发挥民主党派在社会管理 创新中独特作用的若干思考

加强与创新社会管理,是我国平稳度过社会转型期、建设和谐社会和小康社会所必须不断实践的重大课题。统一战线是以“增进团结、维护稳定、凝聚人心、汇聚力量”为根本任务的,在加强和创新社会管理中更应当积极发挥作用,努力产生成效。而作为统一战线的重要一员,民主党派更要以其政治地位、功能的独特性在加强和创新社会管理中发挥其桥梁、献策、督促、凝聚等独特作用,使民主党派更好地参与和服务社会管理,作出其独特贡献。     

消费者产品涉入与品牌转换：顾客满意的中介效应

消费者的品牌转换行为对企业的经营管理影响巨大,了解其前因变量对控制此类行为至关重要。本研究着眼于消费者产品涉入,探索其对品牌转换的预测效应,以及顾客满意在两者间的中介效应。通过对409名大学生的问卷调研,采用相关分析、验证性因子分析、结构方程建模等统计方法进行假设检验。结果显示,消费者产品涉入对品牌转换存在显著的负向预测效应,顾客满意完全中介消费者产品涉入与品牌转换之间的关系。     

公民权利与社会稳定关系初探

在近现代社会,公民权利的享有不仅仅体现在人身自由权利和社会经济文化权利,某种意义上更多地体 现在政治权利;社会稳定应是一种动态的稳定,相对的稳定。保障公民权利的享有是社会稳定的关键所在,社会稳定 意味着保障和进一步扩大公民权利的享有。     

Factors that Influence Life Satisfaction Among Battered Women in Shelters: Those Who Stay Versus Those Who Leave

The study focused on differences between women who left shelters for battered women and returned to their partners, versus those who stayed in the shelter for over 3 months. The study was conducted in battered women’s shelters in Israel, and examined the contribution of women’s internal resources (self-esteem and empowerment) to their life satisfaction, as well as the contribution of integration (participation and commitment) in the shelter at the time of their arrival to their satisfaction with their life. Findings indicate that, among the group of women who stayed in the shelter, personal resources as well as participation and commitment contributed to their life satisfaction. Among the group of women who left the shelter, only commitment contributed to life satisfaction.     

略论孟子民本思想的当代价值

以孟子为代表的民本思想是中国传统政治文化中最具进步性的永恒的思想主题,它是以人民为国家政治本体的一种思想体系,是近现代民主的原初观念形态。民贵君轻、民心向背决定政治成败是孟子民本思想的基本理念。孟子为提倡民权提供了一条很好的思路,并提出了以保民、养民、富民、教民为基本内涵的民生主张。从这些政治理念中必将得出具有政治实践意义的结论：为政一切从人民利益出发,一切政治措施必须以人民的利益为归宿,否则就是离民背本。     

加拿大高等教育的突出特色

加拿大各级政府在高等教育方面颇具战略眼光,对教育质量特别重视。加拿大高等院校具有鲜明的民主思想和强烈的人文关怀意识,其灵活的办学体制提高了教育效益,高度的学生自治培养了学生的创新能力。     

以人为本、民主公正：社会主义核心价值的科学内涵

社会主义核心价值的科学内涵可概括为“以人为本,民主公正”。以人为本,侧重于社会主义性质和本质的层面界定社会主义的核心价值,即回答社会主义是一种怎样的社会形态（价值理念）;民主公正,则侧重于从政治关系和社会关系变革的层面界定社会主义的核心价值,即回答如何完善和发展社会主义社会形态（价值指向、价值标准）。社会主义核心价值是社会主义核心价值体系的本质和主导,离开核心价值的最本质方面,社会主义核心价值体系的相关内容则会流于空谈,甚至会走偏方向。在当前我国关键发展时期,坚持和弘扬以人为本、民主公正的核心价值,在以人为本、民主公正的基点上引领社会思潮、统一思想认识、化解社会矛盾、推动社会进步,具有更加特殊的现实意义。     

Is the Democratic Party’s superdelegate system unfair to voters?

Among the reasons for the historic nature of the 2008 Democratic primary race was the attention paid to the “superdelegates”. The competitiveness of the primary and the important role the superdelegates played has led to calls for reform. This paper develops a formal model that explains why superdelegates selected one candidate over the other and why some superdelegates committed early in the primary season while others waited. Hypotheses are tested using an original dataset collected during the 2008 Democratic primary. The results suggest that although some superdelegates made their decision based on personal, idiosyncratic factors, for many superdelegates, Democratic voters played the most important role in their commitment process.     

公共服务动机:测量、比较与影响——基于福建省样本数据的分析

本研究采用直接测量法建立公共服务动机(Public Service Motivation,缩写PSM)测量量表,并选取福建省的部分政府部门、事业单位、社会团体与企业单位工作人员进行测量。通过对337个有效样本进行研究,揭示PSM水平及其与人口统计变量、组织角色、组织承诺等因素的关系;研究发现,基于中国文化背景的PSM总体上处于中等水平以上,第三部门PSM均值最高,PSM是服务取向而非部门取向,男性PSM略高于女性,PSM与组织承诺成正相关等。文章进一步提出PSM如何演化、PSM如何受情境影响等一些尚待研究的问题。可以将PSM运用于公共部门人才遴选、培养与使用,可以人本而又高效地提升公共部门绩效。     

Kinshasa: An urban elite considers city,nation and state

The declining salience of the nation state has led to an interest in whether other socially constructed forms, such as the city, have replaced it as a source of accumulation, belief and identity. This article seeks to explore whether this is true in the case of the capital of one of Africa's least successful states, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A survey explored the views towards the city of Kinshasa on the past of a variety of middle-class professional people as potential leaders in different occupations resident in different quarters of the city with roots in different parts of the DRC. Despite their somewhat abject material condition and despite extensive contacts internationally, the old dream of the nation state remains relatively strong among them while feelings towards the city largely reflect its situation in that dream rather than any new kind of loyalty. Members this class have extensive national networks of professional contact that help define their identity. New kinds of urban identity with cultural or political meaning beyond this could not be discerned contrary to the perspective held out initially.