Counting the Cost: A Critical Evaluation of the Australian National Broadband Network Roll-Out under the Rudd/Gillard Governments

A nascent literature has examined recent controversial policy initiatives by the Australian Government using insights from the literature on public policy evaluation. Scholars have considered inter alia the Mineral Resources Rent Tax, the Home Insulation Program, the Green Loans Program, the Building the Education Revolution and the macroeconomic stimulus package after the global financial crisis. The present paper adds to this literature by considering the National Broadband Network (NBN). The costs of implementing the NBN are examined and the paper attempts to draw some broader public policy ‘lessons‘ to inform future public policy making both in Australia and elsewhere.     

Horsing around: Using equine facilitated learning to support the development of social-emotional competence of students at risk of school failure

The social-emotional issues some students experience can place them at risk of school failure. Traditional methods of support can be ineffective or not sustainable and new alternative approaches need to be attempted to support social-emotional competency, school engagement, and success for students at risk. This article discusses preliminary outcomes of an equine facilitated learning (EFL) program specifically designed to focus on using horses to improve the resilience and social-emotional competency in students perceived as “at risk” of school failure. This qualitative exploratory study used interviews and observations over a six month period to listen to the voices of the students themselves about their experiences of EFL. Initial findings from the pilot study suggest that EFL programs can be a novel and motivating way to promote resilience training and social-emotional development of students at risk of failure and, in turn, improve their level of engagement and connection with school environments.     

语言的游戏——读《后现代公共行政——话语指向》

查尔斯.J.福克斯和休.T.米勒合著的《后现代公共行政——话语指向》通过后现代主义的审视目光,对官僚制的修正中所出现的宪政主义与公民自决进行了批判：理性解释了它们为什麽不能解决公共行政的环式民主（间接民主或程序民主）失灵问题的原因,提出一种完全崭新的话语理论,试图解决公共行政合法化危机的问题。为公共行政的民主化管理提供了一种可以通达解释的新途径。     

政府在我国城市公共安全中的角色分析——来自治理理论的启示

公共安全本身的控制难度较大,加之城市特性的扩大作用,使得城市公共安全很难受到政府单方的、完全的、全方位的管理。也就是说,对政府而言,城市公共安全的可管理性是有限的。治理理论对我国城市公共安全管理的启示在于政府的责任并非是无限的,但它需明确自身的应有角色并有效履行相应责任,促成一个能够有效维系城市公共安全的治理网络并在其中发挥领袖角色,即先行者、指导者、沟通者和激励者。     

大黄泄浊颗粒保留灌肠对非透析慢性肾脏病肾性骨病湿热证患者骨密度及血清骨形成蛋白-7的影响

目的观察非透析慢性肾脏病(chronic kidney diseases,CKD)肾性骨病湿热证患者腰椎骨密度(bone mineral density,BMD)和血清骨形成蛋白-7(bone morphogenetic protein-7,BMP-7)水平及大黄泄浊颗粒保留灌肠的干预作用。方法将64例非透析CKD 3~5期湿热证患者随机分为治疗组和对照组各32例(结果每组失访2例),并设正常组20例。两组均给予基础治疗,治疗组加用大黄泄浊颗粒保留灌肠,每日1次,疗程均为8周。治疗前后分别观察两组血尿素氮(blood urea nitrogen,BUN),血清肌酐(serum creatinine,SCr)、钙(calcium,Ca)、磷(phosphorus,P)、碱性磷酸酶(alkaline phosphatase,ALP)、甲状旁腺激素(parathyroid hormone,iPTH)、BMP-7水平及第2—4腰椎BMD。结果治疗组临床疗效显著优于对照组(P0.05)。治疗4周末和8周末,两组中医证候积分均较前一时点显著降低(P0.05),且治疗组积分均显著低于对照组(P0.05)。治疗组在降低BUN、SCr和血清P、iPTH、ALP方面,以及在升高血清Ca和肾小球滤过率估算值方面均显著优于对照组(P0.05)。与正常组比较,CKD病例组BMD和BMP-7均显著降低(P0.05);两组治疗后BMD和BMP-7均显著升高(P0.05),而治疗组BMD和BMP-7升高值均显著大于对照组(P0.05)。结论非透析CKD肾性骨病湿热证患者BMD和BMP-7水平均显著低于健康人群;大黄泄浊颗粒保留灌肠可防治非透析CKD肾性骨病,其机制可能与改善肾功能及升高血清BMP-7含量有关。     

84例不同中医证型慢性乙型肝炎患者肝穿刺活检回顾性研究

目的探讨慢性乙型肝炎(chronic hepatitis B,CHB)病理分级与中医证型的关系。方法对84例经彩超引导下行肝穿刺活检的CHB患者的中医证型、肝脏病理分级、临床分级、肝功能指标进行回顾性研究。结果 84例CHB患者中,湿热蕴结证21例,肝郁气滞证34例,肝肾阴虚证7例,瘀血阻络证13例,脾肾阳虚证9例。肝脏炎症活动度与纤维化分期呈明显正相关(r=0.662,P=0.000);临床分级与病理分级呈显著正相关(r=0.556,P=0.000);不同证型CHB患者的病理分级比较,差异无统计学意义(P0.05);不同证型CHB患者血清谷丙转氨酶、谷草转氨酶、直接胆红素水平比较,差异均无统计学意义(P0.05),不同证型患者血清总胆红素水平比较,差异具有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论肝郁气滞证和湿热蕴结证是CHB患者的主要证型,病理分级和肝功能检查尚不能用于CHB的辨证分型。     

非政府组织志愿失灵的产权分析

我们在充分肯定非政府组织积极作用的时候,却未能辩证地认识到非政府组织的志愿失灵问题。从新制度经济学的产权视角来分析非政府组织的产权关系,并查找出非政府组织志愿失灵问题的根本动因。     

Governance,Proceduralisation and Justice: Some Challenges to the Legal Paradigm

In 1989, Rudolf Wiethöltner alleged that we are witnessing a ‘failure of law’ in terms of its obligation to achieve ‘just law’. This paradox at the very heart of law – in essence, the impossibility of the realisation of legal justice twinned with the law's inability to cease trying to attain this goal – has been accommodated to a degree by the utilisation of a proceduralist paradigm that relies upon the contingency of governance, but this is now coming under renewed scrutiny. This article will put forward three arguments in this respect. The first section will argue that the turn to governance and the resultant procedural paradigm are both consequences of the ‘failure of law'; the second will point to the inherent weaknesses of the procedural paradigm that can be said to stem from this very failure; while the third will discuss some of the challenges issued to those still reliant upon the legal paradigm.     

DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES IN THE IMPACT OF CHILD MALTREATMENT ON LATER DELINQUENCY AND DRUG USE*

Developmental psychopathology emphasizes the impact that early childhood maltreatment has on adolescent and early adult development. The life‐course perspective, however, emphasizes more proximal events—adolescent maltreatment, for example—as developmentally disruptive. Prior research suggests that childhood maltreatment is a risk factor for adolescent delinquency and drug use. However, the results appear to depend on a loose definition of childhood. This study utilizes a four‐category maltreatment classification—never, childhood‐only, adolescence‐only, and persistent—to re‐examine the maltreatment‐delinquency relationship. Using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, we find no relationship between childhood‐only maltreatment and adolescent delinquency or drug use; yet, we do find a consistent impact of adolescence‐only and persistent maltreatment on these outcomes.     

法律的维度--从空间上解读法律失败

现代国家法追求统一性和确定性 ,它存在于非特定的地点和时间空间中。植根于特定地理和时间的地方性规范和地方正义会因地点和时间的不同而不同 ,所以现实社会中会存在现代国家法与地方性规范及地方正义的内部逻辑上的矛盾。它们之间的矛盾是无法消除的 ,只能被减小。我们可以通过建立在社会科学基础上的立法来从空间的角度考虑制定法律以减小矛盾 ,也可以 (为了发展目前没有案例法的民法系统 )通过对已出版的法院案例的法学研究形成的教义来发展案例法以减小矛盾