A Watershed in White House Journalism: Explaining the Post-1968 Rise of Aggressive Presidential News

Presidential journalism is known to have grown substantially more aggressive through the 1970s and beyond, but a definitive explanation for this trend remains elusive. Some suggest that events surrounding Vietnam and Watergate transformed the professional norms of journalism. However, the trend could also be a more superficial and transitory response to other circumstantial factors that converged in the same time period, such as president-level characteristics (the prevalence of Republicans, Washington outsiders, and more vigorous news management efforts), the political environment (the rise of official discord), and the economic environment (a downturn in the business cycle). This study disentangles these various factors and assesses their relative success in explaining trends in journalistic conduct in the postwar era. Data are drawn from a large sample of presidential news conferences from 1953 through 2000, focusing on the aggressiveness of journalists' questions. The results strongly support the normative shift hypothesis, although economic factors have also been consequential. These results suggest a punctuated equilibrium model of journalistic change in relations between the White House press corps and the presidency.     

Commentary on Mazlish: “The hi-jacking of global society”

Abstract

History and traditions are important for many civil society organizations (CSOs). However, CSOs have to mediate between their original mission and modern-day realities. This article argues that understanding the concept of decoupling can enrich analyses of how organizations deal with path dependency. Hence, this article discusses cross-fertilization between historical and organizational institutionalism. This is illustrated through a study of Swedish CSOs using survey data, interviews and documents. The Swedish popular movement tradition is argued to be a path that is not easily abandoned, and the results of the surveys and interviews included here show how actors in CSOs find history to be both a resource and a constraint. Furthermore, different decoupling strategies, including both reversed and official decoupling, are used to balance between historical legacies and current challenges.     

浅谈责任政府的实现途径——基于行政伦理视角

责任政府的英现可以从外部控制和内部控制两个维度进行，实现责任政府的最佳途径是保持内部控制和外部控制之间的平衡。因此，加强公务员的伦理自主性是责任政府实现的一条有效的新路径。     

Family Ties: The Political Genealogy of Shining Path's Comrade Norah

Family was central to the political life of Augusta La Torre (or Comrade Norah), the second‐in‐command of the Peruvian Communist Party‐Shining Path (PCP‐SL). La Torre was the daughter of a Communist Party militant and the granddaughter of a prominent provincial political figure. She was also the wife of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán. La Torre's familial history demonstrates the importance of parental and grandparental contributions to Senderistas' political formation, and suggests that parents and children were sometimes united in their support for the Shining Path. La Torre's family ties, however, have also led numerous observers to question her revolutionary credentials.     

国际干预的法理辨析及其现实发展出路

国际干预是国际关系理论研究中的常见话题。随着经济全球化的加速发展,国际干预的现实发展呈现出更为复杂的新现象。因此,在梳理、辨析＂干预＂与＂干涉＂基本理论的基础上,探讨现代国际干预历史发展进程中的新现象及＂人道主义＂国际干预的国际法理,可以对国际干预的合法性和非法性作出明确的价值判断。重视和强化联合国在合法国际干预中的主导地位,国际干预的决策机制应进一步民主化、完善化,国际干预的实施必须具备更为明确的标准,不断健全国际干预的协调、执行、指挥、管理、监督机制,严格界定并遵守国家在国际干预中的权利、义务和责任,这是当前国际社会合法性国际干预的路径依赖。     

大学生村官乡土化的路径分析

大学生村官对农村的发展起着非常重要的作用，但在实现乡土化的过程中也面临一些障碍。可通过对大学生村官的教育和培训、提高待遇、扶持创业、实施“大学生回乡计划”等一系列措施来实现大学生村官的乡土化。     

后实证主义的政府信任关系研究

由于主流公共行政对管理技术、经验和官僚文化的强调,实证主义成为政府信任问题研究的认识论途径.但仅仅通过客观和实证的手段,无法创新性地满足社会转型的变革要求并彻底解决现实矛盾,故而需要在政府信任关系研究的起点、路径和方法方面实现后实证主义转向,即以类型划分入手对政府信任关系进行结构分析,遵循总体性原则下的构成主义路径,在...     

良性司法伦理体系构建路径之探析——以法官伦理为视角

司法伦理是社会对法律人在法律适用过程中的行为具有应然意义上的规范和法律人内心价值追求的自在规范。构建良性的司法伦理体系对于实现法治、促进社会和谐发展具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

路径依赖：强政府体制下的上海司法社工实践——以J区G社工点为例

由于上海市司法社工是由政府设计和推动的,它在实践过程中仍然按照以往行政化管理的路径,政府为社工提供体制内资源,社工在政府的制度安排下主要依赖行政资源开展活动。地方政府通过行政手段不断涉入,影响着司法社工运作和管理。     

Childhood Sexual Abuse,Other Childhood Factors,and Pathways to Survivors’ Adult Relationship Quality

We were interested in understanding how the effects of childhood sexual abuse, in concert with other negative childhood experiences, were carried forward into adult romantic relationships. Data from 15,831 married or cohabitating individuals were gathered via the RELATE Questionnaire. Empirical research, attachment theory, and a general model of adult relationship quality suggested that the path from negative childhood events to adult relationship quality was mediated by a number of individual and relational affect-laden variables. Results showed that childhood abuse and other family-of-origin variables work primarily through the adult survivor’s perceptions of the events of his or her childhood. This “current impact” variable, along with the current level of depression, work through an emotion-laden relationship variable—level of emotional flooding during couple conflict—to influence the relationship quality outcome variable. Treatment implications are discussed.