Familiarity breeds contempt? Knowledge and understanding of democracy,support for democratization,and global city residence in Russia

Using Russian survey data from 2011 to 2012, this article examines public understanding of and support for democratization in a semi-authoritarian context. When knowledge of democracy is weak, and conceptual understanding of democracy is mixed—as in Russia—traditional measures of democratic support inadequately capture demand for democratization; that is, for more democracy than currently perceived. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Russians who adhere to “textbook” political definitions of democracy are more, not less, likely to advocate democratization. Residence in global cities increases support for democracy and democratization, while education fosters the latter but not the former. Other traditional indicators of middle-class status, such as income and urbanization, lack consistent effects. Based on these results we re-evaluate the mechanism linking modernization and support for democracy in developing, non-democratic societies. Rather than exert social-psychological or normative effects, modernization works primarily by raising exposure to global political discourses that define and promote democratic government.     

近年来我国高句丽考古的主要发现与研究

解放后、尤其是近些年来在我国几代文物考古工作者的辛勤劳动下,我国高句丽考古的发现与研究取得了很大成果,主要集中于都城、山城、墓葬及出土的遗物几方面。通过这些发现和研究,为我们探讨高句丽的社会历史、文化特点及其与周邻地区、尤其与中原地区的联系提供了重要实物资料。     

略论抗战时期宁沪地区城市经济环境的恶化

1937－1945年的日本侵华战争阻碍了中国城市近代化的历程。在中国经济重心的宁沪地区，城市工商经济发生了前所未有的重大变化。由于日寇的侵略和掠夺，该地区城市经济环境趋于恶化。而中国民族工商资本家则于夹缝中求生存，充分利用一切机会和空间寻求发展，形成了日军侵华的不完全毁灭性，为抗战胜利后中国经济的复苏创造了条件。     

关于推进资源型城市可持续发展的建议

该文指出,中国一些资源型城市目前面临产业结构不合理、生态衰退和环境破坏严重、可持续发展发展问题突出等严峻形势.为此,该文结合国内与国外转型发展较好的城市案例,建议中国资源枯竭型城市转型应该依靠科技创新,因时、因地制宜,不同发展周期、不同资源类型的城市转型应选择不同转型路径,同时注意发挥企业在资源型城市发展中的主体作用,并把保障和改善民生作为资源型城市转型的出发点和落脚点.     

Begging and belonging in the city: a semiotic approach

Citizens develop routine spatial enunciations through which they “domesticate” both the intensity of transition and the extension of distance implied by moving across a city and smooth out the frontiers between environments of belonging (e.g. home) and environments of non-belonging (e.g. the streets). Yet urban “accidents” constantly threaten the impermeability of such routine spatial enunciations. Beggars represent, from the point of view of citizens, an instance of such urban “accidents”. The primary goal of urban beggars is to intercept the routine spatial enunciations of citizens, stop them, and convince them to donate part of their money. In order to achieve these goals, beggars develop a series of micro-strategies that can be analyzed as both semiotic practices and urban performances. At the same time, citizens constantly reabsorb these micro-strategies in their routine spatial enunciations, pushing beggars to the elaboration of new strategies, and so on and so forth, in a continuous struggle between the citizens’ desire to protect their feeling of sedentary belonging and the beggars’ need to invade it. From this point of view, routines of sedentary belonging are a manifestation of power. But why are citizens willing to have their routine spatial enunciations through the city be stopped by all sorts of agencies (for instance, the commercial agency of advertisement), whereas they cannot wait to expel beggars from the urban landscape? Perhaps this discrepancy depends on the elimination of the spiritual discourse of charity from the urban arena?     

关于社区工会在城镇职工困难群体社会保障中作用的思考

社区是职工困难群体社会保障的重点地区。社区工会是职工困难群体社会保障的重要力量 ,因而必须要加强社区工会建设。     

实现“全民医保”的瓶颈与基础条件——论新型农村合作医疗与城镇居民基本医疗保险的制度对接

近几年来，城镇非就业人员“失保”成为我国实现“全民医保”的瓶颈。为解决这一问题，我国在2007年启动了城镇居民基本医疗保险试点工作。在人口大规模流动的情况下，解决这一问题的关键是：当前任何社会保障制度的设计都不应受城乡身份的限制，而应保持一种开放的体系，赋予社会保障主体自由选择的权利，为早日实现“全民医保”提供基础条件。     

试论城市经营

城市经营是目前地方政府改革的热点与中心环节,是对城市发展模式的有益探索。分析了城市经营的本质、内涵与特点,并考量了国内外城市经营的现状与模式,从把握城市经营理念,发挥城市规划在城市经营中的调控和引导作用,建立城市资产经营的有效机制,搞好土地资产的经营和管理,建立城市建设市场化运作机制,保证城市基础设施进行有效的商业运营,建立公正、宽松、便利、舒适的城市软环境等七个方面构建了我国城市经营的发展思路。     

毛泽东关于农村包围城市道路的自主创新思想

毛泽东《〈兴国调查〉前言》反映了他倡导调查研究、反对脱离实际的教条主义、官僚主义的求实精神。本文主要从三个问题上的分歧,谈谈毛泽东如何突破"城市中心"模式,提出农村包围城市新模式的自主创新精神,是30年代最应该弘扬的苏区精神。     

中国农民工工资支付保障研究综述

近几年来,拖欠农民工工资的现象相当突出,这个涉及到中国人口绝大多数的农民问题,在全国造成了广泛而深远的影响。只有通过政府、社会、个人的共同努力,健全工资保障机制,才能解决农民工工资拖欠问题,切实保障城市农民工的合法权益。