The political phenotype of the disgust sensitive: Correlates of a new abbreviated measure of disgust sensitivity

The fields of political psychology and election studies often live separate lives. One reason has been the difficulty of including long psychological question batteries in the high-quality, representative samples that are the hallmark of election studies. In this study, we examine a novel one-item measure of psychological differences in sensitivity to one particular emotion: disgust. We demonstrate that disgust sensitivity serves as a foundational political difference that colors a very large range of social and political attitudes and behaviors: including ideology, political engagement, reactions towards outgroups, support for government intervention, behavior during a pandemic, and vote choice.     

对社会主义意识形态建设的思考

社会主义意识形态在社会主义现代化建设中具有举足轻重的作用,社会主义意识形态建设问题直接关系着社会主义经济建设乃至社会主义现代化建设。然而,随着生产力的巨大变革,时代和社会发生了深刻的变化、社会主义意识形态领域的斗争依旧长期而艰巨,使社会主义意识形态建设面临着巨大的压力和挑战。为了维护社会主义意识形态的统治地位,发挥其在社会主义现代化建设中的能动作用,我们需要做出多方面努力,搞好社会主义意识形态建设。     

以社会主义核心价值体系为统领培育人民警察核心价值观

培育人民警察核心价值观,应以社会主义核心价值体系为统领,以当代革命军人核心价值观为样板,以符合公安机关性质和宗旨的核心价值理念为内容,使提炼形成的人民警察核心价值观既体现社会主义核心价值体系的本质要求,又体现公安机关的性质和宗旨,成为推动公安工作和队伍建设的正确价值导向和强大精神动力。     

论中国化马克思主义经济学的建设性质

马克思主义经济学的科学性蕴涵在其内容的丰富性之中.马克思主义经济学有着多方面的理论观点,这些观点有着相对独立的价值.但这些观点并不仅仅是一棵棵孤立的"大树",而是由多种"树木"构成的"森林",其严密逻辑把这一个个观点缀连成不可分割的整体.正是在马克思主义经济学的基础上,中国化马克思主义经济学才除了革命性质以外,还具有了重要的建设性质,成为集革命与建设于一体的建设的经济学.指导中国改革开放的主流经济学,是主张发展社会主义的中国化马克思主义建设经济学,而不是主张葬送社会主义的西方非马克思主义激进经济学.     

Child malnutrition and mortality in China and Vietnam in a comparative perspective

Under the traditional socialist central planning system, economic growth in China and Vietnam was unstable and not very satisfactory. Yet, both countries achieved a remarkable progress in the area of human development. Later, under the market socialist model, China and Vietnam achieved very high rates of GDP growth, and malnutrition declined significantly. Yet, income distribution and the provision of key public services deteriorated in both countries. Progress in reducing child mortality in China was relatively slow, before improving in the early 2000s. Although Vietnam is much poorer than China, and has been growing less fast, its record in this area was markedly better. We show that this apparent paradox is due mainly to the fact that the negative side-effects of market-oriented reforms have reached a more advanced and alarming stage in China than in Vietnam. Our results also suggest that an additional factor is constituted by a relatively better status of women in Vietnam with respect to China. However, we also warn that signs are emerging in Vietnam too, indicating that it is entering a stage of development where the social problems now evident in China are starting to manifest themselves on a large and worrying scale. Our policy conclusions advocate in favour of re-establishing (in a new form, compatible with the maintenance of the economic dynamism of the market socialist system) some positive features of the pre-reform socialist model, among which universal public provision of basic public services is paramount.

引导宗教与社会主义社会相适应 促进和谐社会建设

要充分借鉴历史经验和做法,积极引导宗教与社会主义社会相适应。宗教工作是一项政策性、政治性很强的工作,要全面贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针,努力促进社会和谐。人民政协必须利用在宗教工作方面的优势,引导宗教与社会主义社会相适应,充分发挥宗教在构建社会主义和谐社会中的作用。     

The Cold War and Third World revolution

Much of the Cold War took place in the Third World. The three works authored by Gregg A. Brazinsky, Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War; Jeffry James Byrne, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order; and Jeremy Friedman, Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, are reviewed here and they provide historical details. A consistent theme that emerges is the importance of ideological factors in driving the events are discussed. It is also clear that the Third World states were not passive objects of pressure from great powers but had agendas of their own. These books provide useful material for theorists of international relations and policy makers.     

“The laughing third man in a fight”: Stalin's use of the wedge strategy

Although much IR theory focuses on balancing, this paper examines a version of the wedge strategy, what Stalin allegedly called being “the laughing third man in a fight.” This is the practice of advancing one's goals by setting up other states to fight each other. The first case study is Soviet strategy in Europe from September 1939 until June 1941. The second is Soviet strategy in the Far East in 1941–45. What I am looking at here is a policy of deliberately encouraging the start of a war and/or aiding its prolongation in order to weaken both sides. The two case studies indicate that the Soviet Union used such a strategy at times in place of the usual forms of balancing, discussed in the international relations literature. Additionally, analysis of Moscow's conduct, statements by Soviet leaders, and the policies of a number of foreign communist parties indicate that, in addition to any security goals, Stalin's agenda included furthering the USSR's goal as a revolutionary state, even thought this had at times to be constrained by realpolitik.     

邓小平对社会主义新道路的艰辛开拓

中国特色社会主义新道路是从党的十一届三中全会以后开始的。当时中国面临重重障碍,既有党内和社会上出现的“左”和“右”的思潮,又有旧的传统观念。邓小平以大无畏的开拓精神,扫清了走上新道路的屏障,顺民心、合民意把中国引向一条崭新的道路。     

巴黎公社原则的当代启示

本文结合世界共产主义运动的历史与现实,回顾了巴黎公社的原则,阐发了巴黎公社原则在当代的意义。对无产阶级政党的建设提出了两点思考:一是要重视无产阶级政党的理论建设。二是要重视无产阶级政党内外监督制度的建立和完善。