良治学模式,不能再以"原理"研究为中心;要认真阅读马克思主义经典著作,融会贯通以对马克思主义哲学作出恰当解释;改革学术管理体制,营造良好的治学环境。     

公安机关突发事件应急管理机制创新

社会管理创新是政法工作三项重点工作之一,应急管理是公安机关政府职能的重要组成部分,公安机关应在新形势下运用新的管理理念和管理模式对应急管理进行创新,具体包括：首先在理念上,要从政法思维主导转向意识形态思维主导;其次要加强社会管理体系建设,增强社会管理合力;再次是整合管理资源,改变传统警务模式;最后要加强信息化建设,促进警务工作现代化。     

警务体制机制改革创新是提升社会治安控制能力的必由之路

当前各地进行的警务体制机制改革创新,是在现有警务体系内的除旧布新,主动适应了社会转型时期化解不稳定因素的总体要求,顺应了全球范围内警务改革的潮流,有利于提高警务效率、提升警方的社会管理能力。河南正在深入构建的警务体制机制,是我国目前涉及范围最广、力度最大的一次改革创新,是我国警务变革的重要组成部分,是提升社会治安控制能力的必然选择,其所体现出的基本思想,即“精简机构、扁平指挥、警力下沉、一警多能”对于我国今后的警务改革具有重大的推广意义。