The Politics of Local Policy-Making in Urban Bangladesh: The Case of Rajshahi City Corporation

Some of the contemporary writings provide a different outlook in adopting institutional analysis by claiming that society-rooted politics is foremost in shaping the third world's political institutions. This paper, drawing on an empirical study, puts special emphasis on understanding the nature of society rooted politics in designing the local government system in Bangladesh and how it has shaped local policy-making. By focusing on the policy-making of a municipal corporation, this paper identifies the actors and factors and their roles in the urban local governance process in Bangladesh.     

Particular Rights and Absolute Wrongs: Giorgio Agamben on Life and Politics

Over the past decade, as human rights discourses have increasingly served to legitimize state militarism, a growing number of thinkers have sought to engage critically with the human rights project and its anthropological foundations. Amongst these thinkers, Giorgio Agamben’s account of rights is possibly the most damning: human rights declarations, he argues, are biopolitical mechanisms that serve to inscribe life within the order of the nation state, and provide an earthly foundation for a sovereign power that is taking on a form redolent of the concentration camp. In this paper, I will examine Agamben’s account of human rights declarations, which he sees as central to the modern collapse of the distinction between life and politics that had typified classical politics. I will then turn to the critique of Agamben offered by Jacques Ranciere, who suggests that Agamben’s rejection of rights discourses is consequent to his adoption of Hannah Arendt’s belief that, in order to establish a realm of freedom, the political realm must be premised on the expulsion of natural life. In contrast to Ranciere, I will argue that far from sharing the position of those thinkers, like Arendt, who seek to respond to the modern erosion of the borders between politics and life by resurrecting earlier forms of separation, Agamben sees the collapse of this border as the condition of possibility of a new, non-juridical politics.

催生与谨慎：社区矫正路径探寻--宽严相济刑事政策理论与实践研究之四

尊崇罪刑法定的刚性原则与刑法防卫社会的积极功能,彰显刑法的谦抑性和最后手段性,此乃宽严相济刑事政策之意蕴。社区矫正秉承现代刑罚理念,既是契合宽严相济刑事政策的主旨,又是践行该政策的佳径。积极催生合理制度、谨慎配置行刑资源、理性探寻社区矫正路径是当下刑罚执行制度改革及社会稳定发展之急需。     

国家政治与泉州回民的穆斯林认同

泉州回民在中国回民的社会史上占有特殊的地位.与全国其他地方的回族不同,泉州回民的西亚穆斯林先入主要通过海路而来,其穆斯林认同在历史上的起伏与泉州作为中古时期的重要国际贸易口岸密切相关,同时也与理学在福建的高度发展有一定的关系;随着泉州港的式微,泉州回民渐渐地失去了原有的穆斯林认同.新中国成立之后的国家政治需要有少数民族的参与,泉州的地方历史文化资源引起了地方政府的重视,泉州的回民也因此进入了国家的认同政治过程.对泉州回族的历史过程和他们近年来的穆斯林认同建构运动的分析与讨论支持了这样的一个假设:如果没有政府的民族政策,中国的民族形貌将与人们今日之所见全然不同.     

Charities and Political Campaigning: The Impact of Risk-Based Regulation

This article examines the effects of the Charity Commission’s implementation of risk-based regulation on the political campaigning activities of charities. In doing so, it draws on the findings of a recent empirical study which explored charity representatives’ awareness of relevant law and regulation and their perceptions of the obstacles they faced in their campaigning work. The article begins with a brief exploration of the emergence of risk-based approaches to regulation, followed by consideration of the legal and regulatory requirements for risk management by charities. Moving to its main focus of political campaigning, the article notes the unique legal issues faced by charities in campaigning work. It provides a comparative evaluation of the 2004 and 2008 versions of Charity Commission guidance CC9 on campaigning and political activity by charities (CC9) in terms of their approach to legal compliance, their formulation of the specific risks of campaigning and their approach to the process of risk management itself. In addition, the article considers the relevance to campaigning activity of the Commission’s current plans for an ‘enhanced approach’ to risk in its compliance work. The article concludes by considering the potential impacts on charitable campaigning of both the Commission’s overall approach to campaigning and its perceived risks, and of further entrenchment of risk principles in charity regulation.

日本战略走向与中日关系前景

进入新世纪,伴随日本政治的右倾化,日本对外战略也发生着深刻的变化。2005年以来小泉内阁加紧推行“右倾化大国路线”,造成日本同中国等亚洲邻国关系更趋恶化。中日关系的改善还需两国付出长期不懈的共同努力。     

政治与行政两分理论的跨文化对话

政治与行政二分法是西方国家行政学中一个有经久影响力和讨论价值的理论,被专家们认为是行政管理实践的核心要点。本文运用这一理论的基本原理来考察中国的国家管理实践,揭示其分析价值,沟通东西方管理思想的对话。笔者提出,如果理解正确、运用恰当,西方政治与行政两分的讨论可以为中国进一步的行政和公共政策改革提供十分有益的视角和思路,即：注重政治与行政的专业化分工、加强独立问责、以民主政治和精细化管理的精神改革中国的政治决策程序和提高政府机关的行政能力,综合提高现代国家治理能力。     

Budgetary Politics and Veto Players

In this article we examine whether and how the policy‐oriented coalition building and the gridlock model of legislative choice explain changes in the allocation of German budgetary items between 1961 and 1994. The policy‐oriented coalition‐building approach suggests that only policy‐connected budgetary actors can make changes in the budgetary composition, while the location of the status quo is essential for budgetary modifications according to the gridlock model. We also draw the attention to the identification of the set of relevant budgetary veto players and their preferences by distinguishing between models of the government, the political parties of the Bundestag, and the two of them. We test the predictive power of these approaches and conceptions in a competitive manner and control for macroeconomic and other political factors that might influence changes in the budgetary allocation. Our findings show that the gridlock model better explains budgetary changes, and that the government is responsible for decreasing, but the political parties of the Bundestag majority are decisive for increasing the size of budgetary items. We conclude that identifying the relevant veto players and using these more sophisticated approaches on budgetary decision making provide significant insights into the political reasons for changing the allocation of the German budget.     

试论探究式教学法在高校政治理论课中的探索

探究式教学模式是一种以“启发引导、问题探究”为主要特征的教学模式。探究武的教学法很适合对于在教学内容和教学方法上都要求不断求新的政治理论课。本文以高校政治理论课《思想品德修养与法律基础》的教学实践为例，讨论了探究式教学法在高校政治理论课中的理性思考与实际操作。     

司法改革与公平正义——2014’辽宁政法理论年会论文综述

2014’辽宁政法理论年会以＂司法改革与公平正义＂为主题,组织辽宁省政法系统的法律工作者就司法体制改革、法律监督、中国梦与法制建设、量刑规范化、政法队伍建设等多个论题展开了深入研讨,展示了辽宁省政法系统理论研究的最新成果。