Building Green: Local Political Leadership Addressing Climate Change

Municipal agreements have been instrumental in communicating commitment to addressing climate change at the local level. However, what is the practical implication of this potentially symbolic decision? This study examines the power of mayoral participation in climate change agreements in driving the proliferation of sustainable or “green” building in a city as a mechanism to reach its climate change goals. In addition, mayors can localize what is otherwise a public good by framing green buildings as having other tangible impacts on a community. We analyze the impact of political leadership on green building projects in 591 cities in 50 U.S. states, controlling for a variety of city‐ and state‐level variables. Hierarchical models indicate that mayoral leadership in climate change policy fosters green building, while state‐level predictors are not as important as city policy in creating green buildings. Our research concludes that local governments can be a very effective venue in addressing broad climate change goals.     

文化产业发展与社会结构变迁的关系——基于西方社会发展进程的分析

文化产业在西方社会的产生与这些国家的经济发展和工业化进程关系密切。机械化的规模生产应用到文化领域催生了现代文化工业。大众文化娱乐形式的出现让普通大众也可便利地接触文化艺术这个曾经只属于少数人的特权领域,西方社会进入大众文化消费时代。大众文化内嵌着物质主义的实用价值观,是一种打破雅俗之分的文化。进入后工业社会,西方国家向着重视自我价值实现的后物质主义价值观转变,同时信息技术的应用使得定制化服务和灵活生产成为可能,文化产业作为高经济附加值服务行业以及以内容为核心的知识经济代表性领域再次迸发活力。文化产业发展与西方社会从工业化到信息化的社会变迁呈现出一种相互作用的同构关系,这种互动关系主要通过文化生产和文化生活（文化实践活动、文化价值观念）两个方面的基本机制来实现。     

浅析百越文化特征中的环境因素

本文通过对百越饮食习俗、交通方式、建筑风格、断法文身、崖葬习俗、蛇图腾等独具特色的文化特征与其环境之间关系的分析,揭示了环境因素在民族文化特征形成过程中具有不可估量的重要作用。     

清代云南汉族移民迁徙模式的转变及其对云南开发进程与文化交流的影响

清代内地与云南的经济互补性的实现使云南汉族移民的迁徙模式由强制性向自发性转变。迁徙模式的转变加速了清代云南的开发进程。这主要体现为开发进程由平坝城镇向山区的推进,同时,随着汉移民流动性、多圈层性的形成,文化的传播与交流打破了由于地理环境的隔离或由于从事定居农业而在封闭性地域发展格局中形成的各民族群体分割聚居的封闭性,在更广阔的范围内实现汉族与少数民族的交流。     

Breaking up a partnership to build a competitive market in Denmark’s ambulance service: how can studies of contract reversals learn from the sociology of markets?

ABSTRACT

paper analyses a case of contract reversal in the market for ambulance services. The paper suggests that the sociology of markets-literature provides insights into market institutions of importance to relations between government and contractors that will benefit contracting out theory. Building on document analysis and interviews with 19 key stakeholders, it is demonstrated how a regional government in Denmark tried to wrestle the service provision from a long-time private provider and create a competitive market, only to discover that the implementation of the new contract was beset by obstacles largely stemming from informal norms in the market and attempts of the existing provider to hamper market entry for challenger firms. The result was a contract reversal: from private provision to government-provided service delivery. The paper contributes to the contracting out literature by providing a more elaborate understanding of the institutional conditions under which contract reversals can take place.     

The impact of the wilson administration on economic crime rates

Previous research, based upon the interrupted time-series analysis of monthly data, has demonstrated that changes in the organizational structure of police departments produce short-term changes in the level of reported crime. The present study extends this literature by examining the independent effects of a change in hierarchical control (i.e., the appointment of O. W. Wilson as the new chief of the Chicago Police Department) and changes, over time, in the ecological structure of Chicago on reported rates of economic crime. The multivariate analyses indicate that the failure to take into account organizational change leads to model specification error. We conclude that longitudinal, within-jurisdictional research, based on the analysis of UCR data, must take into account changes in police bureaucracies that can affect the production of official counts of crime.     

聚落生态系统变迁对民族文化的影响--对泸沽湖周边聚落的研究

聚落生态系统中包含的人地关系,是形成和影响民族文化生态的主要因素,随着人类对土地和资源利用方式的变化,会产生一些与传统不同的人地关系,从而影响到民族文化的变迁,引发人们对民族文化流失的担忧.泸沽湖是一个多民族的聚居地,近20年,随着旅游业的发展,聚落生态系统也出现了分化,旅游聚落生态系统的经济活力增强、边界扩大,引起民族文化的变化,而泸沽湖周边最具特色的母系文化,在这一变迁过程中,表现出相当的适应性,为我们正确认识聚落生态系统变迁的影响提供了一个有益的个案.     

社会转型与道德建设的历史选择--学习《公民道德建设实施纲要》的几点思考

在高新技术产业化推进下,一场由传统农业社会向现代工业社会以及正在崛起的知识社会的社会转型,急剧冲击着人们的生活方式、思维价值和伦理规范。分处于不同历史层面的道德行为模式在同一个社会发展空间遭遇激烈碰撞。传送着经济全球化脚步的日益加速,西方强势文化的汹涌而入,中国的道德建设将面临更加严峻的挑战。如何做出历史选择,中共中央颁布的《公民道德建设实施纲要》为我们理清了基本的道德建设思路。作者在文中从社会转型与道德认识的误区入手,较系统地分析了社会转型与道德行为的基本特征,依据《公司道德建设实施纲要》,结合转社会的重点特点,论述了道德建设的历史选择。     

早年特殊的文化心理对毛泽东一生的主要影响

毛泽东早期文化观对其一生的文化心理和文化品性的影响很深早期形成的开放的文化心理,为其保持兼容并蓄的文化态度奠定了基础;早期形成的强烈的批判意识,经过其一生革命生涯的洗礼,形成了比较强烈的斗争、审视的惯性;早期形成的对"动"和"变"的哲学信念,对其一生中创新求异的文化特性的形成具有深层次的奠基作用.