论党内基层民主及其建设

党内基层民主建设是党内民主建设的基础工程,也是激发基层党组织活力、提高基层党组织领导水平和执政能力的重要手段。党内基层民主建设既是一个不断探索和创新的实践过程,同时也是一个需要不断对其内涵、目标、特点,以及实现的制度路径进行理论思考和研究的过程。     

深化党校教学改革 不断提高教学科研水平

面对新形势新要求,适应大规模培训干部的需要,必须深化党校教学改革,提高教学科研管理水平和教学质量。     

“电子党务”建设的民主价值意义

积极推进“电子党务”建设,将党务党建工作置于先进的网络技术平台,是我们党在新形势下继续发展壮大、实现与时俱进目标的必然选择。发展“电子党务”在很大程度上扩大了党内民主的涵盖面,增强了党内民主的辐射力,对推动广大民众和普通党员民主参与、民主监督我们的党务党建工作以及对党的决策的民主化、科学化有着十分重要的意义。     

调整收入分配关系的路径选择——学习党的十七届五中全会精神

收入分配问题是社会各界普遍关注的热点和焦点问题,它事关人民群众生活是否幸福安康和能否维护尊严,关乎改革开放成果能否由广大人民群众共享,也关系到社会是否和谐、公平和正义。进一步改革完善收入分配制度,要完善市场经济体制,实现收入分配相对公平;要完善税制,缩小社会收入分配差距;要消除行政性行业垄断,控制垄断行业收入;要完善基本公共服务均等化和社会保障制度;要解决我国城乡居民收入分配差距。     

思想政治工作要注重社会心理研究

社会心理研究在思想政治工作中占有极其重要的地位,对增强思想政治工作科学性、前瞻性和时效性具有重要作用。当前思想政治常规工作中,对社会心理仍缺乏深入细致的研究,以致其价值与功能难以有效发挥,滞后于实践的发展。在新的历史条件下,要注重党风与社会心理关系、大众文化与社会心理关系以及社会心理的对策性等方面研究,以进一步拓展思想政治工作新视野,发挥思想政治工作新效能,提高思想政治工作的可操作性。     

加强干部教育与党校图书馆建设

大规模培训干部、大幅度提高干部素质是提高党的执政能力的迫切需要，也是新时代赋予各级党校的神圣使命和重要职责。党校图书馆作为党校的重要职能部门，是搞好党校干部教育的重要基础，但其目前还存在着思想观念陈旧、馆藏资源短缺等问题。因此，党校图书馆应通过转变传统观念、开发馆藏资源等方式，不断提高服务读者的能力，以适应新时期干部教育的需求。     

“私代履行人”的理论定位及规范建议

虽然《行政强制法》规定行政强制措施权不得委托给私人,但是在代履行中,却存在着"私代履行人"参与公法任务的空间。"私代履行人"理应被定位为行政助手。然而,作为公私协力的模式之一,行政助手理论制度存在一系列争议,需要对委托机关与"私代履行人"的法律关系性质、"私代履行人"的代理权行使及其侵权的行政救济等问题消除歧见。在此基础上,对"私代履行人"的条件、职责、权利义务、诉讼途径及法律责任等进行规范建议。     

The Role of Language in the Automatic Coding of Political Texts

Automatic approaches to coding party manifestos and other political texts have become more widespread. This research note addresses the question to what extent the source language of a text affects the results. To do so, Swiss manifestos in German and French are coded automatically, comparing a keyword‐based dictionary approach and Wordscores. Because of language differences, both stemming and particularly stop words are important to obtain comparable results for Wordscores. If both are used, the predicted scores are almost identical in both languages. With the right preparations, the challenge of language differences can thus be overcome.     

A Slow and Painful Death? Political Parties and Local Democracy in Two Northern Towns

This paper assesses the state of local political parties in the UK, using case study material generated via a comparative study of local democracy in Burnley and Harrogate. It considers the challenges facing local political parties arising from the transition from local government to local governance and the ‘diversification’ of mechanisms through which local residents relate to local public agencies. The paper argues that local parties have reached an advanced state of decline, reflected in the erosion of third parties and, in the case of Burnley, the rise of the British National Party. The paper concludes with proposals for reinvigorating local parties, as part of a broader agenda of reviving local democracy in the UK.     

Germany: a good model for Labour Party renewal?

The policy debate within the British Labour Party after its traumatic electoral defeat in 2010 has been marked by a concern with Germany's system of economic governance as a potential model for renewal. The desirability of emulating key aspects of its institutions of economic democracy (codetermination) has been a particular subject of debate. This article analyses the source of Germany's attraction for many would-be reformers in the Labour movement. It then examines whether emulating German codetermination is either a feasible or appropriate strategy for Labour reformers whose goal is to rebalance power between capital and labour. Codetermination is deeply embedded in a wider set of governance institutions that have been subject to substantial reform in recent years. It concludes that effective institutional borrowing from Germany would require a far broader and more radical set of economic governance reforms than Labour reformers appear to recognise.