Formal and informal governance networks: Diabetes care in Australia and India

The concept of networks has gained interest in public administration and management. They address concerns such as the coordination of multiple actors within the policy process. Networks take both formal and informal forms. As the integration of formal and informal networks in public service delivery is gaining traction, this paper uses the example of diabetes care in Australia and India to provide an analytical framework to examine one of the ways such integration of networks take place. Diabetes, a chronic long‐term disease, poses to be a global problem with a high rate of diagnosis with implications for public health expenditure. A multi‐disciplinary team, which comprises both formal and informal categories, is required to manage diabetes. This paper highlights the integration of networks in diabetes care in different institutional and cultural settings. For such form of integration of networks to work, collaboration among the various actors is important. Lessons learnt from diabetes care will be relevant for other long‐term chronic conditions to help reduce the human resource and financial burden. The analytical framework developed based on the example of diabetes care will provide useful lessons for examining the mechanics and dynamics of the integration between formal and informal networks in the field of public administration and management.     

利益诱惑情境与腐败事件的生成及控制——基于18个典型案例的分析

现实发生的各类腐败行为和腐败案件均有公职人员与特定当事人在特定时空进行越界交换的共同特点,用利益诱惑情境来解释越界交换现象具有独特的价值。利益诱惑情境是内蕴于公务情境中的行为活动场景,以其即时性、选择性和感染性形成集成机制,进而使公职人员在场定义发生认知错位、规则变异和取向偏差,在标准、内容和程序上突破腐败与不腐败的临界点,生成腐败事件。控制临界点不被突破也就控制了腐败事件的发生,需要在利益诱惑情境的时间和空间环节加强监督,建立健全制度,重视对行贿人的查处,培育理想信念与信守从政道德,真正建立固守廉洁阵地的防线。     

The Bordered World of Cross-border Cooperation: The Determinants of Local Government Contact Networks within Euroregions

The article discusses the determinants of local government contact networks within cross-border cooperation organizations (Euroregions). Relying on social capital theory, a combination of social network and qualitative analytical tools are applied on data from two Scandinavian and two East Central European cases. The analysis reveals that, even in favourable circumstances, contact networks are thin and Euroregions fail to develop into truly integrated political spaces. The analysis also shows that contact patterns on one side of the border, determined primarily by inter-municipal cooperation, will matter for how contact networks are formed across the border. The findings are important, as membership in a Euroregion is expected to foster cross-border political relationships that could have possible spillover effects in terms of encouraging policy cooperation outside the framework of the Euroregion, which in turn would enhance the likelihood of well-functioning cross-border governance spaces.     

中日韩贸易一体化趋势研究:自组织理论的视角

区域经济贸易一体化过程既有来自市场的驱动力,也有来自政府的驱动力。其中前者表现为经济贸易体系偏离均衡状态、从无序向有序演进的自组织过程。中日韩三国近年来经贸合作日益频繁,三国之间的贸易增长远快于三国对世界的贸易增长,相互出口结构进一步与区域内的需求结构相契合,产业分工水平进一步深化,表现出明显的区域贸易一体化趋势。这一过程客观上要求突破原有的国家边界的束缚,在区域内实施更加开放的经济贸易政策,促进区域竞争力的提高和经济的持续增长。     

尊重与培训,新生代农民工市民化的良好途径——来自青岛港的调查

加快形成城乡经济社会发展一体化新格局,是缩小城乡差别、实现城乡共同繁荣的根本途径。加强对新生代农民工的培训,提高其综合素质,不仅是加快新生代农民工市民化、使其身心融入城市的根本措施,也是促进城乡一体化发展的关键。青岛港采取尊重的态度与相应的培训方法,将有稳定劳动关系的新生代农民工逐步转化为现代产业工人,走出了一条让新生代农民工具备社会需要素质的独特之路。     

我国基本公共服务均等化问题研究

20世纪90年代中后期以来,随着我国经济的快速发展,城乡经济社会发展却严重失衡,居民收入差距逐渐扩大,社会矛盾日益突出.同时,广大社会成员对社会公平、正义的要求也比以往任何时期都更为迫切和强烈.要解决这些问题,实现基本公共服务均等化是一个很好的切入点.换言之,逐步实现基本公共服务均等化已经成为我国当前改革和发展的重要内容和重要目标,具有重大意义.但是,在我国这样一个发展中的大国,实现基本公共服务均等化不可能一蹴而就,应实施"同步推进,分步实现"的发展战略.     

加强和改进流动党员管理的难点及对策

加强流动党员管理既是一个热点问题,又是新形势下党建工作不容回避的难点问题。其难点主要表现为个体流动、行踪无常,党组织组建率低、稳定性差,管理机制滞后、管理渠道不畅,党务工作者队伍建设和管理弱化。要从根本上解决这些问题,必须实现思想、方法和网络上的统筹,推进城乡一体化党员动态管理。与此同时,还要建立健全流动党员教育管理信息网络建设机制,构建城乡一体化党员动态管理的保障机制,健全城乡党的基层组织互帮互助机制,培养建立稳定的党务工作者队伍。     

人像识别技术的公安行业信息整合系统

人像识别系统以人脸信息为基础,网上比对进行身份确认,具有直观、高效、准确、方便等特点,将填补目前公安管理工作中的盲点,实现对常住人口、暂住人口、重点人口、在押人员、进出境人员等信息网络化、实时化管理,为公安系统工作提供高科技手段。     

中央与民族自治地方多元一体关系论略

中央与民族自治地方的关系是指中央政府与民族区域自治地方政府之间的政治经济关系。这种模式自建立开始就体现出中央与民族自治地方之间法定利益格局和调试互动关系,进而塑造了中央与民族自治地方的一体多元关系格局。就其实质而言,这种关系既具有一体性,也具有多元性。     

International migration and liberal democracies: the challenge of integration

Migration theories that build on economic incentives and social network effects will generally predict much more international migration than we observe. We have to 'bring the state back in' to explain why so few potential migrations lead to actual flows, and why these flows are highly selective. Immigration policies have been strongly shaped by particular nation-building projects but the increasing diversity of origins in contemporary migrations has also challenged and transformed perceptions of national identity at the receiving end. Bauböck discusses the need for studying integration regimes from a comparative and normative perspective. He examines characteristic features of four regimes - the United States, Canada, Israel and the European Union - and defends a conception of integration that embraces the ambiguities of the term: it should be understood as referring to the inclusion of newcomers as well as to the internal cohesion of the societies and political communities that are transformed by immigration. These two meanings are combined in a third one of integration as federation: the process of forming larger political unions from distinct societies. Particularly in the context of the European Union integration policies for immigrants should live up to the same democratic principles that are invoked for the political integration of the EU. This suggests a European agenda for harmonizing the legal status of third country residents and their access to citizenship. Bringing the state back in makes us also aware that the transnational communities of migrants are no substitute for access, status and rights within territorially bounded polities. Instead of portraying migrants as harbingers of the end of the nation-state, we should rather think how to transform nation-states so that increasingly mobile populations can still share in political authority, a bounded territory and a common historical horizon. This perspective of integration is 'transnational' rather than 'postnational'. A transnational perspective does not envisage the dissolution of nation-states, but emphasizes instead that societies and cultures increasingly overlap both in space and time.