Policy Adoption and Policy Intensity: Emergence of Climate Adaptation Planning in U.S. States

The United States is experiencing growing impacts of climate change but currently receives a limited policy response from its national leadership. Within this policy void, many state governments are stepping up and taking action on adaptation planning. Yet we know little about why some states adopt State Adaptation Plans (SAPs), while others do not. This article investigates factors that predict the emergence of SAPs, both in terms of policy adoption and policy intensity (goal ambitiousness). Applying the diffusion of innovation theory, I consider the relative influence of internal state characteristics, regional pressures, and test for conditional effects between government ideologies and severity of the problem. The results show interesting differences between predictors that influence policy adoption and ambitiousness. States are more motivated to adopt a policy when faced with greater climate vulnerability, have more liberal citizenry, and where governments have crossed policy hurdles by previously passing mitigation plans. The intensity of policies and goal setting, moreover, is more likely to be driven by interest group politics and diffuse through policy learning or sharing information among neighboring states in Environmental Protection Agency regions. These findings support an emerging scholarship that uses more complex dependent variables in policy analysis. These variables have the potential to differentiate symbolic from substantive policies and capture finer information about predictors of importance.     

UN Peace Operations and Conflicting Legitimacies

ABSTRACT

Analyses of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping increasingly consider legitimacy a key factor for success, conceiving of it as a resource that operations should seek and use in the pursuit of their goals. However, these analyses rarely break down legitimacy by source. Because the UN is an organization with multiple identities and duties however, different legitimacy sources – in particular output and procedural legitimacy – and the UN’s corresponding legitimation practices come into conflict in the context of peacekeeping. Drawing on a range of examples and the specific case of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), this article argues that looking at different legitimacy sources and linking them to the institutional identity of the UN is thus critical, and it shows how the UN’s contradictory legitimation practices can reduce overall legitimacy perceptions.     

拉开城市布局,调整城市结构,建设现代化中心城市——关于进一步调整广州市城市规划布局的思考

改革开放以来 ,随着广州迅速的工业化和城市化进程 ,布局不合理和功能混杂的问题仍相当突出。进入 2 1世纪 ,广州要建设成为现代化的中心城市 ,必须拉开城市布局 ,调整城市结构。     

资源型城镇产业接续机制与实证

该文提出“在资源鼎盛期率先打造产业接替的基础条件、规避资源枯竭后再进行转型的世界性难题”的观点,指出矿区工业-生态产业链的结构设计是解决矿区传统经济发展方式与生态环境之间尖锐矛盾的有效途径.以平朔矿区为例,从循环经济角度,分析了矿区工业-生态产业链结构设计的必要性和可行性,探讨了矿区工业-生态产业链结构设计的目标、原则和依据.在矿区现有资源和条件基础上,构建了两条相互依存的产业链:一是以煤为主,电、化、硅铝、建材并举的黑色工业产业链；二是以土地复垦与复垦土地利用为主,种、养、加一体化的绿色生态产业链；对其产业链的结构、功能和效益进行了分析,提出了在矿区工业-生态产业链实施过程中应注意的关键问题.     

毒品公开查缉的程序应用及评测

毒品公开查缉是指执法部门根据查缉毒品的需要,依法采取的以公开方式在边境地区、交通要道、口岸、山间通道、收费站以及飞机场、火车站、长途汽车站、码头、货运物流场所对来往人员、物品、货物、交通工具进行检查、盘查以及现场处置等措施,以期查获毒品、易制毒化学品、毒品原植物、种子及其幼苗的一项专门工作。公开查缉的基本任务是预防、发现、打击毒品违法犯罪活动,将走私渗透入境的毒品堵截查获在辖区内,努力减少毒品内流造成更大的社会危害。同时开展双向查缉,堵截易制毒化学品非法走私外流出境。     

以素质教育为主题推进教育事业的全面发展

《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十一个五年规划的建议》对科教兴国和人才强国战略作了重要部署。为了保证人才强国战略的实施,《建议》重申了坚持教育优先发展、全面实施素质教育的方针。为了贯彻这一方针,必须落实科学发展观,以素质教育为主题,着力完成“普及、发展、提高”三大任务,推进教育事业全面协调可持续发展。     

西部区域生态移民的科学性和运作模式——对甘肃省民勤县以水定人的调查和分析

本文以对甘肃省民勤县的深入调查为基础,按照以水定人的思路,在认真分析目前该县的水生态环境对人口发展、经济增长和社会进步的严重影响的基础上,提出了具体的生态移民的规划思路、移民设计和运作模式等。     

“依法治国”和“以德治国”并举思想的重大理论意义和实践意义

江总书记提出的”依法治国”和“以德治国”的并举思想，是“法治”与“德治”辩证法的科学总结；是发展市场经济，建设有中国特色社会主义的客观要求；它不是简单的施政策略，而是新时期治理国家的伟大方略，所以具有十分重大的理论意义和实践意义。     

统筹城乡模式下的乡村治理:制度创新与模式设计

在比较中西四种乡村治理模式基础上,致力于从乡村治理演化轨迹、价值诉求方面探讨统筹城乡模式下的一体化、市场化、民主化、系统化价值目标体系,进而从四大主体、五大关系论证统筹城乡模式下乡村治理制度创新理念及其实现路径.     

广西专业市场规划建设的经验及启示

大力发展专业市场对扩大内需,拉动消费,培育新的经济增长点,促进产业结构调整,完善城市功能等具有十分重要的意义。在对南宁、柳州、贵港、玉林四市专业市场规划建设进行充分调研的基础上,文章总结出了专业市场规划建设的一整套行之有效的经验,为新兴城市加快专业市场的规划建设提供了若干可供咨鉴的启示。