Why did Thailand's middle class turn against a democratically elected government? The information-gap hypothesis

In 2006, Bangkok's middle-class residents overwhelmingly supported the military coup that displaced the elected government of Thaksin Shinawatra. Survey research shows that opponents of Thaksin had a stronger commitment to liberal democracy and possibly to royalist values while rural voters supported Thaksin because he fulfilled their social demands. Opposition to Thaksin was not motivated by economic interests, but rather, there is some evidence that urban middle- and upper-class voters disliked Thaksin because they heard negative reporting about him, which were less available in the countryside. These findings are compatible with a new theory of democratic consolidation, in which the upper classes have the means that would enable and encourage them to pay sufficient attention to politics to discover that what they viewed as ‘good government’ was violated by the ruling party, which could have led to demands for more democracy historically. More recently, however, in Thailand and perhaps other instances in Southeast Asia and Latin America, those with the money and leisure to follow politics closely have heard reports about the ‘bad government’ of populist, democratically elected leaders, and thus have turned against them.     

Poverty reduction and democratization – new cross-country evidence

The rapid decrease in absolute poverty across the developing world has received much attention. However, there have been few systematic attempts to analyse the political consequences of these developments. This article builds on the improved availability of household income data from developing countries to document a small but statistically significant impact of lagged poverty rates on a range of democracy indicators. The results hold across a battery of sensitivity and robustness tests. I also show that poverty reduction has a stronger effect on democracy than alternative predictors that are more widely used in the democratic regime transition and consolidation literature, such as average income and relative inequality (the Gini index). However, I find weaker effects of poverty on indicators of government quality and a declining influence of poverty reduction on democracy over time. These results point to more structural obstacles to democratic consolidation in lower-income regions, such as a tendency by populist leaders to exploit the economic grievances of vulnerable lower-middle classes.     

创业教育：中学生职业生涯规划的有效载体

职业生涯规划作为我国教育体系的基础课程之一,承担着新一代公民有关“人的改造和发展”的战略任务,也越来越受到基础教育领域的重视。而伴随着课程的发展,其滞后性和片面性也进一步显现。创业教育作为我国发展中的热点教育领域,与中学职业生涯规划课程有着较强的融合性和互通性。以创业教育为载体,可以有效提升中学生职业生涯规划的针对性、目的性和实效性。     

民族地区乡镇中学教师素质现状与发展对策

新一轮基础教育课程改革实验是否获得成功,教师队伍的建设是关键的环节。本文应用多种研究方法,对贵州黔南民族地区乡镇中学教师的基本现状进行调查,探究其落后原因,诊断其现状,据此提出改革与发展的对策和建议。     

Sequential monitoring of burials containing small pig cadavers using ground penetrating radar

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) was used to monitor 12 pig burials in Florida, each of which contained a small pig cadaver. Six of the cadavers were buried in sand at a depth of 0.50-0.60 m, and the other six were buried in sand at a depth of 1.00-1.10 m to represent deep and shallow burials that are generally encountered in forensic scenarios. Four control excavations with no pig interment were also constructed as blank graves and monitored with GPR. The burials were monitored for durations of either 13 or 21 months, and were then excavated to correlate the decomposition state of the cadaver with the GPR imagery. Overall, this study demonstrated that it may be difficult to detect small cadavers buried in sand soon after they are skeletonized because the area surrounding the body, or the grave, may not provide a strong enough contrasting area to be detected by GPR when compared to that of the surrounding undisturbed soil. Also, depth of burial appears to influence grave detection because bodies that are buried at deeper depths may be detected for a longer period of time due to reduced decomposition rates.     

299例中小学生中医兼夹体质与近视相关性分析

目的 研究中小学生近视与中医兼夹体质的相关性。方法 以在北京同仁医院眼科门诊就诊的299例中小学生为样本,采用《中医体质分类与判定》判定其体质类型,采用logistic回归分析探究中医兼夹体质与中小学生近视的相关性。结果 299例受试者中,近视者237例,非近视者62例。兼夹体质者近视发病的危险度较平和质者显著增高（OR值为1.39;95% CI为1.04～1.86,P=0.03）。结论 兼夹体质是近视的危险因素,尚需大样本进一步确证。     

Without Negative Origins and Absolute Ends: A Jurisprudence of the Singular

This paper is a preparatory analysis for a jurisprudence of the singular. Through a critical analysis of the negativity and the absolving character of the transcendental metaphysics of law and justice it reads mainly through M. Heidegger, Heraclitus, G. Agamben and J-L. Nancy a realignment of the questioning of justice that takes its provisional name in ‘dike’, at thepoint where the routes of ontology, the juridical and the political intersect and reveal the pseudo-propriety of their presuppositions. Without the transcendental dialectical discourse of the origin and its absolving-absolute ‘ends’, this paper re-poses the urgency of thinking the singular-multiple ‘right’ otherwise. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

股份回购及对债权人和中小股东的保护

笔者认为 ,股份回购可能导致公司债权人和 /或公司中小股东利益受损 ,基于此 ,我国关于股份回购的立法应着眼于保护公司债权人、公司中小股东的角度设计并完善相关的法律机制     

在中青年学术骨干中发展党员的工作机制研究——以Z大学G学院为例

在中青年学术骨干中发展党员,培养造就一批既有马克思主义信仰、又有现代科学文化知识的马克思主义者,是提升高校中青年学术骨干政治素养的重要举措。文章深入分析了Z大学G学院中青年学术骨干入党现状及其存在的问题,剖析与之相对的原因,探索如何改进在中青年学术骨干中发展党员的工作机制。     

影响警察学员中长跑技术运用因素的研究

本文采取文献资料法、调查法、访谈法等方法对辽宁警察学院、中国刑警学院的警察学员在学习中长跑技术时容易受到哪些因素的影响进行研究。结果表明,运动员在长时间跑步时的自身综合素质、主观心理、以及天气场地等都是影响其发挥技术的关键环节。