文化碰撞中的选择:中国传统礼仪法文化在近现代的变革

礼仪是中国古代文明的一种符号,礼仪法是中华法文化的一个标志性内容,是华夏礼仪之邦有别于其他民族的显著特征。法律近代化过程中,中国古老文化与西方外来文化的冲突,首先是围绕着礼仪而展开的;文化冲撞后的维新与变法,也将旧礼仪的改造作为要务。传统的礼仪法文化承载着中华民族生生不息的民族精神、民族品格,也凝结着浓重的尊卑等级观念、封建迷信色彩,充斥着铺张、奢华的繁文缛节。取其精华,弃其糟粕,将有助于当今的礼仪文化的建设。     

EMPLOYMENT AID FOR YOUTH AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE: EXTENDING ONE-STOP CAREER CENTERS TO INCLUDE A DIVISION FOR FOSTER CARE YOUTH

Every year thousands of children are discharged from the foster care system and find themselves ill prepared for the responsibility of adulthood. Providing enhanced employment opportunities to both current and former foster care youth will allow them to become economically self-sufficient and therefore have an improved transition from foster care. This Note proposes that states incorporate a foster youth employment program in the one-stop career centers mandated by the Workforce Investment Act. Through this program, foster youth will be provided with the tools they need for success while maintaining control over their own future.     

The Politics of Discontinuity and Its Medium Term Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana

ABSTRACT

It is common knowledge in Ghana that during political transitions, programs set in previous Medium Term Development Plans (MTDP) by prior governments are abandoned without regard for their wider national implications. While the economic impacts of these political transitions have been researched, till date no known studies have taken a holistic look at the relation between political transition and the level of MTDP target achievement. This article attempts to fill this research gap using Ghana as a case and the policy learning and political business cycle literatures as organizing frames. Using annual MTDP data and semi-structured interviews with 25 officials who were involved in the implementation of MDTPs at the national and local government levels, this article finds that aberrations in target achievements across the entire period between 2001 and 2016 were the result of financial constraints and the pressures to adjust to political change.     

转轨时期俄罗斯远东的农业

俄罗斯实行经济转轨以来 ,远东地区农业生产大幅度滑坡 ,农业企业在困境中求生存、求发展 ,步履维艰。俄远东地区农产品生产成本高、需求缺口较大 ,加之特定的资源和经济社会发展条件 ,为发展中俄农业合作提供了良好的机遇。     

我国现代化进程中的多元复合转型特征

中国已进入一个从传统社会向现代社会快速转型的关键时期 ,多元复合转型是其基本特征 ,具体体现在从乡村社会向城市社会快速转型等七个方面。多元复合转型既呈现出不同领域中具体转型的多元特征 ,又表现出各个转型之间相互渗透、相互交织。正确分析和准确把握现代化进程中的多元复合转型特征 ,是科学进行战略选择、迅速提升国家竞争力的前提和基础     

团内民主实践与共青团基层组织制度变迁研究

团内民主必须以团的生存与发展为最高原则。团内民主的空间,受客观的社会、政治环境、团内民主制度状况以及所面临的时代任务的直接影响。改革开放后社会、政治环境的变化为团内民主的复归创造了条件。“联推竞选”是当前团内民主复归的最为典型的措施。     

泰国政党制度向一党独大制过渡

2005年2月泰国的大选结果引起了许多人关注,泰爱泰党单独一个党赢得了议会的绝对多数,第一次组成了一党政府,在泰国政坛第一次形成了一党独大的局面。这是一种偶然现象吗?一党独大制能在泰国巩固下来吗?它对泰国的社会发展究竟起什么作用?本文试图就这些问题作一初步探讨。     

论我国社会转型时期领导职务行为的法律规制

依法治国要求依照宪法和法律的规定来治理国家、管理社会事务,要求领导人的职务行为必须服从于宪法与法律。由于我国历史上长期人治思想的影响,领导职务行为中的“乱作为”与“不作为”现象不仅为数不少,有些性质还相当严重。因此,必须推行领导职务行为过错责任追究制度,并从行为前的“自我控制”、行为中的“监督控制”和行为后的“惩罚矫正”入手,规范领导干部的职务行为,实现我国建设社会主义法治国家的宏伟目标。     

Is China’s rise now stalling?

The variations on power transition theory so widely used to frame analysis of U.S.–China relation tend to assume the inevitability or at least strong probability of China surpassing the United States in economic power if not necessarily military power. In the terminology of social psychology’s attribution theory, China is imputed with the identity of a state that is inevitably rising. The Chinese Communist Party encourages this attribution among Chinese people and foreigners. But China’s economic rise – the foundation of its comprehensive rise – appears to have entered an inflection point in the mid-2010s and may now be stalling. In critical respects, China increasingly resembles the last two countries that ‘attempted’ a globe-level rise: the unsuccessful cases of postwar Japan and the Soviet Union. China’s labor force is shrinking; the country relies excessively on unsustainable debt increases to fuel economic growth; and pollution is seriously harming public health. But even if China’s rise conclusively stalls, it may take quite some time before the Chinese public and outside observers recognize the new reality because of intrinsic biases in the cognitive logic of attributing identities to actors.     

人的安全保护与民主转型 ——基于阿富汗战争的考察

一些国家在由非民主体制向民主体制转型的过程中，往往遭遇各种暴力与冲突。由于人的安全得不到保障，新政府的信誉与合法性因此受到质疑，从而损害了民主转型的前景。阿富汗就是这方面的典型例子，特别是2009年的总统大选表明，恶劣的安全状况已经影响到民主的运作和信誉，这体现了一个困扰许多处于转型过程中的国家的困境：没有人的安全，就没有可靠的民主；转型中的发展中国家很容易在一种失序、动荡的过渡期中反复纠缠，民众的不安全与无效的政府成为一对相互催生的恶瘤。西方的武力干预容易推翻一个旧政权却很难塑造一个强有力的新政权，其造成的权力真空加剧了人的安全与民主转型之间的紧张。民主的价值不容否定，但民主应该在一个稳定的安全基础上去构建，无视人的安全去追求民主，可能反过来有损于真正的民主进程。人的安全视角表明：安全在价值序位上是高于民主的，也是民主生成的前提性条件；有一个能够保证人的安全的有效政府，是国家顺利实现民主转型的关键。