Media Lens Revisited: Television and Socio-Political Changes in China

This paper attempts to understand the development of Chinese television news reporting practice in the reform era and its implications for the socio-political changes in China. Due to the heavy Soviet influence, Chinese television has adopted a TASS style from its very beginning, which places an emphasis on imparting a heavily ideological message and propagating government policies and rules. This practice, however, has been substantially changed during the reform era. Television news reporting in today’s China is moving towards the CNN style in both format and content. These changes reflect a more relaxed socio-political environment in China. Xi Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in Planning, Governance and Globalization Program with the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. Her research on Chinese politics has led to the acceptance of several book chapters and referred journal articles. The author would like to thank Professor Timothy W. Luke and Professor Edward Weisband for their insightful comments on the draft of the paper.     

谈高职院校思想政治课教学的"与时俱进"

新的历史时期,社会对用人有新的要求,高职高专学生也有新的心理及学习特点,所以学校教育中,要求教师能从教学观念、教学内容、教学方法、教学手段几方面做到“与时俱进”,把握时代脉络,紧跟时代步伐,富于创新,敢于创新,将学生培养成社会有用之才。     

关于乡镇行政区划调整的若干思考——以湖北省咸宁市咸安区乡镇撤并为个案

湖北省咸安区为了贯彻党中央、国务院关于减轻农民负担、精简机构、降低管理成本的相关精神,开展了以乡镇撤并为主要内容的行政区划调整工作,取得了显著绩效。但其间也存在着若干问题,如:加剧了乡镇工作人员精减与公共事务增长之间的矛盾、基层民主建设面临一系列挑战、乡镇规模扩大给老百姓办事带来不便等问题。     

信息时代背景下的网络战与国际政治

人类社会已经步入信息时代。互联网络对国际社会带来巨大冲击 ,各国为了维护“信息主权” ,加大了对“软国力”的追求。网络战是信息时代的重要产物 ,它的出现和发展同样对国际政治产生重要影响     

我国乡政村治模式的现实问题及其优化策略

人民公社体制终结以后,乡政村治模式在中国农村凸现出来。这有利于国家基层政权进行有效的行政管理,也有助于村民自己管理自己的事务,调动蕴含在乡村中的巨大能动性,提高基层农村社会经济的运行效率,促进三农问题的稳步解决。但是,当前我国农村实际上的“乡政村治”模式存在各种问题,如职权不清,职能错位与缺位。这会影响我国农村的民主政治建设与社会经济的发展。所以需要在体制、法律层面对当前的“乡政村治”模式进行必要的调整。     

Climbing to the Rooftop,Falling off,yet Landing on One’s Feet (and Finding a Wallet on the Pavement?): The Electoral Fate of the Greek Ecogreens (2004–15)

After a prolonged period of feeble electoral success, the Ecologists Greens (Ecogreens) managed to break into the Greek political landscape by electing one MEP in the 2009 European election. However, that electoral success proved to be quite short-lived, since in the years to follow the Greek Greens faded away. They were divided and faced the threat of political extinction, only to be resuscitated at the national election of 2015 by allying themselves with the winning leftist Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). This article draws on archival and survey data to recount the electoral fate of the Ecologists Greens from their creation to their current place in the Greek parliament and government.     

2014年菲律宾政治、经济与外交形势回顾

2014年,菲律宾国内政治局势因为"猪肉桶案"而引发剧烈震动。众多参议员、众议员和政府高官被爆出贪腐丑闻。阿基诺因为"支出加速方案"被裁定违宪以及通过修宪以实现连任的企图而受到多方指责。经济形势在取得高速增长的同时,也面临着经济成果无法惠及普通民众以及如何实现可持续增长的困境。菲律宾将中菲南海问题提交国际仲裁的程序仍在继续。与美国、日本、越南等国关系的增强进一步刺激了菲律宾敢于继续恶化中菲关系的冲动。     

Reforming government with information technology in South Korea

The South Korean government recently launched 11 major e‐government services after a long period of inter‐ and intra‐ministry politics concerning the allocation of jurisdiction over various e‐government services. This article analyses the politics of e‐government efforts in South Korea. It begins by describing the development of e‐government policy in South Korea for the past two decades, and identifies its four major features as comprehensiveness, fragmentation, the orientation toward operational efficiency and citizen services, and the inclination toward new technological solutions. The article concludes that these features can be attributed to the heavy involvement of the macro political system, its high susceptibility to inputs from experts, and the institutional design of the informatisation subsystem.     

Strategic Culture,Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities,and the Government of India: A Critical Constructivist Perspective

In this article, I use Alastair Johnston's concept of strategic culture re-visited through a critical constructivist perspective to analyze the representations of India's strategic culture and nuclear policy choices. In doing so, I explore how the representational practices of (and the mutually-constitutive relation between) India's nationalist identity/Self and its strategic environment, facilitated via its political leaders’ ideological lenses, have produced shifting representations of India's strategic environment to justify the nation's nuclear policy choices. In exploring this representational linkage between India's strategic environment and its nuclear (in)securities, I am cognizant that anarchy is a challenge facing India's task of nation-making and thus realism serves as a partially valid explanation for understanding the logic proliferation. Yet, my study demonstrates how culturally guided interpretations of what constitutes the Indian Self have divergently re-interpreted India's strategic environment and (in)securities to define the nation's nuclear policy choices.     

Mainstreaming Gender in Politics in Bangladesh: Role of NGOs

‘Gender mainstreaming’ has been regarded as one of the strongest approaches to deal with the issue of equality policy for women. In order to mainstream women in the political process, a number of NGOs have been carrying out different programs in Bangladesh for building awareness among women so that they could opt for participation in the political process. The paper analyzes the role of NGOs in the process of mainstreaming gender in politics in Bangladesh in general and in the enactment of the Local Government (Union Parishad) (Second Amendment) Act of 1997 in particular. Based on empirical data collected through an open-ended structured questionnaire and available secondary data, the study findings reveal that despite having no formal access to the policy process, NGOs augment participation of women in the political process through informal means as is exemplified by their training programs that enhance women's social and economic status.