严复教育救国思想新探

严复是中国近代著名的启蒙思想家之一,于学无所不窥,在近代治西学者,无其比也。深厚的西学功底,使得严复更能洞彻中国贫弱的症结所在,旗帜鲜明地提出以鼓民力、开民智、新民德为核心理念的教育救国论。在指出科举取士与传统学术的弊端之后,进而身体力行地通过办报馆、译西书、兴学堂来增广见闻、传播西学、开启民智。严复的教育救国论的特质体现为:以社会有机体论为基础的致思理路、冶中西于一炉的教育理念。     

试论传统价值观与当代青年社会主义核心价值观的构建

社会转型期,当代青年对传统价值观的认知呈现出明显的矛盾,本文从认知现状显示出的困境及成因人手,着重分析社会主义核心价值观中的传统价值观部分,按照社会主义核心价值体系的要求,探讨传统价值观在构建当代青年社会主义核心价值观过程中的自主引导作用。     

试论中国革命型传统政治文化的转型与创新

革命型传统政治文化是中国传统政治文化的重要组成部分,形成于中国共产党领导人民争取民族独立解放,摆脱外来殖民统治和官僚资本主义的革命斗争时代。经由建国后60余年的风雨变迁,依然保持着对当代社会重要的影响力。进入21世纪之后,随着改革开放的不断深入,要求必须实现中国传统政治文化的转型与创新。只有这样,才能使包括革命型传统政治文化在内的中国传统政治文化继续施展其积极的影响力,保持中国政治文化特有的气质,使当代中国政治文化建设沿着适合自己国情的道路继续前进。     

大学生社会主义核心价值观认同基础研究——以中华优秀传统文化为视角

中华优秀传统文化,是社会主义核心价值观的重要来源,也是其重要组成部分。挖掘中华民族优秀传统文化,汲取华夏文明精华,是建设社会主义现代化国家的必然举措,也是实现民族复兴,实现中国梦,培育和践行社会主义核心价值观的文化土壤。正如习总书记所说:"我们提倡和弘扬社会主义核心价值观,必须从中华优秀传统文化中汲取营养"。因此,在中华优秀传统文化视域下,拓宽社会主义核心价值观的认同基础,增强大学生的文化自信、文化自觉、文化自为,既有必要性,也有必须性,是科学性和合理性的辩证统一、合目的性与合工具性的完美结合。     

科学发展观对中国传统民本思想的继承与创新

以科学发展观“以人为本”为本质和核心,凸显了社会发展的价值取向和人性目的。科学发展观中的以人为本思想汲取了中国传统民本思想的精华,同时又结合现阶段中国社会实际,赋予发展理论全新的时代内涵和实践要求,实现了理论的升华和飞跃。本文从传统民本思想这一视角,深入分析了科学发展观的以人为本思想对中国传统文化继承与创新的具体表现。     

Decentralization in Africa and the Resilience of Traditional Authorities: Evaluating Zimbabwe's Track Record

Abstract

This paper looks at one of the most important endogenous factors influencing the workings of decentralization in Zimbabwe. Successive waves of formal institutional change that took place during Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history have been unable able to uproot the influence of traditional leaders. Due to their home-grown legitimacy, various traditional authorities continue to play an ever-present role in the lives of people in rural areas. But, as it is the case throughout most of Africa, the powers of traditional leaders have mostly been uncodified under modern law and these power relations tend to be rather informal and culturally inaccessible to most outsiders. Consequently, the scholarly literature has not been able to systematically acknowledge their pervasive influence. The article concludes with a reflection on how the influence of traditional authorities can be translated into the democratic and progressive empowerment of rural populations in the developing world.     

杜威的直接经验主义原理探究

直接经验主义是杜威思想早期的一个概念,也是杜威在尝试着建构自己的经验理论,反对传统哲学的第一步,它是打开杜威"经验论"大门的一把不可或缺的钥匙。杜威将经验分为直接经验和间接经验两种,通过强调直接经验的直接性、关涉性以及与反省经验之间的连续性,来弥补传统经验主义的缺陷,进而批判理性主义的统治。     

民族传统文化在当今的意义、命运与前景

民族传统文化是民族向心力、凝聚力的基础与核心,是国际竞争中起决定性作用的软实力所在,是实现中华民族伟大复兴的根基与动力,我们须予以切实保护、大力弘扬、锐意创新。     

A critical understanding of good governance and leadership concepts written in the context of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the challenges to contextual discourse on Africa's development paradigms1

ABSTRACT

Good governance is a value-laden concept that is characteristically nebulous; it can mean different things to different people, depending on the context in which it is used. The same applies to leadership. Concepts, as Pauw (1999a, 465) puts it, are ‘tools of thinking’ and contexts are ‘the environments or frameworks in which they [concepts] operate’. Lucidity in the meanings of concepts is fundamentally important for shaping debate and enriching discourses. To maintain their power, concepts must be used in their proper contexts. This necessitates an understanding of the art of contextual discourse. Good governance is used in NEPAD as a principle and emphasised as a sine qua non for sustainable development in Africa. On the other hand, NEPAD premises Africa's re-birth or Renaissance on good governance and leadership, with a vision and commitment to repositioning the continent in global power balances. In this article good governance and leadership are considered as concepts. NEPAD is a textual context within which the two key concepts are used and should, consequently, be engaged. The article attempts a critical review of African scholarship engagement with good governance and leadership within the NEPAD context to determine the extent to which contextual discourse is practised. It further grapples with the immediate historical background to scholarship on Africa's development between the 1960s and early 1990s. The exercise reveals that much of the accumulated body of African scholarship and scholarship on Africa's development reviewed does not suffciently contextualise discourse on good governance and leadership within NEPAD, and its key assessment and monitoring device, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), and offers an alternative framework.     

Financial Discrepancies in Political Party Funding by Indonesian Local Government Authorities

Through different forms of decentralization variables, this study investigates Indonesian local government authorities' 2006 financial accountability reports in terms of local government authorities' contributing funds to political parties. Audit results by the Supreme Audit Body reveal that many articles were violated by these authorities in regard to the distributing, administrating, and reporting of assistance funds from them to political parties. Each rupiah committed by the 221 local government authorities involved in this study violated, on average, 1.8 articles, indicating a low level of compliance.

Critically, the study finds that administrative, fiscal, and political decentralization decreases discrepancies. The less administratively decentralized provincial authorities, where decision making is a level of government farther from the people, are more likely than non-provincial local government authorities to make discrepancies with political party legislation and regulations. Fiscally decentralized local government authorities, who earn a higher fraction of their revenue from local sources, also tend to have fewer discrepanciesFinally, politically decentralized authorities with a higher percentage of elected officials from the decentralized supporting ruling coalition, also have fewer discrepancies.