The Mexican Presidential and Congressional Elections of 2000 and Democratic Transition

The article examines the presidential and congressional elections of July 2000 in Mexico. The elections brought to an end more than 70 years of single party government and the culmination of a gradual democratisation process stretching back at least a decade. The long term decline in the bases of support for the regime and the changing institutional rules for elections and parties are described by way of contextualising the campaign itself and its leading protagonists. While the new rules of the game guaranteed free and fair elections, issues of internal party democracy and negative, personality-based campaigning do not paint a universally rosy democratic picture. Analysis of the election results demonstrates how the opposition was able to move beyond its traditional geographic confines and challenge across the country. However, voters did not give an unambiguous victory to Vicente Fox; his alliance does not possess a majority in either house of congress. Divided government and developments in the party system are considered as two key issues that will shape Mexico's democratic future.     

无因管理之类型与后果分析

无因管理是一种法律直接规定的事实行为,以是否有利于本人是否违背本人意思为标准,可将之分为四大类型。因各类型的情形不同,而产生不同的法律后果。     

论劳动关系中的民主

本文通过重新审视中国劳动关系的现状 ,结合对劳动关系史的考察 ,针对我国劳动关系现状中存在的问题及原因 ,重申了劳动关系及劳动关系理论中的民主理念和概念 ,提出了建立以民主的契约为基础的劳动关系调整机制权利的基本思路。     

The Janus‐Face of Negociation Democracy. The Effects of Consensus Democracy,Direct Democracy and Decentralization on State Intervention in Swiss Cantons

Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Varianzen der quantifizierbaren Staatstätigkeit in den 26 Schweizer Kantonen der 1980er und 1990er Jahre. Im Mittelpunkt der erklärenden Grssen stehen dabei Formen der Verhandlungsdemokratie, insbesondere der Konkordanz, dezentraler Entscheidungsstrukturen und direktdemokratischer Beteiligungsrechte. Wir zeigen, dass die Erweiterung des Konzeptes der Verhandlungsdemokratie auf weitere Staatsorgane neben der Regierung zur analytischen Unschärfe fhrt, da die verschiedenen Ausprägungen der politischen Machtteilung mit unterschiedlichen Wirkungen auf den Umfang des ffentlichen Sektors verbunden sind. Während die Konkordanz im Sinne der parteifrmigen Organisation politischer und sozialer Konflikte tendenziell die staatliche Intervention begnstigt, zgeln konstitutionelle Vetospieler die Staatstätigkeit, indem direktdemokratische Mitwirkung und dezentrale Machtteilung dem Staat Fesseln auf der Einnahmen‐und Ausgabenseite anlegen.     

案例教学是党校教学改革的成功之路--关于中共瓦房店市委党校案例教学的调查

案例教学法是运用案例进行教学并着眼于被教育者能力开发的一种新型教育培训方法体系.积极研究、探讨并坚定不移地实施案例教学法,极大地促进了党校教学理论与实践的结合,促进了教员与学员综合素质的提高,使党校教学焕发出新的生机和活力,走出了一条党校教学改革的成功之路.     

论党对干部选任的领导与建设高素质干部队伍--对中共昆明市西山区委领导干部选拔任用工作的实证研究

领导好干部选任工作,是充分实现党管干部的重要组成部分。为此,中共昆明市西山区委无论在过程,还是结果领导方面,都作了有益的探索。     

Populism,privilege, and democracy in Henry James’s The Bostonians: encounters with community

ABSTRACT

Unusually for Henry James, The Bostonians (1886) addresses notions of “the people,” popular movements, and socio-political reform. Foregrounding the position of women, the narrative searchingly, if ambiguously, appraises conditions in the United States of the 1870s, following the Civil War. As Olive Chancellor (a Boston feminist) and Basil Ransom (a conservative Southerner) vie for possession of the malleable orator Verena Tarrant, the text explores the failure of “union” in both its personal and political senses. The populist-feminist rally concluding the narrative highlights the prevailing challenges to democratic possibilities. Community in its traditionally cohesive guise has metamorphosed into the “inoperative community” theorized by Jean-Luc Nancy. Mutually dependent, monadic “singularities” converge in tense encounter. “Community,” according to Roberto Esposito, inevitably separates such vulnerable “singularities” from themselves and others through the play of social relationality. The novel’s democratic orientation is nonetheless sustained by its capacious form and the hospitable engagement of its readers.     

“Cultures of populism: institutions and hegemonic practices” – a brief introduction

ABSTRACT

This short Introduction sets the context for the nine articles included in Safundi’s special issue on “Cultures of Populism: Institutions and Hegemonic Practices” (Vol. 21, no. 3) by establishing connections with the colloquium of the same name that was hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 10th until 13th July 2019. At the conference, populism (whether of the political right or the left) was examined in relation to democracy, the role of elites, and possible futures for the Humanities. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, papers considered the diverse histories of populism, as well as varied occurrences of this phenomenon across the globe.     

试析“网络民主”特征及其对民主政治发展的影响

网络已成为具有广泛性的社会联系和交流媒介.由于网络中"电子人"其心理、思维、行为方式发生变异,使"网络民主"产生不同特征,从而对民主政治发展发生作用和影响.     

从宗藩体制向近代外交的转型--奕訢北京和谈新论

北京和谈是在清政府无力抵抗英法联军侵略的条件下被迫与西方列强进行的谈判,大体上可分为关于放还巴夏礼等人交涉和关于罢兵和谈交涉两个阶段.它是晚清外交体制由宗藩关系的传统外交向近代外交转型的转折点,表现出突破传统的"夷夏之防"、进一步加深对西方列强的认识、促进近代外交机构--"总理各国事务衙门"的产生等特征.