The microeconomic voter

In the United States, aggregate and individual level studies of economic voting for the Congress have produced contradictory findings. The same is true for models of economic voting for the Australian Parliament. This paper presents data taken from a series of individual level studies which show that voters' attitudes towards fiscal and microeconomic issues have been better predictors of the vote for the Australian House of Representatives over the last four elections than their attitudes towards macroeconomic issues. This finding suggests that the cause of the inconsistency between aggregate and individual level models of voting may be that aggregate models of economic voting which include only macroeconomic variables are inadequately specified, since they do not take broader aspects of the economy into account.     

媒体参与：民主行政之现实诉求

大众媒体是社会公众参与公共管理、监控政府运作的桥梁，也是现代社会政治社会化的重要途径。它在增强公众政治认知、营造公平的行政环境以及重塑政府和社会的关系方面具有不可替代的优势。充分发挥舆论的社会功能，对于推行阳光行政、建设服务型政府大有助益。威尔逊的“金鱼缸效应”中的论述历史性地耦舍了我国“阳光行政”的治理理念，对于我们当今拓展新闻自由空间、发挥新闻监督的有效功能仍有重要借鉴意义。     

论高校学生群体性事件中的思想政治教育方法

高校学生群体性事件在很大程度上是由于各种内部矛盾激化而成，诸如事关国家荣誉与前途的重大事件；学生切身利益受到侵害；在校学生的非正常死亡；部分学生素质较差、法制观念淡薄；就业难题与毕业离校情绪等都是诱发高校学生群体性事件的重要因素。要充分有效地利用思想政治教育方法来化解矛盾，需做到未雨绸缪，利用预防教育方法做好防范工作；高校领导人亲临现场与组织参与人员展开“平等对话”；迅速发布权威信息，做好舆情搜集和研判处理工作；善后处理总结，宜春风化雨而非秋后算账。     

做好群众工作推动和谐社会建设

密切联系群众是我们党的最大优势。做好群众工作是构建社会主义社会和谐的需要。新的历史时期，做好群众工作，必须把握好“情、理、法”三个重点。而坚持教育群众与服务群众相统一，提高群众工作的针对性和有效性，建立健全党群干群沟通机制，是做好群众工作的重要途径。     

当代中国政治语境中的“群众”概念分析

当代中国政治话语中的“群众”概念是传统文化中的“民”(或“臣民”)与西方民主理论中的“人民”相嫁接后 ,安顿在传统术语“群众”的外壳之中而形成的。同时 ,它也是西方群众理论在中国的变异 ,特别是对群众价值评判彻底颠覆的产物。作为承载丰富的政治文化意蕴的符号 ,“群众”是“人民”的不彻底的具体化 ,是“臣民”向“公民”的过渡环节。一方面 ,它超越了传统的臣民 ,但仍然承袭了臣民概念的某些内涵 ;另一方面 ,它也涵蕴着公民概念的某些要素 ,但还不是真正意义上的公民。它是臣民与公民的融合     

试论当代菲律宾国内的三种政治形态

菲律宾在向现代国家转变的过程中,形成了三种特殊的政治形态.一是传统庇护制与现代西方民主制相结合的政治庇护制,内部为垂直的金字塔式联结结构,主导其国内政治主流.二是南部以亲缘关系、地域分隔为基础的部族政治,其内部的分裂特质使其在与中央政治庇护制度碰撞结合时,极易诱发部族或家族间的大规模政治仇杀,2009年11月举世震惊的菲律宾政治大屠杀即为明证.三是以水平方向联结为特征的大规模民众政治运动,如三次"人民力量"运动及各种民众组织,由垂直政治庇护网络内部张力而致.分析这三种政治形态间的关系,可更加深入了解菲律宾国内政治全貌.     

The Quiet Revolution? The Labour Party and Welfare Conditionality

Labour's 2017 general election manifesto contained a pledge to ‘end the punitive sanctions regime’ in the British welfare state. Whilst the specific implications of this pledge were not elaborated, such a policy would nevertheless constitute a profound break with a welfare consensus spanning over twenty years. The depth of the suggested changes on welfare are also evident in the scale of reform proposed to disability benefits, as well as plans—confirmed in August 2018 by the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell—to pilot universal basic income. Collectively, these policies would seemingly be deeply at odds with public opinion on the benefits system, which over the course of the last two decades has significantly hardened. Yet despite the seemingly radical and controversial nature of the policy, it received very little media or public attention during the election campaign. This article explores Labour's ‘quiet revolution’ on welfare, examining whether Labour's new welfare approach is indeed a bold attempt to reshape public opinion on welfare or, alternatively, a mostly pragmatic reaction to changing social attitudes. The argument presented is that whilst there are persuasive explanations that Labour is responding to a change in the public mood, there is also evidence of a more ambitious goal at stake: the aim of reshaping, not simply responding to, public opinion on the welfare state.     

‘Come together?’ Citizens and civil servants dialogue and trust

Trust is a key element in the co‐creation of solution for public problems. Working together is a gradual learning exercise that helps to shape emotions and attitudes and to create the foundations of trust. However, little is known about how institutions can promote trust. With the intention of going deeper into the subject, this paper focuses on a local experience in Spain: Madrid Escucha, a City Council initiative aimed at stimulating dialogue between officials and citizens around projects to improve city life. Three are our questions: who participate in these spaces, how the interactions are, and what advances are achieved. Based on qualitative research, empirical findings confirm a biased participation in this kind of scenarios as well as the presence of prejudices on both sides, an interaction characterised by initial idealism followed by discouragement and a possible readjustment, and a final satisfaction with the process even when results are not successful.     

党的基层群众工作建设新思路

搞好党的基层群众工作是党和国家事业的固本之策。党的十八大报告明确指出，基层党组织“要以服务群众、做群众工作为主要任务”。要以改革创新的精神探索推进基层群众工作的有效途径，把握科学规律、树立科学理念、掌握科学方法、完善科学制度，不断提高新形势下基层群众工作科学化水平。     

中国行政执法困境的个案解读

Due to lack of effective, and adequate communication on the standpoint of the government and the attitudes of civil society in legislative process, this has led to tension between the government and the general public. Within the context of law enforcement, the government sticks to “problem-based strategies” and “campaign-based enforcement”, who believe in the power of coercive force. As a way out of the dilemma in law enforcement, it is required that in the process of rule-making, the government should communicate effectively with the civil society in the institutionalized system, focusing on learning, reflection, and strategic adjustment. Wang Xixin, Professor at Law School of Peking University. Since 1999, Prof. Wang is a working member of China Administrative Legislative Research Group an academic team advising China’s Legal Affairs Working Commission on administrative law reforms. Since 2001, he is a major drafter for China’s Administrative Procedure Act. Since 2002, he is a research consultant for the NPC Standing Committee General Office. Since 2003, he is a research fellow of the China Law Center of Yale Law School. Since 2005, he is a Vice-chairman of Beijing Administrative Law Society. In academia, Prof. Wang is focused on administrative procedure, public participation, rulemaking and comparative administrative studies, whose publications include books, such as “Administrative Procedure: A Theoretic and Institutional Inquiry” (Beijing, 2007) and “Public Participation and Administrative Process” (Beijing, 2007) and some 30 articles for journals published in China and America. Moreover, Prof. Wang often submits papers and gives lectures in academic forums, including Columbia Law School, Yale Law School, the Woodrow Wilson Center for Int’l Scholarship, and Carnige Endowment for Int’l Peace.