Community sustainable-development indicators: a useful participatory technique or another dead end?

This article undertakes a critical re-evaluation of a DFID-funded project in South Africa which ran between 1998 and 2001. The evaluation sought to test whether the development of community-led indicators would improve governance. Since the project ended, a series of papers have been published that are critical of such participatory methods, arguing particularly that they are apolitical and adopt a technocratic approach. In the light of these criticisms, this article re-assesses the DFID project, following on from the initial evaluation carried out by the author in 2001. Sobantu, a black township in Pietermaritzburg, was one of the original project sites. It was chosen as the subject for research because the local implementing agency was a politically astute, well-connected institution that understood the political nature of the process required to develop the indicators. Although the project achieved some positive outcomes, the long-term commitment to the indicators has since been compromised. This was in large part due to the inability of community members to engage meaningfully with key municipal service providers. However, recent changes to the South African planning regime might provide opportunities for the indicators to become more useful again.     

农民工权益保护理论探讨

我国经济社会发展进入了关键时期,农民工为我国的经济建设和社会发展做出了巨大贡献,维护好农民工的合法权益事关我国改革发展全局,是构建社会主义和谐社会的必然要求,对于促进城乡协调发展、维护社会公平正义、保持社会和谐稳定,都具有重大和深远的意义。     

试论社会主义和谐社会人民共建人民共享

构建社会主义和谐社会必须坚持党的领导,同时要以不断提高党的执政能力,保持党的先进性,以党内民主推进社会民主,通过民主政治的扩展,充分体现广大人民在构建和谐社会中的主体作用,进而保证社会的公平公正,达到人尽其用,共同富裕的目标。     

再谈我国建设服务型政府的原因和关键措施

建设服务型政府成为当前我国新一轮行政体制改革的重要内容之一，也是构建和谐社会的必然要求。人民民主专政的根本性质和中国共产党的宗旨，完善社会主义市场经济体制的需要，构建社会主义和谐社会的必然要求，以及目前政府自身的状况构成了我国建设服务型政府的四个方面原因。要建设服务型政府，应该善于抓主要矛盾，建设一支高素质的公务员队伍是我国建设服务型政府的关键措施。     

构建和谐社会下的中国多元整合

多元主义起源于西方,是现代社会的典型特征。我们所在的社会是个多元社会,但在我们的政治话语中多元政治好象就是西方的多党制。其实不同的民族国家及其文化传统应该有自己民族特色的多元政治。我们必须接受这个事实,直面社会向多元转型中带来的新的问题和矛盾。     

和谐社会建设与维护职工合法权益探讨

在市场经济发展进程中,我国工会逐步形成了当代维权观念,即:坚持以人为本的维权目标,最大限度地维护职工合法权益,把维权贯穿于推动改革、促进发展、积极参与、大力帮扶的全过程;坚持运用法律的手段,健全在工会组织领导下的维权机制,把维权纳入规范化、制度化、法制化的轨道;坚     

公安机关在犯罪认定中存在的几个问题

当前,公安机关在犯罪认定中存在一些问题,正确认定犯罪必须切实把握犯罪的总体特征及个罪的具体构成,坚持具体案情具体分析,合理运用逻辑推理。     

略论小康社会建设视觉下的高职教育发展

作为高等教育体系的组成部分,高职教育在我国建立小康社会中扮演重要的角色,这是我国小康社会建设内涵的丰富性和高职教育的特点决定的。因此,必须把它置于我国小康社会建设的宏大背景下,使其健康发展。     

Amartya K. Sen and social exclusion

Andries Du Toit (2004) argues that the concept of social exclusion has limited use in the field of development studies, since chronic poverty is often the result of incorporation on particularly disadvantageous terms (‘adverse incorporation’) rather than any process of exclusion. Du Toit therefore advocates going beyond thinking about ‘exclusion’ and ‘inclusion’ in binary terms and looking more closely at how different kinds of power are formed and maintained. This article argues that thinking about social exclusion has already moved beyond a simple ‘included/excluded’ dichotomy, and that use of Sen's analytical framework assists researchers to tease out the complex, interconnected factors underlying chronic poverty, such as that experienced by agricultural workers in South Africa's Western Cape district of Ceres.     

建设小康社会实践中行政价值观的七大取向

全面建设小康社会实践中,中国公务员行政价值观已经在深层次的变革创新之中呈现出新的取向。基于对已有的文献报道、国家政策、政府行为表现等的研究,笔者认为,目前我国国家公务员的行政价值观在民主、法治、权力、发展、政绩、人才、群众等观念方面出现了新的理解和选择,它们之间的内在联系预示着行政价值体系的重塑。