Adult roles and the gender gap in political knowledge: a comparative study

The unusual size and persistence of the gender gap in political knowledge is perplexing in comparison to other dimensions of politics. Building on situational explanations of political engagement, this article claims that women’s and men’s specific adult roles lead to an enlargement of the gender gap in knowledge. The present study analyses men and women’s levels of political knowledge at different life stages by means of two unique datasets specifically collected to measure what people know about politics. Findings show that adult roles provide more opportunities for men to gain political knowledge than for women. Furthermore, the comparison of levels of political knowledge in two such dissimilar countries as Finland and Spain suggests that while gender equality policies are successful in tearing down some of the obstacles that hinder women’s contact with the political world, they are still insufficient to completely bridge the gender gap in political knowledge during adulthood.     

变与不变：中华三千年社会结构的政治社会学解读

三千年来,在具体的自然生态和社会生态背景下,形成了权力精英主导中国社会的格局。顶层的权力精英一方面倚重社会精英维护其统治,另一方面又为了统治的长久,抑制中下层权力精英和社会精英势力的恶性膨胀。今天,以权力精英主导社会的格局依然存在;但较之古代社会,又呈现出权力、经济、知识三大精英群体整合的态势。这使得整个社会体系越来越缺乏弹性,中华民族面临着严峻的挑战,主导着社会格局的权力精英的执政能力正经受着考验。     

社会主义和谐文化建设的三个重要表现层面探讨

社会主义和谐文化建设,是一个包含多方面内容的系统工程。其中,形成良好的和谐文化氛围、营造和谐的舆论环境、形成和谐社会风尚等,是社会主义和谐文化建设的三个重要表现层面。我们应抓好这三个重要表现层面的工作,建设好社会主义和谐文化,为社会主义和谐社会建设服务。     

论警察的公众信任--以中国为例

本研究评估了中国公民对警察的信任程度,并探讨了影响公众对警察信任程度的因素。就目前来看,针对中国公民对待警察的态度进行的实证研究寥寥无几。本研究以冲突理论为理论框架,通过收集中国8个城市的访谈数据,检验了性别、年龄、教育程度、收入、就业、感知政治影响力等冲突变量以及相关控制变量对中国警察公信力的影响。结果表明,这些变量对于中国公民对待警察的态度的解释力有限。青年以及政治权力较低的中国公民往往对警察的信任度较低。此外,中国公民对警察的态度还受到公共安全满意度、政府处理犯罪的能力、生活质量和政府官员腐败度的影响。同时本文也对未来研究的意义进行了讨论。     

刑事审判监督的制度缺陷与完善

我国的刑事审判监督制度在制度设计上,存在监督程序启动标准过于抽象、再审程序启动权设置不尽合理等缺陷.要使刑事审判监督发挥保障法律公正实施,促进公正司法的制度功能,就要赋予审判机关接受刑事审判监督的义务和责任,明确刑事审判实体监督的启动标准,构建刑事审判监督中的证明标准,将再审程序启动权赋予检察院统一行使.     

A critical analysis of the NBC news special “six days plus twenty years: A dream is dying”

The July 1, 1987 NBC News documentary on Israel's occupation of the West Bank neglected the context of the occupation, failing to give any historical perspective on the Israeli‐Palestinian dispute. The nature of the Palestinian opposition— characterized by intransigence and violence—was virtually ignored by NBC. The unbalanced coverage of the conflict served only to confuse the viewer and distort the salient issues involved.     

Linking two levels of governance: Citizens’ trust in domestic and European institutions over time

This article puts forward a comprehensive framework for explaining the complex and dynamic relationship between trust in the domestic government and trust in the EU, considering time, country and individual-level variation. Using longitudinal comparative data from 32 Eurobarometer survey waves (2004–2018), we first establish that the link between attitude formation at the national and the EU supranational levels is present over time. Second, we show that during ‘extraordinary’ times of crisis the strength of that relationship intensifies. Third, we posit that the European sovereign debt crisis changed the mechanism for this relationship in two ways: during ‘extraordinary’ times, the link is much stronger in countries hardest hit by the crisis, and the relationship holds independent of individuals' political sophistication across all countries. Our findings have implications for understanding the drivers of EU support and theories of institutional trust.