Towards universal health coverage in Zambia: impediments and opportunities

Universal health coverage has been given a prominent place in the post-2015 global development agenda, but there are concerns over its feasibility in low- and middle-income countries. This article assesses successive Zambian governments’ efforts to achieve this agenda. We discuss the recent restructuring of health governance to support policies that re-emphasise the social determinants of health and health equity. This includes a new Ministry of Community Development and Mother and Child Health alongside the Ministry of Health. We argue that recent innovations in policy and practice need to be extended to include ministries which focus on economic development.     

改革开放以来乡镇企业的发展特点与政策取向

乡镇企业的兴起、发展及改制是改革开放后中国农村经济社会变迁的一个重要方面。农村经济社会的内在需求,催生并推动着乡镇企业的发展;农村经济社会的外部压力,迫使乡镇企业改制并为统筹城乡发展艰难试水。在农村经济社会的内外因素影响下,乡镇企业的发展受制于国家与农民在政策取向上的一致或分歧。     

新形势下群众参与公共决策的路径探析

在公共决策中，群众既是决策实施的直接受益者，又是决策过程的重要参与者。新形势下充分发挥群众在公共决策中的作用，是党执政理念的具体体现，是新时期做好群众工作的现实要求，是新形势下加强和创新社会管理的迫切需要。充分发挥群众在公共决策中的参与作用，关键是要满足群众的知情权，提高群众的话语权，保障群众的监督权。各级党委政府要注重总结推广经验，健全完善制度机制，全面加强组织引导，努力营造良好的社会氛固。     

Prevention,Crime Control or Cash? Public Preferences Towards Criminal Justice Spending Priorities

We propose and test a new methodology to assess the public’s criminal justice spending priorities. Respondents are asked to trade‐off alternative crime prevention and control policies as well as a potential tax rebate. In a nationally representative sample, we found overwhelming support for increased spending on youth prevention, drug treatment for nonviolent offenders, and police. However, the median respondent would not allocate any new money to building more prisons and would not request a tax rebate if the money were spent on youth prevention, drug treatment, or police. At the margin, we estimate the public would receive $3.07 in perceived value by spending $1.00 on youth prevention; $1.86 in value for every dollar spent on drug treatment; and $1.76 for a dollar spent on police. However, the public would not spend more on prisons, deriving only 71 cents in value for every tax dollar spent.     

公务员满意度影响因素特性分析

从理论上系统地分析和解释公务员满意度问题,有助于改善政府公共管理实践,并促进我国公务员管理制度的发展完善.通过国外公共部门雇员薪酬满意度和工作满意度影响因素的有关研究,公务员薪酬满意度影响因素并不局限于货币薪酬,而是涵盖了薪酬制度与管理等非经济性薪酬因素范畴.同时,公务员工作满意度影响因素表现出鲜明的行政层级差异性.最后,公共部门与私营部门比较分析表明,公务员满意度影响因素与私营部门员工具有显著差异.应以这种差异性与特殊性作为公务员报酬机制设计的理论基础,以私营部门作为参照系,以提高公务员满意度为目标,兼顾外在报酬因素和内在报酬因素,区分不同行政层级设计公务员报酬激励机制.     

论货币政策的程序法规制

基于对货币财产权的保护以及实体法对货币政策规制存在固有缺陷,对货币政策进行程序法规制,是金融调控法治化的重点所在.货币政策的实施要以民主性和透明度为原则,同时货币政策目标制定、货币政策决策以及货币政策执行应该依据相应的法律程序.     

Some Journal Metrics for Forensic Science International: Genetics

Forensic Science International: Genetics, which is the official journal of the International Society for Forensic Genetics, has grown in readership and impact factor since its introduction in 2007. This article reviews some metrics of the 32 issues available as of September 2013.     

Evangelical violence: Western Christianity and the use of force against the Third World

Abstract

Recognising the impact of religion on state action, this article identifies two variables that interact to affect the type and level of violence employed by Western states against Third World targets. First, variation in the degree to which the prominent Christian denominations and organisations within these states view evangelisation as either an individual-level or national-level process – Christian individualism vs Christian nationalism – has determined church support for using violence as a tactic. Second, the level of influence that churches and missionary organisations have over their home states affects the ability of Christian actors to directly impact state actions. Western violence against Third World peoples is expected to be lowest when churches and Christian organisations view evangelisation in primarily individualistic terms and have significant influence over the state. The article examines the relationships between concepts of evangelisation, Christian influence over state policies, and levels of violence against the Third World by examining British, French and German colonialism during the late colonial period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.     

Reflections on law and impact in the light of Brexit

ABSTRACT

The impact agenda in academic research affords rich opportunities – to inform the media, policymakers and the general public; to co-produce research with third sector organisations. In the context of Brexit, the prevailing ignorance of politicians and other stakeholders has been so profound, and the falsehoods that have had popular purchase so baseless, as to make the need for impact and public engagement all the more acute. This is not simply about fact-checking, but about making the case for the very worth of expertise, and reasserting the basic, core scientific values that drive academic work – values that have been trashed by the precepts of a postmodern nihilism, in which all positions are equally (in)valid and only your own gut can be trusted. But challenging these precepts in public arenas has personal and professional costs: significant workload implications, the acquisition of new skills and often a torrent of abuse. As such, this work needs institutional support. Departments need to value it appropriately, to promote equal access to impact opportunities and to confront the discriminatory barriers to (and consequences of) taking up the impact gauntlet. Throughout the Brexit process, expertise and experts have been dismissed and denigrated. The task now is to restore public faith in the value of the pursuit of truth.     

风险社会的刑法的三个基本面相

风险社会的形成使刑法的发展驶上了由传统社会结构与（狭义的）风险社会结构共同塑造的＂双轨道＂,刑法在风险社会展示出了不同于以往的新面相,即刑事政策走向规范化,刑法被定位为安全刑法,刑法规范被塑造为行为规范。