政治文明：社会主义文明的新境界

党的十六大报告提出并阐述了社会主义政治文明的概念 ,这是对马克思主义政治学理论的创新和发展。建设社会主义政治文明 ,是社会主义现代化建设的需要 ,也是人的全面发展和民族复兴的需要。     

西方政府再造的政治理论

考察以民主治理为目标的政府再造运动理论的意涵具有重要意义，西方国家政府再造运动理论的意涵是建立在自利假定基础上的，实际上也是一种政治理论。这种理论的最基本假定是众多个性的狭义的自利集合可以充分地接近公共利益。为了说明再造运动固有理论假定的重要性，先要考虑再造的三个要素，即市场模型，顾客服务和企业家精神，然后分析自利假定的意涵，指出自利假定是对民主的公民资格，公民参与和公共利益的否定，这一理论虽然偏离了现代国家民主治理的目标，但对基于众多个体的狭义自利的集合接近于公共利益的政治理论作出了贡献。     

The depoliticisation of two competing nationalisms and the introduction of democratic Meritopianism as a possible way out for Ethiopia

ABSTRACT

This article is a critical appraisal of the development and performance of two competing nationalisms – Ethiopian and ethnic nationalisms. It assesses why the current system espoused by ethnic politics is a danger to peaceful and harmonious co-existence and state survival and what should be done about it. It starts with the identification of a problem: if the Ethiopian version of federalism continues to be applied within the context of politicisation of ethnicity it will always be a source of ethnic hostility by generating ethnic grievances of real or perceived injustices. Both variants of nationalism are threats to the continuation of the state and the achievement of viable development. After a politico-historical comparative analysis based on observation and secondary data of Ethiopian nationalism (the thesis) and ethnic nationalism (the anti-thesis), a third individual based democratic Meritopianism (the synthesis) rooted in universal human values like individual rights rather than the politicisation of primordial identities is suggested.     

Repression without Exception: A Study of Protest Bans during Turkey’s State of Emergency (2016-2018)

ABSTRACT

Following the coup attempt of 15 July 2016, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency that would last for two years. In this paper, we focus on an understudied aspect of this period, protest repression during the state of emergency, using an original dataset of protest bans issued in 2007–2019. Engaging with the theoretical claims of emergency scholarship, our paper demonstrates that emergency powers were used to target areas, groups, and issues that were not related to the ‘urgency’ underpinning emergency rule. Moreover, such derogations of rights were perpetuated after the termination of the state of emergency within so-called ordinary legality. These practices were nevertheless embedded in the already authoritarian political-institutional context of Turkey and its layered history of emergencies.     

Structural weaknesses and the role of the dominant political party: democratic backsliding in Croatia since EU accession

ABSTRACT

Croatia is regarded as a success story of the EU’s enlargement policy. However, this narrative conflicts with the situation on the ground and with expert surveys, which depict incremental, yet persistent democratic backsliding in recent years. A shift towards illiberal practices, primarily focused on the liberal part of the liberal-democratic nexus, is taking place. This research aims to explore the prevalence and causes for the re-emergence of illiberal practices in Croatia by employing an interpretive method to evidence gathered from media articles and research reports published 2013–2019. The use of illiberal policies by the governing Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in three areas of the political system – the capture of independent agencies, control of the judiciary, and the weakening of independent media – is found to be the driver of democratic backsliding. Causes are found in structural reasons linked to the dominant party. Without either internal power-sharing constraints or external EU conditionality pressure, the HDZ has been able to take advantage of structural weaknesses of the system it built and shaped during the 1990s.     

What is a Fair Trial? Rape Prosecutions, Disclosure and the Human Rights Act

This article engages with the vogue for predicting the effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 by focusing on the rape prosecution and trial. The specific interest is feminist scrutiny of the right to a fair trial, particularly the concept of ‘fairness’, in light of the increasing use of disclosure rules (in Canada and England) to gain access to medical and counseling records. Transcending the two contemporary narratives of ‘victims’/women’s rights and defendants’ rights in the criminal justice system, the authors argue for the infusion of the legal debate on disclosure with feminist understandings of wider cultural debates. They suggest that an increased reflexivity about intimacy, publicity and power, leading perhaps to the development of a concept of ‘democratic publicity’ (Fraser, 1997, p. 100), might help to revision the meaning of ‘relevant’ evidence in the rape trial. They also suggest that the wide-ranging cultural debate about memory, truth and history, and the emerging commitment to experimentation in responding to massive, institutionalised human rights violations (including apartheid, war crimes and child abuse) might be of use in deepening current thinking about the rape trial and listening to the ‘voice’ of the complainant. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

论依法治国的若干前提条件

要落实依法治国 ,必须创造一些必不可少的前提条件 ,这些前提条件包括建立市场经济的基础条件 ,实现公正立法、执法、司法的政治条件和从严治党、提高公民素质等。     

村民自治中的问题与对策--北京市第五届村民委员会换届选举后的情况调查

北京市村民自治已取得很大成就,但在农村基层组织建设、民主程序建设、村务公开、管理体制等方面,也存在一些值得注意的问题.针对这些问题,本文提出了一些对策建议,如加强以党支部为核心的村级组织建设、建立和完善民主程序、完善村务公开、理顺管理体制等.     

对做好民主测评与民主推荐工作的实践与思考

民主测评、民主推荐工作应从健全制度、完善机制入手 ,注重不断扩大参评人员范围、增加评议透明度、提高参评人员素质 ,使组织部门能够了解到真实民意 ,并充分尊重民意选拔任用干部 ,从而促进民主测评、民主推荐工作科学化。     

世界共产党与社会民主党百年关系述要(上)

从源流的角度讲,在19世纪,虽然存在以“社会民主党”和“共产党”命名的政党,但并不存在现代意义上的两党之间的关系。到20世纪初叶,同母同源的社会民主党出现了兄弟阋墙、分道扬镳的局面:其左派改称为“共产党”,即社会民主党共产党化;其右派和中派承袭了社会民主党既有的外壳,内核则渐渐“异化”,并从组织上趋于统一。由此,世界工人运动中形成了共产党人与社会民主党人两分天下、互相对峙的格局;其后,两党虽曾一度有过接触与合作,但最终也未能补“天裂”。这种格局甚至影响到21世纪的今天。