Next generation engagement: Setting a research agenda for community engagement in Australia's infrastructure sector

The global infrastructure sector is thriving. But community opposition to major projects is also rising. Australian examples demonstrate the policy backflips, reputational pitfalls, and financial costs of project delays and cancellations. Failures to engage communities are surprising, given the widespread adoption of community engagement (CE) principles and the increasing professionalization of CE roles. If acceptance of the need for CE in infrastructure is more widespread than ever, why are we not seeing smoother project delivery, reduced protest, and cost savings? This paradox is the driving force behind the Next Generation Engagement project. This article offers a practitioners’ perspective to introduce the project and present key findings from its 12‐month pilot study aiming to establish a transdisciplinary, industry‐led research agenda for CE in Australia's infrastructure sector. The article contributes to our understanding of CE literature and research codesign. It maps out the top five priority themes for future research to support infrastructure selection, planning and delivery. The research agenda provides guidance for policy, and practice, offering consolidated, research‐based insights for policymakers and practitioners.     

Political Brand Communities as Social Network Clusters: Winning and Trailing Candidates in the GOP 2016 Primary Elections

This study integrates a brand community theoretical framework and a social networks approach to the study of political marketing on social media. It analyzes Twitter activity by and about all Republican candidates during the month of January 2016 prior to the Iowa primary caucus. Specifically, it identifies key patterns of information flow and political brand community emergence surrounding each candidate as well as brand social mediators who play influential roles in content flow. Findings detect network clusters - subgroups of siloed users - who converse to exchange information with one another rather than with disconnected others in any given political brand community. We classify these clusters in two groups: direct communities that surround a brand – here, a candidate – and indirect communities that consist of users who talk about the political brands but are not directly connected to the brand. Within this fragmented community structure, brand social mediators have the power to bridge direct and indirect brand communities across the network. Among the winning and trailing brand communities, different sets of brand social mediators, patterns of information flow, and network structures emerge. The findings suggest that the more successful a political brand is in voter polls, the weaker the social ties and relationships are within the brand communities. The interactions between political brands and their direct vs. indirect communities also exhibit different patterns of information flow. While direct brand communities demonstrate a higher level of reciprocity, indirect brand communities show a higher level of density. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.     

仪式·音乐——以德宏户撒阿昌族南传佛教仪式活动为例

仪式一直被视为民族志研究者阅读和诠释社会的一种"文本",也是文化的整体表达。音乐是人们用来进行仪式的特定符号,它的意义和功能存在于特定的仪式结构当中。在云南德宏地区户撒阿昌族的南传佛教仪式活动中,音乐和非音乐的音声因素组合而成特定的符号,其自身特点在仪式中突显,并成为族群记忆延续和传承的时空桥梁。     

我国校园警务基础理论问题探析

在分析我国开展校园警务工作的基础上，界定校园警务定义，并解析校园警察的主要职责与职权，探寻校园警务的特征扣理论渊源，明确校园警务的预防功能和督查功能，进而完成我国校园警务的基础理论建构。     

多位思索与深度检视:社区矫正制度研究综述——以2003-2010年CNKI期刊数据库的相关文献为素材

社区矫正是在20世纪70年代兴起于欧美国家的一种非监禁刑,我国于2003年开始此项制度的试点。作为对实践的回应,我国理论界从理论基础、主体、适用范围、意义、模式、实践效果、问题、对策与域外实践等诸多角度对社区矫正展开了思考与探讨,部分学者所谈及的社区矫正的不可行性研究、未成年罪犯的社区矫正、社区矫正的社会参与等具有进一步探究的价值。     

论我国未成年人社区矫正体系的构建——以刑事一体化为视角

我国目前的社区矫正只适用于被法院判定有罪的人。基于未成年人的主体特征,对于未成年犯的社区矫正体系不应仅仅局限于法院审判阶段的监禁刑替代措施和审判后的非监禁刑罚执行,还应将审判前的侦查及起诉阶段纳入到社区矫正的适用范围,即以刑事一体化为视角构建未成年犯的社区矫正体系。     

保护被害人义务的归属

保护被害人的义务具有多重归属，国家、社区、家庭以及公民自身都当共同承担保护被害人的责任。国家应当是对被害人实施保护的第一义务人，社区是对被害人实施保护的直接责任者，公民自身是保护被害人权利义务双重承担者。     

关于城乡和谐社区建设的对策研究

当今中国,和谐社区建设已经引起了上下共同的重视,但是基于各种主客观原因,问题仍然不少,针对现存的问题,笔者从立法、社区服务、社区参与、工作人员队伍、经费等几个方面提出相应对策。     

高校大学生思想政治教育与大学生社区建设研究述评

当今时代条件下,提高高校大学生思想政治教育工作的实效性与针对性,必须结合当代大学生特点,将工作与大学生社区建设结合起来。学者们从思想政治教育的角度出发,研究分析如何充分发挥大学生社区在思想政治教育工作中的作用,主要从社区建设氛围、社区建设模式、社区建设方法以及社区建设途径等方面进行探讨。当前学界对此话题的研究取得了可观的研究成果,但也存在着问题与不足,有待于进一步拓展和深化。     

社区戒毒模式及其运作机制研究

目前，国家颁布的《禁毒法》，对戒毒模式进行了重构，除将强制戒毒与劳教戒毒合并为强制隔离戒毒模式外，还明确提出了社区戒毒模式。社区戒毒在国外有了较为成功的模式和经验，其矫治效果获得了肯定，但在我国目前还处于民间探索阶段。尽管国内某些地方也不乏社区戒毒的成功范例，但并非法律意义上的社区戒毒模式。对社区戒毒模式的建立原则、实践价值及具体运作机制等方面进行深入研究，并提出相应的策略，保障社区戒毒运作的合法性、规范性和有效性，是矫治工作者无法推卸的责任。