和谐社会视域下的农村政治文化建设

农村政治文化建设是新农村建设的内在要求。当前,宗族观念盛行、民主法制观念淡薄、政治参与意识淡薄等因素制约着农村政治文化的发展。发展农村政治文化,应进在促进农村经济发展的基础上,加强相应制度建设,加强对农民的政治教育,并拓展农民政治参与的渠道,引导其积极参与民主政治的实践。     

论和谐进程中社会创造活力的科学激发

社会主义和谐社会是团结和睦的社会,更是充满创造活力的社会。社会和谐与社会充满创造活力二者是内在统一的。但随着构建社会主义和谐社会实践的不断推进,社会创造活力相对不足的问题日益显现。这有其现实的困境,更有其历史文化的成因。为此,我们要采取科学的战略举措,激发全社会的创造活力,以推动科学发展、促进社会和谐。     

宗教与中国公民社会建设——以基督教基层组织的运作模式为中心

公民社会的讨论,一直是国内学术界关注却没有结论的问题,如果把这一问题置于公民社会的论域中进行讨论,也许能够拓展这一问题的视域。例如我们不去直接寻找建构公民社会的某些条件,而是梳理了那些能够具有公民社会的基本要素,比如公民身份的信仰基础、宗教信仰共同体及共同体成员资格等问题就可以看出,对于那种从总体社会传统中走出来的现代中国而言,只要是能够在国家与市场之外具有一定的社会交往功能、社会组织功能的民间群体,它们就可能具有了一定的公民社会要素。中国社会中的基督教聚会,实际上就是一种这样的民间信仰群体。     

“满铁”对华经济掠夺问题新探

南满洲铁道株式会社对中国的经济掠夺,是以股份公司的形式作为伪装,执行日本帝国主义侵略掠夺中国的对外政策。＂满铁＂依靠特权建立起一个超乎中国主权和法律之上的＂满铁王国＂,构成了日本国家资本为主导,日本产业托拉斯和中小私人资本为辅助的经济体系。＂满铁＂通过这套经济体系,利用显性和隐性两种方式对我国进行经济掠夺、政治扩张、文化渗透,对中国的经济结构和民族工业造成了异常严重的破坏。     

Efficacy of Think Tanks in Influencing Public Policies: The Case of Bangladesh

Abstract

This article analyzes contextual and organizational challenges and constraints faced by think tanks in Bangladesh. It argues that while think tanks have been visible in the policy discourse through fostering policy debates and advocating policy proposals, their direct impact on policy outcomes remains limited. Think tanks’ research findings are often interpreted through the prism of politics. A number of think tanks are institutionally weak and face challenges in funding, attracting researchers, and retaining research focus. Think tanks can potentially focus attention to the wider policy community, and emphasize intermediate influences, such as, building capacity, wider networking and interacting with a broader base of policy-makers, in order to be effective and relevant in the policy discussions.     

现代社会道德困境的产生及其消解

道德是人们行为的准则和规范,道德的生成是为了更好地促进个人利益的实现和社会整体的发展.我国改革开放以来,经济社会等领域多方面问题的存在,制约着道德发展及作用的发挥,进而产生道德困境,影响着个人利益的实现与社会的发展.因此,通过从社会发展、社会制度、社会道德、社会风气角度去分析消解道德困境的路径,具有重要的现实意义和实践价值.     

Economic opening and society endogamy: migratory and reproduction logic in the Insubric mountains (18th and 19th centuries)

This article illustrates the character of the alpine and prealpine societies of the Insubric area, which is both open and closed. In these mountains, various migratory forms (periodic, temporary, and definitive) could be both exclusion and stability factors. Even if under a lineage model, family reproduction forms were close to a “unilineal” system. Yet, emigration left open pluriestablishement, the intensity of which depended on the openness of the local economy and demographic configuration of the households.     

Comment on John T. Metzger's “planned abandonment: The neighborhood life‐cycle theory and national urban policy”

Abstract

I take strong exception to the idea that theories of neighborhood change, in and of themselves, caused the decline of inner cities. Rather, the demographic, social, and economic forces that existed in the postwar years caused some inner‐city neighborhoods to decline. The replacement of working‐class and middle‐income households by households with much lower incomes, on average, was the single biggest cause of neighborhood decline. Metzger ignores this fact as an alternative explanation for why some neighborhoods declined. It is highly implausible that my theories and those of other urban experts had such a strong impact on the public policy, building, and finance communities. Because people were responding to real conditions, it is likely that the same events would have occurred even if my model of neighborhood change had never been developed.     

行政法视野下的公众参与制度

参与民主理论的发展,催生参与式行政的兴起,使之逐渐成为各国所普遍接受和采用的现代行政管理模式。参与式行政将公众纳入行政过程,促进行政的民主化、理性化、科学化。处于社会转型时期的中国,参与式行政是一项逐渐发展中的系统工程。通过分析公众参与的行政法价值,探讨构建公众参与制度的关键,为行政领域公众参与的法治化提供有价值的参考。     

Catastrophe risk

This paper examines the recent emergence of initiatives involving the reinsurance industry and the capital markets to develop mechanisms to finance the losses arising from catastrophic events. These initiatives are discussed from two perspectives. One perspective explores these financing mechanisms from the contention that catastrophic events are becoming increasingly non-insurable within contemporary risk society. In this regard the paper addresses issues relating to the coherence and sustainability of the risk networks underpinning efforts to maintain the insurability of catastrophic events. These catastrophe-financing initiatives are also discussed from a second, although related perspective. This refers to the very emergence of these different financing mechanisms. In this regard the moving potential of liberal government or the inventive mechanics driving the development of different ways to manage catastrophic risk become significant. The paper argues that the emergence of these different catastrophe-financing mechanisms is occurring at the intersection of concerns over the non-insurability of the catastrophic and the extremes of capitalist ingenuity, suggesting both perspectives might offer insights into some of the possible future trajectories of risk society.