加强和创新四川藏区社会管理的实践与思考

近年来,四川藏区在对牧民定居点、寺庙及僧人、流动人口与特殊群体、境外非政府组织和民间组织的服务管理中,树立以人为本、服务为先的理念,开展了一系列加强和创新社会管理工作,努力化解影响社会和谐稳定的突出问题,有力推进了藏区跨越式发展与长治久安。但在工作中也存在覆盖面不广、人员经费不足、重管理轻服务等问题。未来应进一步扩大工作覆盖面、创新服务管理方式、建立常态工作机制、加强人员经费保障,推动四川藏区社会管理再上新台阶,为维护全省社会和谐稳定做出新贡献。     

中国特色社会主义为“中国梦”鸣锣开道

“中国梦”是基于中国特色社会主义实践而提出的伟大梦想,中国特色社会主义是实现中国梦的坚实基础。中国特色社会主义理论体系为“中国梦”提供重大战略思想;中国特色社会主义道路明确实现中国梦的“两个百年”目标;中国特色社会主义制度是追求“中国梦”的道路上需要坚持、完善和发展的具体制度形式。梳理中国特色社会主义的发展历程,归纳中国特色社会主义与“中国梦”的关系,有助于“中国梦”的实现,以及中国特色社会主义的进一步丰富和发展。     

权力转移论、制度主义论与美国的对华战略

21世纪以来,中国经历了快速的发展,进而在2010年成为仅次于美国的世界第二大经济体。中国的崛起在美国国际关系理论界引发了激烈的辩论,并出现两种观点相互对立的理论:权力转移论和制度主义论。两种理论视角针对中国崛起提出不同的预测:中国崛起带来的是挑战,还是制度建设的机遇。通过深入分析这两种理论,我们可以更加清楚地了解美国近期在东亚针对中国的一系列政治动向背后的意图和动机。     

网络舆论监督的新系统分析

网络舆论监督是舆论监督的特殊形式,网络舆论监督包括舆论生成和政治影响两个环节,经典的系统论只能解释网络舆论的输入为什么能够引起政府相应的回应,不能回答充当系统输入的网络舆论是如何生成的和影响程度如何;而网络监督的新政治系统论的分析框架有助于全面解析网络舆论监督的全过程,诠释网络舆论的生成条件和逻辑。     

Korean elites: Social networks and power

During the period of rapid industrialisation, Korean business elites sought to establish a ruling alliance of state officials, politicians, business owners, and professional managers that formed a social coalition to influence the state and society as a whole, reinforced through extensive social and political networks with various ruling groups. The elite community has generated a high degree of self-recruitment and social closure through school, marriage and kinship networks. In this way, the leading sector of the Korean business elite has formed complex, often contingent, relations with the state elite, and acts as an integral part of the upper class in society.     

Notes on contributors

In the Kosovo crisis, Germany for the first time since 1955 joined NATO military combat operations in a major way. While this has often been interpreted as a fundamental major departure ('normalisation') in Germany's post‐war foreign policy, this article argues that Germany's willingness to contemplate joining a NATO war even without a mandate by the UN Security Council represents an evolution, rather than a fundamental change in Germany's foreign policy orientation. This evolution can be explained best as a logical and consistent response of Germany's foreign policy identity which reconciled, through modification, its traditional post war foreign policy identity as a ‘civilian power’ to a radically different security environment.     

Apartheid,Jim Crow,and Comparative Literature

This article examines John Greyson’s film, Proteus, for the way it figures queer masculinity and race in South Africa’s national historical narrative. The film offers an esthetic rendering of an eighteenth century interracial sodomy trial set on Robben Island. Drawing on contemporary queer theory and recent South African narratives of masculinity that privilege heternormativity and nationalism, this paper argues that the film carves out a space for queer identity within national history where it had previously been denied. The paper traces the way that the film interjects queer narratives into South Africa’s national identity, disrupts the heteronormalization of various sites of national iconography on South Africa’s historical terrain (such as Robben Island), and offers a queer masculinity that resists racial segregation. Moreover, this paper traces the ways that the film has implications for contemporary queer communities within South Africa.     

Impediments to the implementation of voluntary codes of conduct in production factories of the Global South: so much to do,so little done

A common consequence of the fragmented supply practices of multinational corporations are unfair and exploitative working conditions in the global South. Many corporations face this, and the resulting reputational damage, by installing voluntary codes of conduct in their supplier factories, leading to a vast range of implementation practices by the factory managers. Despite this effort, the literature shows that the positive impact of these codes on labour conditions in such factories remains insufficient. This article argues that this insufficiency is rooted in the exclusiveness and eurocentrism of codes of conduct and elaborates on why corporations tend to prefer influencing certain labour conditions over others. It concludes by briefly discussing multi-stakeholder organisations as a possible solution to these predicaments, and points the way to further research on the topic.     

Assessing Americans' Opinions About the News Media's Fairness in 1996 and 1998

This article reports an analysis of Americans' opinions about the news media's fairness in covering public affairs. The data come from the 1996 and 1998 National Election Studies, which contained variables tapping exposure to and opinions about the news media, as well as key political dispositions?partisanship, ideology, and opinion about presidential and congressional job performance?and a plethora of demographic variables. The data show that people who adhere to traditional moral codes and are misanthropic tend not to trust the news media to cover politics fairly. In a presidential election year, opinion about the president's job performance affects perceptions of the press's fairness. In an off-year election, however, opinion about the president's job performance is replaced by opinion about how the Congress has been doing its job. In addition, perception of how the media covered the Lewinsky scandal also influenced opinion about the press's fairness in general.     

Simulation for Theory Testing and Experimentation: An Example Using Routine Activity Theory and Street Robbery

Achieving a better understanding of the crime event in its spatio-temporal context is an important research area in criminology with major implications for improving policy and developing effective crime prevention strategies. However, significant barriers related to data and methods exist for conducting this type of research. The research requires micro-level data about individual behavior that is difficult to obtain and methods capable of modeling the dynamic, spatio-temporal interaction of offenders, victims, and potential guardians at the micro level. This paper presents simulation modeling as a method for addressing these challenges. Specifically, agent-based modeling, when integrated with geographic information systems, offers the ability to model individual behavior within a real environment. The method is demonstrated by operationalizing and testing routine activity theory as it applies to the crime of street robbery. Model results indicate strong support for the basic premise of routine activity theory; as time spent away from home increases, crime will increase. The strength of the method is in providing a research platform for translating theory into models that can be discussed, shared, tested and enhanced with the goal of building scientific knowledge.