A Comparative Study of Denmark and New Zealand’s National Health Targets

This paper investigates the influence of nationally imposed health targets on current management control practices in New Zealand and Denmark. It reveals how variants of New Public Management (NPM), arising from specific historical socio-political contexts, rise to the challenge of national differences. The study finds that both nations are challenged to ensure data registration procedures produce valid and comparable performance measures. Denmark’s reliance on a single efficiency measure of health sector performance reflects a historic socio-political context that reduces the feasibility of additional measures whereas New Zealand’s context enables the government to impose a more extensive range of health targets.     

Dealing with Austerity: a case of local resilience in Southern Europe

Southern countries are undergoing a severe economic crisis that has renewed debates about the available strategies to economise their public resources. Political leaders have launched a wide range of different strategies aimed at reducing spending. According to generally accepted political discourse, drastic actions should be taken to guarantee economic and financial sustainability in times of austerity. We explore the main measures adopted by Spanish municipalities in order to examine their impact in budgetary terms. First of all, we identify the most frequently implemented mechanisms including organisational structure, public services and operational economic restructuration. After their quantification, we monitor the presence and impact of each set of policies to analyse the relationship between concrete measures and effective economic impact. The effective reduction of budgets is being implemented but data show that local governments are resilient to non-compulsory changes. The ‘government at a distance’ policy pursued by the central state administration has effectively reduced budgets but has not affected the institutional core of Spanish local governments.     

美国工会应对经济危机的政策措施及启示

经济危机给美国工人阶级带来重大影响。美国工会视危机为创新工会工作和发展工会的大好时机,积极从国家层面和地区层面上采取措施积极应对经济危机以保护工人权益,虽然在宏观上收效甚微,但是其在地区层面上采取的策略和方法收效较好,值得我国工会借鉴。     

Liberal Democracy Series I, 1972–1988: Definition, measurement, and trajectories

The purpose of this paper is to provide the definitional and empirical background to the Liberal Democracy Series I Index of democracy that is available in Bollen (1998) but whose rationale has not been published. More specifically, the paper (1) gives a definition of liberal democracy that has guided the formation of this index, (2) describes measures that correspond to this definition, (3) provides a measurement model that links the indicators of democracy to the latent variables that represent the concept, (4) explains the construction of the Liberal Democracy Series I Index, and (5) compares the Series I democracy measure to two other widely used democracy measures in a latent curve model. The Liberal Democracy Series I Index provides a simple unweighted measure of liberal democracy that minimizes the bias in expert ratings, is highly reliable and highly correlated with the latent liberal democracy variable. The evidenced reviewed here suggests that its measurement properties are superior to the Polity and Vanhanen democracy indices with the exception that it is available for a more limited period of years than these latter two.     

我国官员财产申报制度的建立与完善

官员财产申报制度,是国际社会普遍采取的一种约束政府官员行为的制度,实施官员财产申报制度能有效遏制贪污贿赂等职务犯罪行为。鉴于我国现行的财产申报制度存在申报主体和申报范围偏窄、只向上级申报不接受公众监督、可操作性不强等问题及这一制度在我国的发展现状,我们必须从我国建立健全反腐败体系、加强反腐倡廉建设和开展反腐败斗争的实际需要出发,借鉴国外在应对腐败和对官员监督方面的经验,加强对我国的官员财产申报制度的研究。通过试点,争取在全国范围内早日建立并推行官员财产申报制度,让官员财产申报制度成为制度反腐的有力支撑,最终通过立法来完善我国的官员财产申报制度。     

重特大交通事故网络舆情的应对

在网络时代背景下,交通管理部门在处理重特大交通事故时,由于未来得及在思想、政策以及方式上做出相应改变,藉由网络的力量,使得一些重特大交通事故演变成全国,甚至国际关注的事件。重特大交通事故网络舆情的产生与发展有其制度性原因和工具性原因,因而应有相对应的临时处理措施和工具性处理措施。临时性处理措施的本质是坚持"以人为本",实现个案正义;而工具性处理措施的核心是在了解其演变逻辑的基础上,注重网络舆情的搜集与调查,完善政府网络发言人制度以及政府新闻发言人制度。     

分配制度、收入差距与中等收入陷阱的跨越——基于日本的经验

20世纪中叶至80年代,日本逐步完善了以藏富于民为基础,以稳定就业为核心,以最低工资为保障,以收入倍增为目标的初次收入分配制度,并在再分配过程中,形成了统一均衡的财政制度、直接税主导的税收制度与保险特征的社会保障制度,并配套实施分类分级的高额累进制所得税与健全全民性社保体系。通过收入分配制度有效供给,日本创造了"一亿国民皆中产"的平等神话,从而成功地跨越了"中等收入陷阱",跻身于高收入国家行列。日本的成功经验,对于正面临居民收入差距持续扩大与落入"中等收入陷阱"风险加大的中国来说,具有重要启发与借鉴意义。     

逮捕措施适用的实证分析.

逮捕是刑事诉讼中最严厉的强制措施。逮捕措施的适用，既要保证准确有力地打击犯罪，又要保障人权。当前逮捕措施在适用中一些行之有效的做法得到落实，逮捕条件掌握得较好，质量较高。同时也存在着公安机关撤销和变更逮捕措施等问题。应当进一步完善检察机关对公安机关撤销、变更逮捕措施的监督制度和检察机关决定逮捕的制度以及逮捕的执行制度。 关键词：逮捕措施　适用　实证分析     

网络文化对青少年犯罪的影响

网络文化是一种新的文化形态,具有集声音、图像、文字于一体的优势和高效新奇的特点。网络文化对青少年的不良影响主要表现为扭曲青少年的价值观,弱化青少年的道德意识,降低控制青少年犯罪的能力。为了降低网络文化对青少年的不良影响,应当引导青少年树立正确的网络使用意识,加强青少年的思想道德和法制教育,加强对互联网的监管力度,并且加强对网吧的管理。     

成市排水系统运行安全性分析

对邯郸市排水系统运行中存在的安全向题进行分析,提出了解决城市排水运行安全隐患的5条措施.