我国社会发展的文化困扰与对策

社会的转型,说到底是文化的转型。建设有中国特色的社会主义文化,是整个有中国特色社会主义事业的重要组成部分。它不仅为现代化建设提供精神动力和智力支持,而且为现代化事业营造安定的社会环境。     

全面建设小康社会中政府决策的信息咨询机制

全面建设小康社会过程中,政府决策的基础发生了变化。这就要求政府必须提高决策的科学化水平。有效的信息咨询机制是实现政府决策科学化水平的重要保证,实现信息咨询机制的重点是全面掌握行政情报信息以及使用适当的信息咨询方式。     

论和谐社会视角下的纠纷解决机制

社会主义和谐社会的构建,离不开一套良好的纠纷解决机制。我国现行纠纷解决机制存在着纠纷解决方式单一、纠纷解决成本高效率低、纠纷解决方式彼此之间各自为政不相配套的问题,应通过建立多元化的、符合中国国情的纠纷解决机制来逐步解决。     

社会自治规则探讨——兼论社会自治规则与国家法律的关系

社会自治规则是社会自治组织行使社会公权力,规定自治事项,规范成员行为的重要载体和集中体现,并直接决定了社会自治秩序的建构。其可分为授权性规则和自主性规则,其中前者是法律的延伸,具有法的属性;而后者更接近公法契约,不属于法的范畴。其调整范围主要是专业类、行业类和利益类事项,不能涉及法律保留事项。就效力而言,自主性规则具有契约性和自律性,但不具有法律的强制力,只有在法院确认其合法有效后,才能强制执行。社会自治规则与国家法律之间既有互动的一面,也有监督保障的一面,只有二者有机结合,才能有效建构理性的国家和社会秩序。     

"社会全面进步"与"人的全面发展"必须相辅相成--江泽民关于现代化理论的新贡献

把实现“社会全面进步”作为我国现代化建设的总体战略目标,并相应地提出不断推进“人的全面发展”,是江泽民对现代化理论的突出贡献。社会全面进步与人的全面发展的关系,也就是社会现代化与人的现代化的关系,二者在同一历史过程中彼此促进又相互制约。不断推进人的全面发展,既是社会全面进步的题中应有之义,也是实现社会全面进步的决定因素。     

中国经济发展面临的矛盾及化解路径

中国在建设全面小康、追求和谐社会的进程中,面临着一系列深层次的矛盾和问题,要用马克思主义经济学理论,总结和揭示中国特色社会主义发展的规律,探讨化解矛盾的路径。     

刍议治安调解

对治安纠纷,公安机关可以不再“一管到底”,这是一种不确切的表述。正确解读《治安管理处罚法》规范的治安调解,不能弱化公安机关的调解职能。构建和谐社会,需要强化公安机关的治安调解职能。而要强化其调解职能,就需要提高公安民警的综合素质。     

“霍桑试验”的启迪与和谐社会

霍桑试验开创了以人为本管理理论与实践的一个新时代。坚持以人为本管理理念,就是要将对自然技术科学的研究和社会科学中对人的研究,放在同等重要的位置加以系统思考与切实解决,这样才能加速提高社会生产力。坚持以人为本管理理念,就是要努力创建和谐社会,形成平等、友爱、融洽的人际环境,增进各级组织的凝聚力;就是要努力实践民主管理,形成民主、自由、宽松的组织环境,促进人们在工作中的友好合作与共同进步,不断提高执政能力建设的自觉性。     

Rights-based approaches to development: what is the value-added?

Advocates and activists for human rights are currently facing a paradox: the coexistence of profound challenges in familiar territory (civil liberties) alongside expansion into new areas. Rights-based approaches (RBAs) are a part of this latter expansionary stream. This article argues that four kinds of potential value-added can be claimed. First, value-added can be sought through direct, indirect, and strategic uses of the law. Second, value can also be added by re-centring the state and (re)asking the question about its appropriate role in development (delivery, oversight), and strategising engagement with the state. Third, in relation to accountability, RBAs add value by calling the state to account; building capacities of rights holders and duty bearers; and encouraging a new kind of ownership of human rights among NGOs. Fourth, the article explores claims that RBAs re-politicise development, redefining it as rights-based rather than based on benevolence; reclaiming or re-politicising the key (process) terms of development; addressing the root, structural causes of poverty and conflict, rather than the symptoms; and speaking truth to power. Not all of these contributions are unique to RBAs, however, and on all counts it remains to be seen if RBAs will deliver on their promise.     

Participatory action research into donor–recipient relations: a case study

This article describes the exploratory and preparatory phase of a research project designed to use co-operative enquiry as a method for transformative and participatory action research into relations between donors and recipients in two developing countries, Bolivia and Bangladesh. It describes the origins of the idea, the conceptual challenges that the authors faced in seeking funding, and what they learned from this first phase. The authors analyse why the researchers, as well as the potential subjects of the research, were uncomfortable with the proposed methodology, including the challenges arising from their own positions and the highly sensitive nature of the topic. They explain why they decided to abandon the project, and they reach some tentative conclusions concerning the options for participatory action learning and research in development practice.