Modernization discourse with Chinese characteristics

Despite sustained criticism of Western modernization theory since the 1970s, several distinct groups of theorists have sought to renovate it. Further, some of the strongest evidence of the theory's continued vitality comes from discussions of China, the fastest developing contemporary society. A close reading of a diverse group of texts reveals that a lively, creative, and global Chinese modernization discourse has emerged in recent decades. That discourse draws heavily on classical modernization theorists like Max Weber, acknowledges the successors and critics, and often integrates these Western theories with Chinese social and philosophical traditions. This essay maps the Chinese modernization discourse, highlights its relationships with other modernization discourses, and situates it within historical and theoretical contexts.     

大力发展循环经济 促进经济社会可持续发展

循环经济倡导的是一种建立在物质不断循环利用基础上的经济发展模式,它是实现可持续发展的重要途径,也是世界经济发展的大势所趋。循环经济在我国尚属于新鲜事物,我国对发展循环经济在理论与实践上还存在许多问题,应从制度规划、立法实施、发展科技、宣传教育等方面着手,促进我国经济社会的可持续发展。     

论公共利益在行政法中的地位

行政法中的公共利益是由行政法规范限定的、特定时空下的、由行政主体主动捍卫的、体现在行政法运作中的利益,它的法律表现形式主要是公共道德、公共发展权等六个方面,它在行政法中的功能主要体现为对行政行为的排斥等四个方面。     

香港打击侵犯版权罪行概论

香港特别行政区有关版权的法律依据主要源自香港法例第528章《版权条例》。新的《版权条例》于1997年订立,过去数年,随着时代的变迁,科技发展一日千里,侵犯版权的形式愈见层出不穷,加上社会各界对保障知识产权的意识日渐提高,香港特区政府当局曾多次修订条例的涵盖范围、若干罪行的定义,以及相关的罚则。修例的目的,不但是要平衡版权拥有人、社会大众及版权作品业务使用者的利益,亦须履行香港特别行政区在遵从世界贸易组织《与贸易有关的知识产权协议》的规定方面的国际责任。这些法例修订工作也表明了香港特区政府打击侵权罪行的决心,并一再彰显其对保障知识产权工作的高度重视。     

树立以科学发展观为指导的科学稳定观

传统稳定观缺乏科学发展观内涵,忽视解决影响稳定的根源问题,重治标不重治本,这样的稳定工作永远是被动的。只有树立以科学发展观为指导的科学稳定观,注重从源头上发现和解决影响稳定的社会矛盾,才能确保稳定工作既适应新世纪的新情况新问题,又牢牢把握稳定工作的主动权。     

论刑事侦查执法中的内部监督

刑事侦查执法队伍庞大、执法工作范围广泛,需要有强有力的执法监督制度加以约束。健全及加强刑事侦查执法的内部监督机制,成为了亟待解决的课题。文章围绕公安机关刑事侦查执法的内部监督问题进行研究,阐明了我国刑事侦查执法内部监督的必要性,分析了其运行现状及存在缺陷,并就日常监督发现的问题有针对性地提出了解决办法,以期为公安机关刑事侦查执法内部监督工作提供必要的理论依据。     

马克思主义的根本目的是实现人的自由和发展

马克思主义创始人将其所有理论、实践活动的最高目标确定为谋求人的自由、解放和发展,明确提出未来新社会应该是每个人全面自由发展的社会形式。人是社会的主体,只有人得到自由、解放和发展,才能推动社会进一步发展。我国社会主义现代化建设就是要把人从旧体制下解放出来,改变不合理的规章制度,为人的发展创造充分的条件。     

Empowerment,Deliberative Development,and Local-Level Politics in Indonesia: Participatory Projects as a Source of Countervailing Power

The salience of the concept of “empowerment” has been deductively claimed more often than carefully defined or inductively assessed by development scholars and practitioners alike. We use evidence from a mixed methods examination of the Kecamatan (subdistrict) Development Project (KDP) in rural Indonesia, which we define here as development interventions that build marginalized groups’ capacity to engage local-level governing elites using routines of deliberative contestation. “Deliberative contestation” refers to marginalized groups’ practice of exercising associational autonomy in public forums using fairness-based arguments that challenge governing elites’ monopoly over public resource allocation decisions. Deliberative development interventions such as KDP possess a comparative advantage in building the capacity to engage because they actively provide open decision-making spaces, resources for argumentation (such as facilitators), and incentives to participate. They also promote peaceful resolutions to the conflicts they inevitably spark. In the KDP conflicts we analyze, marginalized groups used deliberative contestation to moderately but consistently shift local-level power relations in contexts with both low and high preexisting capacities for managing conflict. By contrast, marginalized groups in non-KDP development conflicts from comparable villages used “mobilizational contestation” to generate comparatively erratic shifts in power relations, shifts that depended greatly on the preexisting capacity for managing conflict.

Institutions and Caribbean Economic Performance: Insights from Jamaica

We explore the impact of social institutions on economic performance in Jamaica through a reinterpretation of the plantation economic model. In its original form, the plantation model fails to develop a causal link between the plantation legacy and persistent underdevelopment. Despite its marginalization, the model remains useful for discussions on growth and development. Consequently, we offer a reappraisal using the causal insights from Kenneth Sokoloff and Stanley Engerman. We use two examples to demonstrate how inequality encourages the formation of institutions that are inconsistent with growth, and an empirical analysis to confirm the hypothesized relationship between inequality, institutions, and economic development. Since inequality is expected to influence growth indirectly, we use a structural specification, which follows William Easterly’s recent test of Sokoloff and Engerman’s argument. Our reliance on a time-series specification is unique. We demonstrate that the expectation that, on average, inequality and growth is negatively related and that institutions may compromise growth are accurate for Jamaica, the most cited Caribbean nation in the current discourse. Our results carry several policy implications, including support for the recent calls in Jamaica for political restructuring. However, both the paucity of similar studies and the importance of the implications for sustainable growth and development demand further analyses.

工会的四种模式与中国特色社会主义工会

工会发展的模式大体上可以概括为四种：工团主义工会,革命性工会,生产辅助型工会和中国特色的社会主义工会。每种模式都嵌入特定的社会制度并且反映其存在的时代背景。中国特色社会主义工会也是依据中国现阶段的基本国情而形成的,既有工会的共性,又有其独特的内涵。