Democracy and the multinationals

The relationship between western multinational corporations' perceived commercial interests and democratic quality in developing markets is more varied than habitually argued. While autocratic policy making and low-intensity democracy have been judged to provide benefits to investors, they are also increasingly recognized to generate features prejudicial to commercial operations. Many investment trends reflect the adverse impact of democratic limitations in developing markets. Multinational companies can be faulted less for a uniform effort to frustrate democratic improvements than for a failure to develop a coherent or proactive engagement in relation to the international democracy promotion agenda.     

Actively Cultivating Policy Similarity. A Regional Strategy in Education Policy in France and Germany

Regionalization processes across Western Europe have triggered analyses of regional policy divergence. Yet, in a number of cases, regional governments appear to have deliberately strived to achieve policy conformity. Previous research tends to emphasize exogenous explanations of regional policy convergence. In contrast, this paper addresses the issue of regional policy convergence by focusing on endogenous explanatory factors. Its objective is to carry out an investigation of when, how, and with what effect a ‘desire for conformity’ arises, and contends that regional governments may actively cultivate policy similarity as a strategy to develop or secure their policy capacity. Specifically, the paper argues that the adoption of this strategy is contingent upon two requirements that may or may not be met, and that its outcome is the convergence on targeted dimensions of regional policies. The two requirements are: (i) a countrywide public preference for policy uniformity in the policy area of concern, and (ii) the presence of a threat posed to regional policy capacity by various political entrepreneurs, including the central state, who blame regions for providing divergent policies on particular dimensions. This paper is based on the comparison of two case studies where regional governments deliberately pursued policy conformity on targeted dimensions of their education policy: school-building policy in France and curricula policy in Germany. The two case studies also present dissimilar features that make it possible to investigate the effects of institutional setting and policy distribution on the adoption and operation of the active-cultivation-of-policy-similarity strategy.     

高等学校学生处分权研究——以教育仲裁为视角的考察

学生处分权是高等学校教育管理权内容,是高等学校依据法律、法规或大学章程对违犯国家法律、法规和学校纪律的学生实施惩戒的权力。高等学校处分权特殊性质和我国以和为贵的传统文化,都与教育仲裁机制相契合,这为我国构建教育仲裁纠纷解决机制打下了坚实的基础。     

信息网络时代国防生思想政治教育新探

当今社会处于信息网络时代,在此时代背景之下,信息网络正对人们的工作、学习、生活、思维等生存方式的方方面面产生着广泛而深刻的影响,它必然也会对国防生思想政治教育产生一定的影响。其中,国防生的心里动态、思想信念、政治理想受到的影响尤为明显。针对新情况、新问题,探寻出新的思想政治教育对策,就显得十分迫切与重要。     

公安高职院校教学质量监控体系的构建理念

公安高职院校以培养高素质应用型公安后备人才为使命,人才培养质量是衡量高职院校综合办学能力、办学水平高低的重要标准,而教学质量则直接影响甚至决定人才培养的质量。因此,为了提高公安高职院校人才培养质量,就必须建立一套高效和谐的教学质量监控体系,及时发现、正确分析并有效解决教学中的相关问题。本文结合甘肃警察职业学院构建教学质量监控体系的实际,就公安高职院校构建教学质量监控体系进行理论和实践的探讨。     

高职院校“基础”课教学考核与评价方式改革研究

《思想道德修养与法律基础》作为高职院校思想政治理论课的入门课程,承担着对大学生进行思想政治教育的重任。目前,该课程在教学实践中存在着教学形式僵化、考核评价方式死板等问题。为改变这一现状,可以在推行课堂教学改革、落实课程实践环节的基础上,通过完善考核内容、调整分数比例、设置教学评价等级等方式,进行考核与评价方式的改革。     

浅谈高校辅导员应具备的人格面貌

高校辅导员作为对大学生进行思想政治教育、塑造其健康人格的重要力量,其人格面貌状况直接影响大学生的人格成长,通过对高校辅导员政治人格、道德品质、业务知识、应时能力及人生态度等人格面貌的探讨,能够更好地发挥其思想政治教育的生力军作用。     

网络文化对高校青年学生价值观的影响及对策

网络的发展对人们的工作、生活以及价值观念产生了重大影响,由网络衍生出来的网络文化,在体现社会进步的同时,也给我国高校青年学生价值观教育也带来了严重的冲击。应加强高校网络德育工程建设,完善校园网建设,加强高校德育队伍建设,以利于青年学生价值观的形成和发展。     

试论北京奥运会志愿服务的德育功能

当前,高校德育的实效还没有达到社会的期望。提高高校德育实效性的重要环节就是要改变传统“灌输式”的德育模式,结合时代背景和社会热点,构建大学生德育教育体系。奥运会具有国际化和全民性的特征,是高校开展德育的重要契机,奥运期间及奥运后的大学生志愿服务活动具有特殊的德育功能。     

志愿服务:青少年公民教育的新途径

志愿服务作为青少年公民参与社会活动、履行社会责任的崭新方式,日益成为青少年公民教育的有效途径。本文尝试探讨青少年通过参与志愿服务,从而增强公民意识、提升公民素质、实现公民成长;同时,公民教育的深入开展,又是促进公民参与志愿服务、实观志愿服务兴旺发展的重要基础,两者互相效力,共同发展。