项目工会联合会应成为农民工兄弟温暖的家

为落实市总工会提出的创新要求,我们把强化项目工会联合会列作工作致力重点,千方百计把有能力、有威信的农民工组织进联合会领导班子中来,把保护好农民工劳动收益当作项目工会联合会的根本任务,把为农民工提供切实的安康性保障列为项目工会联合会工作第一要务,把关心青年农民工发展需要列为项目工会联合会建设的关键环节,要求项目工会联合会把引导农民工实现心灵和谐当作自己自觉使命,从而提高了项目工会联合会的工作质量。     

The Impact of the USSR on Lithuania's Domestic Policy and Its International Orientation in the Third Decade of the Twentieth Century

This article investigates links between domestic and foreign policy, topics which are usually discussed rather than analyzed in any detail. The case of the USSR and Lithuania is taken as an historical example of the impact of the external factor on domestic policy, and an attempt is made to elucidate how the Soviets tried to influence and correct Lithuania's policy in the inter-war period by providing financial assistance to parties and their press. In this way they sought to set Lithuania against Poland and fuel the conflict between them, so that they would not become reconciled, would not create the so-called Baltic Union with Latvia, Estonia and Finland and would not orient themselves to the West. Using financial and other levers of secret policy, the Soviets contributed significantly to pushing the pro-Western Christian Democratic Party away from power in Lithuania so that the Nationalists, who sought to establish closer relations with the USSR, came to be established. The overseas financing of parties which remained unknown to the public distorted the political process of Lithuania and hindered the maturing of social awareness.     

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land in Lithuanian translation

Small states, argued Peter Katzenstein a quarter of a century ago, were different. Faced with the fluctuations of world markets, they adopt democratic corporatism and domestic compensation, thus ensuring political legitimacy and successful economic adjustment. The Baltic countries are an interesting case study for this framework, because in many ways they are “smaller” than the seven countries analyzed by Katzenstein. This article finds that, on a broader level, Katzenstein’s framework is very helpful in highlighting the key developments in the Baltic countries. On the other hand, the specific causal mechanism that can be drawn from this framework running from smallness, to democratic corporatism, to political legitimacy, as well as domestic compensation, has not developed in the Baltics.     

Does the Criminal Justice System Treat Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Offenders Leniently?

We examine whether men who physically assault their female partners or who commit sexual assault receive more lenient treatment than offenders who commit other types of assaults. Analyses of the National Violence Against Women Survey do not support these hypotheses. Rather, they suggest that women who assault their male partners are particularly likely to avoid arrest. In addition, both men and women who assault partners are more likely to avoid conviction than other offenders. Evidence suggests that there has been an increase over time in rates of arrest and conviction for partner violence.     

广州地区农民工政治信任状况的实证研究

我国农民工的数量极其庞大,广州地区是我国农民工重要的集散地。广州地区农民工的政治信任呈现出三大特点：政治信任的水平与信任客体的层级正相关、政治信任的认知基础比较模糊和新生代农民工的政治信任度较低。这一状况容易导致广州地区农民工群体性事件的发生,为此,我们需要采取以下措施来提升其政治信任度：提高农民工的工资水平,拓宽农民工的政治参与渠道,加强对农民工信任网络的整合,发挥电子媒介的政治传播功能。     

转型期我国工人利益表达方式及特点分析

随着市场经济的深入发展,中国社会结构和利益的分化不断加深。政府代表全体公众利益的前提是其利益能够充分表达,不同群体的利益能够被充分地反映。但现阶段工人利益表达存在着被动性、非组织化、非制度化和分散化等问题,这不仅导致了劳资关系失衡,而且加剧了社会矛盾和冲突。在当前利益格局调整的关键时期,强化工会利益表达功能是通过社会利益均衡机制维护工人群体利益的一种重要方式。     

MIS‐MATCHED: TAKING A STATE APPROACH TO ENFORCING THE GROWING INTERNATIONAL MATCHMAKING INDUSTRY

Each year, hundreds of U.S. men and foreign women find their future spouses through international matchmaking agencies. Foreign women are attracted to the opportunity for a life in America and men are offered money‐back guarantees to find the perfect wife. An alarming number of these unions however, have resulted in the abuse, exploitation and even death of foreign women at the hands of their U.S. citizen husbands. While the federal International Marriage Broker Regulation Act requires disclosure of a male client's criminal background history prior to communicating with a potential foreign bride, the Act does not impose any requirements for disclosure of information about the international marriage brokers themselves. Thus the peddlers behind the rapidly growing industry are largely unaccounted for, with no one really knowing who they are or where they are operating. This Note proposes that states fill the enforcement gap by adopting a statute requiring international marriage brokers to register and become certified to do business with state residents. This legislation will result in collecting much needed data on international marriage brokers, create more transparency in the international matchmaking industry and prevent potential violence and abuse of foreign women.     

对高校科技工作者党建工作问题的分析与思考——以北京部分高校为例

本文依据实证数据分析当前高校科技工作者党建问题。调查发现高校科技工作者党建工作存在动力短缺化、动机功利化、思想非政治化、机制固态化、队伍单薄化、方式滞后化等问题,这些问题源于高校科技工作者对社会转型认知不足、市场经济功利主义的施虐、西方文化价值观念的渗透、对党政治认同感的降低、管制型党建理念的制约、队伍建设重视不足、忽视网络技术党建功能等因素的相互交织。应从提高科技工作者的社会认知能力、开展西方现实国情教育、注重社会主义核心价值体系的引领、巩固党在高校科技工作者的政治威信、重视高校党建队伍全面发展、建构服务型高校党建工作理念、推行电子党务建设工程等方面下功夫,促进高校科技工作者党建工作有序发展。     

政府承担农民工法律援助责任的法理基础和法律依据探析

农民工法律援助是政府的责任。从法理基础上说,政府承担农民工法律援助责任是人民主权原则的要求,是社会契约的要求,是实现法律面前人人实质平等的基本前提,是"看得见的正义"的内在要求。从法律依据上说,我国宪法、法律法规等从不同方面规定和体现了对农民工进行法律援助是政府的责任。     

Conflicting Consensus

Abstract

Limited research exists on the extent to which the public supports the criminalization of domestic violence, and whether people believe police pro-arrest policies will deter future offending. Based on conflict theory, it is hypothesized that there will be differences in support for criminalization between powerful (i.e., middle to upper class Caucasian men) and less powerful demographic groups (i.e., women, minorities, and the economically and educationally disadvantaged). Data were collected from a randomized telephone survey of Alabama residents and analyzed using ordered regression models. Results indicate that a majority of respondents agreed with a pro-arrest policy for domestic violence; however, age, education, income, and gender subgroup differences offer support for the conflict model. An additional finding that domestic violence victimization plays a significant role in the formulation of respondents' attitudes toward these policies needs to be more closely investigated.