Culture Wars,Secular Realignment,and the Gender Gap in Party Identification

Changes in the U.S. partisan balance over the past decade are often attributed to the enhanced political salience of cultural issues. Yet as white men have continued to become more Republican in recent years, white women increasingly identify with the Democrats. To the extent that cultural issues are influencing this partisan change, men and women must be responding differently to this cultural agenda. Using a pooled ANES data set from 1988 through 2000, I explore the extent to which cultural values are responsible for this gender realignment. Findings suggest that salient cultural issues influence the partisan choices of both men and women, however in somewhat different ways. For women, the issues themselves—reproductive rights, female equality, and legal protection for homosexuals—have become increasingly important determinants of party identification. For men, the influence of cultural conflict on partisanship is argued to be equally pervasive, albeit less direct.     

Popular initiatives in Uruguay: confidence votes on government or political loyalties?

Among stable democracies, Uruguay is one of the most prodigious users of direct democratic devices at the national level. If we analyze the relationship between the share of “yes” votes received by any popular initiative and the share of votes received by politicians who politically supported it, we observe a strikingly high positive correlation of 0.9. Explaining this correlation is the central objective of this paper. Three alternative hypotheses are plausible: First, such a correlation could be a spurious association due to aggregation bias. Second, PI results could be reflections of economic conditions. Third, Uruguayans are extremely consistent in following their political parties' advice. This paper finds that when Uruguayans go to the polls to vote on a popular initiative, their vote choice is primarily the result of their party loyalty, rather than their reaction to economic conditions. In testing my hypotheses I rely on the following statistical methods: King's “Ecological Inference,” multivariate regression, and path analysis. The data come from seven popular initiatives in Uruguay since 1985 (133 observations).     

Family Structure and Problem Behavior of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Growth-Curve Study

In the present longitudinal 3-wave study of 1274 adolescents and young adults, aged 12–24 at the 1st wave, it is examined whether youngsters from intact versus postdivorce families show long-term differences in internalizing and externalizing problems. Furthermore, possible differences in the development of this problem behavior between offspring from intact and postdivorce families are examined, i.e., possible differences in growth curves of internalizing and externalizing problems are investigated. Longitudinal multilevel analyses reveal long-term differences in internalizing and externalizing problems according to family structure. Adolescents and young adults growing up in postdivorce families display more internalizing and externalizing problem behavior than youngsters of intact families. The development of these 2 types of problem behavior does not differ by gender or family structure. That is, the shape of the growth curves of internalizing and externalizing problem behavior is similar for boys and girls and also for youngsters from intact and postdivorce families. Inge VanderValk is a Postdoc Researcher at the Department of Child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in 2004 from Utrecht University. Her major research interests include associations between adolescent adjustment and parental marital quality and parental divorce. Ed Spruijt is an Associate Professor at the University of Utrecht. He received his Ph.D. in 1983 from Utrecht University. His major research interests are the consequences of parental divorce and visitation arrangements on children. Martijn de Goede is an associate Professor at Utrecht University, Department of Methodology and Statistics. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from Utrecht University. His major research interests are occupational and relational life courses of youngsters. Cora Maas is an Assistent Professor at Utrecht University, Department of Methodology and Statistics. She received her PH.D. in 1992 in Utrecht from Utrecht University. Her major interests are: multilevel analysis (theory and applications). Wim Meeus is full Professor of Adolescent Development at Utrecht University. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from Utrecht University. His major research interests are personality, identity, and relationships in adolescence.     

查缉战术课程教学模式改革研究与实践

查缉战术课程教学模式改革主要包括:改革教学方法,强调教与学互动;改革教学组织方式,合理设置课程内容;开发多媒体课件和网上教学资源,更新充实课程内容;改革学习评价方式,建立测试质量标准。     

警察院校擒拿格斗课学生受伤情况调查分析

擒拿格斗课程是警察院校各专业学生的必修课,其教学目标是使学生学会抓捕技巧和培养实战格斗能力。由于受到自然气候、训练场地、器材、学生身体素质、心理素质、教师教学方法、教学态度等因素的影响,在此过程中不可避免会出现学生受伤事件。建议设立专门的医疗机构、事故责任认定机构加强管理,通过学校、教研室、教师、学生的共同努力以减少隐患,为学生完成任务创造条件。     

侦查专业课教学与多媒体技术

采用多媒体技术教学有利于提高学生掌握侦查专业技术和侦查能力。多媒体技术对侦查专业课教学的作用是:增强实践性、培养创造性、发挥主体性、降低教学成本。侦查专业多媒体教学的运作要求教师掌握现代教育技术技能,自制多媒体教学软件与外购教学软件并用,助教型教学软件与助学型教学软件并举。     

Judicial Behavior and Public Opinion: Popular Expectations Regarding the Factors That Influence Supreme Court Decisions

This article examines the mass public's perceptions of the factors that actually influence Supreme Court decisions as well those that ought to influence such decisions. We expect significant discrepancies between what the public believes ought to be the case and what it perceives to actually be the case with regard to Supreme Court decision making and that these discrepancies have a significant negative impact on the public's assessment of the Court. More specifically, we hypothesize that the public believes that political factors have more influence on the Court than ought to be the case and that the public perceives traditional legal factors to be less influential than they should be. We find that the expected discrepancies do exist and significantly detract from popular regard for the Court.     

我对“引出式教学方法”的初步探索

传授式教学重视的是告诉学生研究的结果,而"引出式教学"注重培养学生获得结果的能力,引出式教育有助于培养学生的创新能力,但同时也需与传授式教学有机结合.     

当事人询问在行为保全程序中之构建

当事人是案件过程的亲历者,是事实认定的最佳信息来源,其陈述助益真实之发现;当事人与案件结果具有最密切的利害关系,是最差的证人,其陈述阻碍真实之发现。鉴于当事人对案件真实发现正反两面之功效,向来以正确而慎重裁判之达成为目的诉讼程序,将当事人询问规定为补充性证据,并居于证据种类排序的末位。而在以简易、迅速而经济裁定之达成为目的之行为保全程序中,首先询问当事人既能契合程序固有的快速解决机制,又可以满足被申请人甚至案外人之程序保障,使得法官尽早掌握案件要点。因此,取消当事人询问之补充性地位,并置于证据种类排序的首位更符合诉讼目的。     

公安院校“体改生”教育培养问题探析

公安院校“体改生”的教育培养问题，是公安高等教育面临的一个新问题，如何搞好“体改生”的教学、管理与实践教学则是“体改生”教育培养的关键。在这种背景下，文章阐述了“体改生”的教学问题、“体改生”的管理问题和“体改生”的实践教学问题，并在阐述“体改生”教育培养有关问题的基础上，阐述了自己对“体改生”教育培养的不同看法。