民主党派在促进党际关系和谐中的作用

中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度创立了一种崭新的政党关系,而这种政党关系开辟了我国党际关系和谐的新境界。在我国政党制度的框架中,共产党是保持和促进我国党际关系和谐的主导力量,民主党派是重要力量。民主党派在开发我国政党制度合法性资源、保持政治秩序和发展民主、提高执政党的执政水平和政党活动的制度化等方面发挥了重要作用。当前,我们应该不断推进政治文明建设,努力提升民主党派在促进我国党际关系和谐中的能力。     

转型中国的司法策略

因为既没有对当下中国法官在其角色扮演的过程中所需要的具体知识进行类型分析,又没有对其角色扮演时所处的具体而复杂的角色环境做同情理解,所以当下对于中国司法及其运作方式的批评就多少有失偏颇。实际上,在具体的司法实践中,当下中国法官所采用的司法策略,尽管看起来有些“上不了台面”,但却能在既有的司法环境下顺利推进问题的解决。     

"入世"与政府的现实选择

加入WTO,标志着中国经济开始融入世界经济大潮.然而,入世既有机遇,也有挑战,尤其是政府的挑战是具体而现实的.政府必须加紧修订和完善法制,科学定位在管理、经济、社会等方面的角色,以此推动中国经济的不断发展.     

妇女和婚姻从此就失去保护了吗？——评婚姻法解释三第七、第十一条

媒体和学界对《婚姻法解释三》第七条、第十一条等条文的诟病甚多，认为它们弱化了对妇女的保护，违反甚至冲击、摧毁我国传统婚姻家庭文化、婚姻家庭伦理和婚姻家庭价值取向；另外还认为婚姻家庭领域与物权、合同领域殊有不同，这两条司法解释是将后者的原理粗暴地适用于前者，甚为谬误。笔者认为，这些抨击是对婚姻法解释三的误读。本文试图从对这些抨击作出辩驳的角度论证婚姻法解释三第七条、第十一条的正当性。     

论情感教育在青少年价值观形成中的作用及途径

青少年价值观是随着知识的增长和生活经验的积累而逐步确立起来的。情感教育是教育的新领域，对青少年价值观的形成具有重要作用，有利于消除青少年价值观形成过程中的心理障碍，加强青少年对价值观认知的深化以及价值行为的转化。通过营造和谐的家庭氛围，加强父母与孩子的交流；学校教师提升素质以及建立和谐的师生关系；营造良好的社会舆论与网络环境，家庭、学校、社会三者相结合，开创情感教育在青少年价值观形成中的新途径。     

政府的创新功能边界：在自主创新与市场之间

在我国经济转型进程中,政府对于创新的功能边界究竟在哪里？随着自主创新战略的确立和实施,政府和企业的功能地位界定问题显得尤为重要。自主创新内在的禀赋特征致使创新的市场失灵和系统失灵,政府对于自主创新的功能边界介于创新和市场之间：发挥对创新的政策引导作用,而非主体作用;政府对于自主创新的宏观调控标志在于,为自主创新完善国家创新体系;政府对于推进自主创新的引导作用表现在,为自主创新优化政策生态环境,营造有利于自主创新的社会文化氛围和完善并实施政府采购制度等。     

Public Philanthropic Partnerships: The Changing Nature of Government/Foundation Relationships in the US

Relationships between foundations and the government in the United States have long been difficult with government attitudes ranging from hostile to at best indifferent in the past. American foundations have long claimed innovation as a distinctive function to perform in society in order to preserve their legitimacy. One hundred years after the rise of the large-scale American philanthropic foundation, however, the relationships between foundations and government have come into flux. Between demands from fiscally-strapped local governments and a new openness of state and federal governments to develop collaborative relationships, a variety of public-philanthropic partnerships have emerged that question the traditional roles and distribution of labor between philanthropy and the state. This article traces the historical development of the government/foundation relationship and discusses its changing nature using recession-induced ad hoc partnerships, the emergence of foundation liaison offices, and the Obama Administration’s Social Innovation Fund and Investing in Innovation program as examples.     

The dreaded body: disgust and the production of “appropriate” femininity

While some literature has explored women’s feelings about social identities like fatness, race, disability, queerness, and aging, little research has examined, from an intersectional perspective, how women construct a dreaded or viscerally disgusting body and how this produces “appropriate” femininity. This paper utilized thematic analysis of qualitative data from a community sample of 20 US women (mean age = 34, SD = 13.35) to illuminate how women imagined a body they dreaded. Responses indicated that defective femininity, having “freak” body parts, fear of excessiveness, loathing a particular person’s body, and language of smelliness and disgust all appeared, weaving together women’s fears about fatness, dark skin, and becoming old or disabled. Implications incorporating visceral disgust to examinations of body image, and the intersectional foundations of women’s dreaded selves, were discussed. Further, imagining “Other” bodies may produce especially vivid narratives around social biases and internalized oppression.     

She's old enough to be a beautiful young boy: Sarah Bernhardt,breeches roles and the poetics of aging

This essay argues that Sarah Bernhardt's choice to play young male roles late in her career served as a radically anti-agist feminist response to the limiting and often demeaning professional and social opportunities afforded aging women. While scholarship has attended to Bernhardt's cross-dress roles through the lens of gender, this essay highlights her “breeches” roles, in particular Hamlet and L’Aiglon as cross-age and cross-gender. By examining “aging” as the contextual mode by which gender functioned, we open up new terrain with which to examine and appreciate Bernhardt's significance in the scope of theatre history, women's history and aging studies. In the title roles of Hamlet and L’Aiglon, Berhnardt assumed youth and male-ness on stage, which both highlighted her offstage socially perceived deficits (aged and female) and challenged the designation of those identities as deficient; performance threw into flux what had been assumed static. And the public responded. Far from honoring the assumed cultural hetero-normative contract that aging women acquiesce public visibility, Bernhardt's breeches roles (re)constructed her body as female (from aging/sexless) and demanded audience members’, male and female, desiring gaze.     

Is All Politics Indeed Local? A Comparative Study of Dual Mandate‐Holders’ Role Attitudes and Behaviours in Parliament

The practice of dual mandate‐holding, i.e. the simultaneous occupation of a political mandate at the (sub)national and the local level, is understudied in the comparative literature. Dual mandate‐holders embody the most direct link between local and central government, yet research has disregarded whether these actors actually feel and act as local ambassadors in parliament. In this article, we study whether councillors in parliament feel responsive for local grievances in terms of their respective role attitudes and behaviour, using the PARTIREP Comparative MP Survey. The estimated regression models demonstrate that dual mandate‐holders indeed perceive themselves as local brokers, even when controlling for various systemic‐, party‐ and individual‐level factors. On the other hand, they struggle to translate their localized attitudes into localized parliamentary behaviour, which could call one of the main arguments in favour of dual mandate‐holding into question.