牢记“两个务必”增进公安高校思想政治工作新活力

高校是社会主义先进文化的先锋力量。搞好公安高校建设 ,做好公安高校思想政治工作 ,就必须认真学习践行“两个务必”。“两个务必”体现了党的根本宗旨。在新形势下始终做到“两个务必” ,将为公安高校思想政治工作注入新的内容和新的活力 ,将为公安高校思想政治工作指明前进的方向 ,将极大推动公安高校思想政治工作理论与实践的更大发展。     

Electoral engineering in Chile: the electoral system and limited democracy

On the eve of Chile's transition from military to elected government, the outgoing regime enacted an electoral engineering project intended to conserve the constitutional order it encoded in 1980. An analysis of 1989 and 1993 general elections shows that the way votes are translated into seats favors, as intended, the second largest electoral block, the Chilean Right. This bias, along with the number of appointed senators and the special majorities required for constitutional amendments, gives the Right a minority veto power on any reform initiative. Moreover, the electoral system produces incentives for parties, candidates and voters that enhances this balance of power. The role that the electoral system plays in Chile therefore consolidates a limited form of democracy, rather than a liberal one.     

Party opportunism among local politicians after Taiwan’s power transition

This paper probes into a hypothesised opportunism towards political party affiliation among local politicians in Taiwan since the power transition from Kuomintang (KMT) to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rule began in 2000. Longitudinal changes in election candidates' party affiliation are analysed to see what happened to the KMT's supposedly strong base of local politicians after the change of governing party. The research finds a generally high propensity of election candidates' changing or dropping their party affiliation between elections, and an increased propensity among KMT candidates after 2000. However, defections to other parties are more common in higher elections. In grassroots elections, many candidates flow in and out of their party affiliation depending on the political circumstances, but they rarely change party. Several years after the DPP gained power in presidential elections, the new ruling party is still struggling to build a strong local party organisation.     

应对突发公共事件的新理念——试析《国家突发公共事件总体应急预案》

《国家突发公共事件总体应急预案》充分反映了当代公共行政的价值取向,体现了政府应对突发公共事件的新理念;认真研究和把握这些精神和理念,有利于我们积极、主动应对和处置各类突发公共事件,实现处置突发公共事件的人本化、法治化和科学化。     

我国中央与地方立法权限的划分

《立法法》采取列举的方式明确了中央与地方立法权限的划分,具有一定的开拓精神和现实意义。但它的规定存在局限性,没有从根本上改变中央和地方立法工作中出现的混乱和无序等现象。对于中央和地方立法权限的划分,应当以其制约因素为切入点,进而分析目前立法规定和立法实践中存在的问题,从而厘清我国中央和地方立法权限划分的思路和方法,推动我国的法治建设。     

参政党要为发展社会主义民主政治服务

十六大把发展社会主义民主政治 ,建设社会主义政治文明 ,作为全面建设小康社会的重要目标 ,进一步明确了社会主义民主政治建设的战略地位、指导原则和前进方向。作为参政党在发展和完善社会主义民主制度的过程中 ,要坚持中国共产党的领导 ,充分发挥多党合作和政治协商制度的优势 ,发挥参政党在社会主义民主建设中的作用 ,为推进人民民主服务。     

System failure: it's not just the media — the whole political system has failed

This paper provides a critique of attempts in the field of political communication to explain apparent voter apathy and declining electoral turnout. The response of many commentators is either to blame the media for the problem or to see the media as the solution to any problem that might exist. First, the paper examines the ‘blame the media’ school of thought—as exemplified by liberal commentators in the UK and the USA. Secondly, the paper focuses on the ‘optimists’ who argue that the spin/media nexus is either morally neutral or may actually be improving citizen involvement. The paper argues that both approaches are flawed at the level of conceptualisation and of methodology. The narrow conceptualisation of the field means that even in the unusual cases where scholars look beyond the question of elections, the research agenda is still fixed at the level of media power and not on how the media fit into a wider system of power relations. Most obviously, the field tends to avoid the question of political and economic outcomes. The paper ends by suggesting that the problem of disengagement from formal politics is a response to the crisis of legitimacy in the institutions of democracy in the USA and UK. Copyright © 2004 Henry Stewart Publications     

社会性别与政治学

历史上大多数时期的政治学都是无视性别的,它将男性价值观念与经验作为人类生活的全部内容予以表现和描述,表现出严重的性别歧视现象.20世纪70年代,伴随着西方女权主义运动发展起来的用来揭示男女两性社会关系的重要理论-社会性别理论,对这种政治学进行了批判和重建.作为政治过程产物的公共政策体现社会性别意识是当代政府义不容辞的责任.     

政治知识化:早发型国家的经验与后发型国家的补构

早发型国家的政治发展经验表明 ,政治知识化是政治合法性认同的重要基石。后发型国家应尽快在此补课