T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land in Lithuanian translation

Small states, argued Peter Katzenstein a quarter of a century ago, were different. Faced with the fluctuations of world markets, they adopt democratic corporatism and domestic compensation, thus ensuring political legitimacy and successful economic adjustment. The Baltic countries are an interesting case study for this framework, because in many ways they are “smaller” than the seven countries analyzed by Katzenstein. This article finds that, on a broader level, Katzenstein’s framework is very helpful in highlighting the key developments in the Baltic countries. On the other hand, the specific causal mechanism that can be drawn from this framework running from smallness, to democratic corporatism, to political legitimacy, as well as domestic compensation, has not developed in the Baltics.     

论民主党派在我国协商民主中的地位及其实现

协商民主是对古典民主与代议民主的继承和超越。中国共产党领导的多党合作制度和人民政治协商制度是我国实现协商民主的重要机制和组织形式。民主党派可以通过参政议政和民主监督,成为我国协商民主的中坚力量之一。     

列宁时期的党内民主是如何认识和发展的

马克思、恩格斯的建党原则一直是主张建立民主制，反对集中制；列宁早期创建“民主的集中制”，提出集中制必须建立在民主之上；在战争时期“民主的集中制”发展为极端集中制的党国一体制；战争结束和平开始时列宁提出党内民主初步设想。     

浅谈改革和加强国有控股企业的工会工作

随着国企改革的不断深入 ,国有控股企业的发展 ,形成了我国市场经济建设中的一种新的特有的经济形式。这种经济形式的产生使工会组织面临的形势发生了变化 ,工会工作由此也面临着严峻的挑战。     

新形势下践行党的群众路线的长效性探究——以民主政治为分析视角

群众路线是党的工作的生命线,也是党的根本政治路线和根本组织路线,一直作为党的优良传统作风而不断继承和创新。但从党的历史进程来看,群众路线的践行往往受到不良工作作风和不正确的工作方法等主观因素的干扰,究其根源,在于群众路线的运行机制一直缺乏一种自下而上的动力机制和民主保障机制。通过发展人民民主,保障人民主体地位,确定人民当家作主的权利,无疑会为新形势下践行群众路线提供长效性运作的内在动力。     

中国特色社会主义渐进式民主及其路径选择

中国特色社会主义渐进式民主是基于民主发展规律和我国历史国情的战略选择，其中执政党的领导、市场经济的发展和民主化浪潮的兴起是其蓬勃发展的主要推动力量，以党内民主带动人民民主，以基层民主推进上层民主，以选举民主补充协商民主是其稳步实现的重要路径。在党的十八大胜利召开的历史背景下，重新审视这一具有中国特色的民主发展道路，对于我们继往开来推进中国民主政治建设具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

Change and Continuity in the European Union's Political Conditionality: Aims,Approach, and Priorities

The EU's political conditionality has acquired increasing importance with successive enlargements; this also goes for the period since 2004 compared with that before. The focus here is on change and continuity in conditionality policy with respect to its aims, approach, and priorities. The article presents and applies a three-dimensional analysis concerning the challenge to, the process of, and the management of that policy. Given the need for assessing it in a broad and dynamic context, the discussion revolves around three relationships: between conditionality and post-communist democratization; between conditionality and the enlargement process; and between conditionality and the EU itself in terms of institutional responsibility for enlargement and conditionality matters. This explains how the policy since 2004 has been driven by four factors: more difficult democratization cases from the West Balkans; lessons from the earlier 2004 enlargement involving East–Central Europe; the policy outlook of Commissioner Olli Rehn; and ‘enlargement fatigue’ and stronger pressures from EU actors other than the Commission. As a result, political conditionality has become broader in its scope, much tighter in its procedures, and less easy to control within a less enlargement-friendly environment in the EU and against less certainty about enlargement prospects.     

地方公共产品供给中的民主决策——以桂林市“两江四湖”工程为分析背景

公共产品的特性决定了市场供给的稀缺，因而只能依靠政府出面组织生产和供应才有可能得以解决。面对单一利益主体的格局被多元化、多层次利益主体的新格局所取代，政府必须关注公民的利益诉求，实现民主决策尤其重要。桂林市“两江四湖”工程在决策过程中，形成了政府决策主导、专家决策咨询和社会公众参与决策的联合民主决策模式，为地方政府在提供公共产品的过程中实现民主决策提供了有益的启示。     

加强政协民主监督 推进干部执行力建设

执行力是政府工作的生命力。当前,干部执行力不强,直接影响到组织决策和目标的实现,党和国家政策的落实,关系到党的事业的成效。民主监督是政协的基本职债,政协对干部执行力的监督是题中之义。要加强政协的民主监督,推进干部执行力的建设。     

论叶剑英对党的民主集中制思想的理论贡献

叶剑英关于党的民主集中制思想的理论贡献主要体现在:一是以史为鉴,高度重视民主集中制的战略地位;二是深刻阐明民主集中制的科学内涵;三是全面阐述民主集中制的基本内容,包括反对个人崇拜,实行集体领导,开展批评与自我批评,严肃党规、党法、党纪,维护党的集中统一,加强民主集中制制度化、规范化建设。