在历史深处钩沉和思考中印关系——简评玛妲玉《在华印度人：1840—1949》

印度学者玛妲玉的《在华印度人：1840—1949》是当前中印关系史研究的一部力作。该书对近代时期印度来华人士的三大群体进行研究,并对这三类在华印度人的复杂命运及其对中印关系的深刻影响进行了深入分析。该书不仅是史学领域的创新研究,也是当前发展中印友好关系的极好参照。     

当前中国私营企业劳动关系研究

国际金融危机凸显了中国私营企业劳动关系的本质——雇佣。但在社会主义市场经济条件下,中国私营企业劳动关系却又呈现出不同于资本主义剥削的社会主义特色。正是这种具有社会主义特色的雇佣,决定了中国私营企业劳动关系的现状是复杂的、不平衡的、然而又不是不可调和的。危机影响下,私营企业劳动关系矛盾正在加剧,构建私营企业和谐劳动关系对劳方、资方及政府三方来说,都是迫在眉睫之事。     

也谈两岸政治定位——陈孔立《两岸政治定位的瓶颈》读后

本文呼应陈孔立《两岸政治定位的瓶颈》一文的基本观点并有所讨论。笔者认为,解决两岸政治定位时机尚未成熟,但讨论时机业已成熟。在谈判解决政治难题时,要求台湾方面做出相应让步是可期的,但在讨论时期,期待台湾学者在＂中华民国是主权国家＂的底线上作出突破却甚难。学者可以而且应该研究两岸政治定位问题,但纷纷提出各种模式,可能未必有利于两岸关系发展。破解两岸政治难题似也难以从定位直接切入,仍然需要循序渐进,在解决相关问题的累积中逐步创造条件,以期瓜熟蒂落,问题获得最终解决。     

试析维基解密对政府管理的影响

维基解密这一新的信息传播方式,必将对当下及未来的政府管理产生重要影响。维基解密会成为全球性的监督政府管理的新形式,一定程度上颠覆了传统的政媒关系,这促使政府在提高对这一类媒体警惕性并加强监管的同时,探索驾驭这类媒体的新途径。在未来政府间关系的处理上,维基解密既可能成为政府间竞争的新工具,也可能使政府间关系发生微妙变化。     

社会转型期政府在劳动关系中的角色定位及职责履行

我国正处在社会转型期,劳动关系已经发生深刻的变化,迫切要求政府及时找准自身在劳动关系中的角色定位,对劳动关系实行政府干预,以维护劳动者的合法权益。总结、借鉴中外政府在调整劳动关系方面的成功经验,建立健全我国的劳动关系法律制度,加强政府的执法和监督力度,支持组建强有力的工会,将劳动者“组织起来、切实维权”,并对政府工作实施群众监督,这是今后政府在劳动关系领域应该着力履行的工作职责。     

After Michael Banton: some reflections on his contributions to the study of race

ABSTRACT

A year after the death of Michael Banton, Solomos focuses on his contributions to the study of race and ethnic relations. Over a period that began in the 1950s and continued until his death on 22 May 2018, Banton continued to make important contributions to a number of scholarly areas, including the study of race relations in urban communities, the history of racial thought, policing and community relations, and the understanding of race equality policies. His work in all of these areas has helped to shape a field of scholarship and research, and is likely to remain a point of reference for future generations of researchers. In reflecting on Banton’s varied contributions Solomos argues that there is much to be gained from engaging with his work. He concludes by exploring some of the critiques of his key contributions.     

‘Strangers in their own land’: Powellism’s policy impact

ABSTRACT

In this paper, Solomos provides an account of the impact of Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech on policy agendas about race relations and immigration. He argues that Powell’s intervention helped to shape policy frames around race and immigration in its immediate aftermath and beyond. By exploring the impact of the speech on the policy climate, his paper argues that perhaps the most important aspect of the speech is the way it helped to shape the policy agendas of both the Conservative and Labour parties, even as Powell himself was marginalized from mainstream politics. He concludes by suggesting that Powell’s intervention links up with contemporary debates and preoccupations about race and immigration.     

公共关系学视角下的司法公信力构建与管理研究

司法公信力是一种信用,是公众对司法机关的一种积极评价,提升司法公信力的本质是处理好司法机关与公众的关系,塑造司法机构的良好形象。本文从公共关系学的理论与实务出发,以公共关系“三要素”和“四步法”来探索其在司法公信力构建与管理中的地位和作用,剖析司法公信力缺失的根本原因,并对如何积极提升与加强司法公信力建设与管理,树立良好形象提出合理建议。     

Comparative Climate Change Policy and Federalism: An Overview

This commentary provides an overview of the four papers in this issue of Review of Policy Research on the politics of climate change. The papers all address in one way or another aspects of how federal‐type systems are dealing with the collective action and multilevel governance issues of climate change policy. The comparative study of federal systems provides insight into how domestic authority is so often overlapping and divided when dealing with greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Federal arrangements offer a rich array of norms, institutions, and practices for tackling these problems. Federal systems grapple continuously with the kinds of issues that are the most intractable in the climate change case, such as overcoming interregional differences of interests and values. A common federal feature is competition among subnational governments and between them and national or federated governments over climate change policy, which has been especially significant in the United States and in Canada in the relative absence of national action––although soberingly, the whole is as yet nowhere near as great as the sum of the parts. More significant, but rarer is the achievement of tighter coordination in federal systems achieved through intergovernmental co‐decision, as seen in the European Community and Australia. This has been accomplished in large part due to a consensus among all intergovernmental parties on the nature of the problem and congruence with the existing international regime, characteristics missing in the North American context.     

Stem families in rural northwestern Germany? Family systems,intergenerational relations and family contracts

The article investigates intergenerational social relations, distribution of power and mutual rights and obligations within rural families in nineteenth-century Westphalia. Following Frédéric Le Play and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, historiography assumes the predominance of a stem family system in northwestern Germany. However, the definition of ‘stem family’ is still not well determined to date. In particular, the question of paternal authority pertains to the core concept of stem families, but has received rather little attention in historical research. The article argues that there are good reasons to question the adequacy of the notion of ‘stem family’ for northwestern Germany. Using farm and house transfer contracts as qualitative sources, the strong position of farm heirs will be demonstrated. These contracts settled relationships between family members after intergenerational transition, especially for different types of family composition. Ageing parents were confronted with children having alternative options to make a living and had to make far-reaching concessions if they wanted a child to stay and work or respectively care for them. Even parents who still wanted to manage the farm on their own gave up the property rights in order to keep a son or a daughter as labour force and care-taker on the farm. This points to considerable bargaining power of adult children, and strongly diminished parental authority even in multiple households.