Public administration schools and institutes had better enhance information literacy training for senior public servants

Senior public servants are leading forces of national economic development, social progress and national revival, as well as the organizers and decision makers of informatization construction. Public administration schools and institutes had better enhance information literacy education for public servants, in particular, the training of information consciousness and information competency of senior public servants should be emphasized.     

当代中国高级警官执政能力状况调查

对当代中国高级警官执政能力需求状况的调查,主要调查的是反映中国高级警官执政能力的基本状况的高级警官群体对执政党所执掌政权的合法性与支持度的认知,对执政方式存在的主要问题和原因的认知以及对政府执政成本的认知这三项指标。目前网络媒介对高级警官政治知识获取的影响力很小,换言之,以网络教学为主要手段进行高级警官执政能力训练并不现实,而以传统大众传媒(广播电视、报刊资料)的日常教育与组织学习、教育培训等专项教育相结合的双结合训练模式,是目前改善高级警官执政能力的最佳训练途径。     

Crime, Prison, and Female Labor Supply

This paper introduces the vector autoregressive (VAR) methodology into themainstream of applied criminological research as an alternative to theestimation of structural models of crime. The paper presents cointegrationtest statistics for a second-order VAR of crime, prison population, femalelabor force participation, and durable consumption. Our results for theimpact of imprisonment on the crime rate are similar to Levitt's (1996)and substantially larger than previous estimates (e.g., Marvell and Moody,1994). We find that the short-run response of the crime rate to increasedlabor force participation of women is larger than the long-run effect. Theimplication is that major social changes, like the increased labor supply ofwomen, may have surprising impacts and that social institutions may takesome substantial period of time to adjust to such major changes.     

试论西方女权主义理论走向

西方女权主义运动经历了三次高潮 :第一次以争取妇女参政权、受教育权和就业权等基本人权为重心 ;第二次在有关性别歧视的起源、性质及解决方式等问题上 ,出现了以自由女权主义、社会主义女权主义和激进女权主义为代表的三家之说 ;第三次高潮中 ,由于后现代主义话语理论影响 ,女权主义理论更强调女性经验的复杂性及建立女性话语的必要性。本文在此基础上预测了新世纪女权主义的基本走向     

警察活动之基本观念--公民对警察之期待与行政关系三面性

传统警察法学关于警察权界限的论述仅注意到防止警察权过度行使的问题,而大多未从行使警察权以保护一般公民利益的观点来出发。鉴于近来被害者问题逐渐受到重视,警察活动还应从公民对警察之期待与行政关系之三面性来探讨今后警察活动的基本方向。     

The devaluation of life

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been the target of two recent controversies involving the devaluation of life: the 2003 use of a senior discount for the value of statistical life for people over age 65, and the 2008 downward reassessment of the value of statistical life by the EPA Air Office. Even though these new values of statistical life were still among the highest used in the Federal government, there was a strong negative public reaction to each. The public outcry over the EPA policies appears to have stemmed from an irrational response to decreases in the value of statistical life. Proposed Congressional legislation that purportedly seeks to reform the valuations would politicize benefit assessments. A sounder approach is to establish a peer‐reviewed scientific advisory panel to advise agencies on the value of statistical life.     

关于提高女性劳动者退休年龄的探讨

关于提高中国退休年龄问题,近来引发了社会各界的广泛关注。文章深入分析了广泛关注的几个因素:平均余命变化,世界的退休年龄变化趋势以及对于劳动力市场的影响,并进一步分析了当前制度规定下女性退休年龄偏低产生的低收益及退而不休现象及其影响。在此基础上,文章建议:中国应当提高女性退休年龄;结合劳动力人口变化趋势,采用小步渐进的方式进行调整。好处在于:在一定程度上解决女性退休后低收益问题,因而可以缓解退而不休现象;在一定程度上优化劳动力市场供给。     

中国公民体育权利的法律保护

体育权利是公民依法享有的一项重要权利,近年来随着我国经济社会的发展以及法律制度的逐步健全,公民的这一权利已得到了初步的实现和保障。然而相对于国际人权公约的条款规定以及人民群众日益增长的对体育权利保护的需求而言,我们还有待于进一步完善体育法律保障体系,以确保公民体育权利的充分实现。     

我国农民向市民转化的适应过程

我国的农民市民化经历了一段曲折的历程,改革开放以后,我国农民市民化逐步走上了健康的发展道路。就我国目前情况来看,农民到市民的转变,要经过一系列的适应性变化过程：第一步是离开农村来到城市,在城市工作生活;第二步是取得城市的户籍,放弃农村的土地,正式定居城市,获得与市民的同等待遇和权利;第三步是真正的融入城市生活,完成了心理文化适应的转变过程,农民才能真正转变为市民。     

Changing your political mind: The impact of a metaphor on citizens’ representations and preferences for federalism

Federalism is often presented through metaphors, but little is known about the impact of such metaphors. Two experiments were conducted in Belgium presenting federalism as Tetris – with control and treatment groups – in order to grasp the influence of this metaphor. The first experiment reveals that being exposed to text with the Tetris metaphor influences respondents’ representations of federalism towards a more institutional representation and towards more regional autonomy. The second experiment confirms the importance of the text, and more specifically of the metaphor, if political knowledge is taken into account. Respondents with a lower level of political knowledge are those who are influenced by the metaphor, whereas respondents with a higher level are not. Therefore, framing the future of Belgian federalism using the metaphor of Tetris does matter: it affects both individuals’ representations of the federalization process and, consequently, their preferences vis-à-vis the institutional future of the country.