Public confidence in the judiciary: the interaction between political awareness and level of democracy

Apart from the studies that focus on public attitudes toward higher courts in advanced democracies, we know little about the factors that can explain public confidence in the judiciary in a comparative setting. In this regard, the goal of this study is to explain whether, and to what extent, the country's level of democracy moderates the impact of political awareness on public confidence in the judiciary. This study uses hierarchical linear models to analyse the interaction between individual and country level factors by using the World Values Survey (2005–2009) data for 49 countries and various other data sources. Our empirical results show that in advanced democracies political awareness variables like education and political participation have a positive impact on public confidence in the judiciary, whereas in countries with weak levels of democracy higher political awareness leads to increased cynicism about the judiciary. These results suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach to explain confidence in the judiciary is not possible when we are dealing with a wide range of societies that vary in terms of many characteristics, both institutional and cultural.     

走出慈善的尴尬——试析我国慈善事业发展的困境及出路

目前我国慈善事业虽然发展迅速,但是仍面临一系列困境,如政府角色认识偏差、公民慈善意识较弱、公众对慈善认识的偏差等意识困境;法律不健全、登记困难、税收政策不完善等法制困境;信息公开和内部治理不健全等机制困境。中国的慈善事业健康发展的出路是树立现代慈善意识、走法制化道路和完善机制。     

论金融工作人员购买假币、以假币换取货币罪的概念及构成特征

金融工作人员购买假币、以假币换取货币罪罪名中所称的"假币",包括伪造和变造的货币,其侵犯的客体为国家的货币流通管理制度和国家对金融机构工作人员的管理制度。购买假币不一定是用真货币购买。利用职务上的便利是以假币换取货币构成本罪的必要条件。"以多换少"与"以少换多"只能以本罪一罪论处。外资、中外合资金融机构的工作人员以及金融代办员同样可以成为本罪主体。主观上的明知包括确知和明知可能性两种情况。     

特质 意识 素质——从学报编辑角度进行的思考

随着知识化、信息化、网络化时代的到来,学术刊物的内容也在不断更新,特别是面对反映社会热点、焦点问题的学术论文,学报编辑必须时刻关注国家政策,把握时代脉搏,紧跟时代步伐,力争以新的理念、新的视角认识问题,分析问题,以期提升个人素质,提高学报质量。     

社会转型时期利益表达机制的构建

有社会便有纠纷,于是人民群众迫切需要防止和解决纠纷场所、机构、程序以及有关的规则。社会转型时期,出现了一些激进的、非制度的甚至带有暴力倾向的利益诉求方式,很大程度上影响了我国民主的发展和政治的稳定。需认真分析利益诉求的现状、诉求渠道存在的主要问题,构建新型利益表达机制。     

优化城市治安防范体系 创新警务管理模式——大连市社会管理创新的理论与实践研究

文章从非平衡和可拓分析的角度分析了在治安防范体系中推行信息效能特点以及警务转换桥机制,提出在社会管理创新的需求牵引下,要想使城市治安防范体系在改革与创新中获得时效,必须解决警务管理中的不相容问题。文中论述了危机意识、信息效能、学习精神和警务模式在其中的作用,提出了一些有待研究的课题。     

制度的十大功能:学理层面的诠释

制度具有思想、道德、文化、政策等所不能代替的特有属性和功能:转化与载体功能、抑恶与惩恶功能、护善与扬善功能、预防与教化功能、纠错与更新功能、管理与效率功能、疏通与减压功能、激励与创造功能、协调与整合功能、秩序与稳定功能。只有深刻认识这些功能,才能增强制度意识,加强制度建设和创新,为和谐社会的构建提供理论支撑和制度保证。     

地方政府有效履行职能的影响因素分析

本文研究主题是探寻影响地方政府有效履行职能的主要因素。本文遵循实证研究途径,具体运用调查研究和统计分析方法展开研究。研究结论认为,在六个影响地方政府有效履行职能的因素中,＂法制（不健全）＂属于强影响因素,影响力最大,＂执法手段（缺失）＂、＂公务员素质（不高）＂和＂财政支持（不到位）＂三个因素的影响力居中,而＂物质条件（差）＂和＂现代技术（意识不足）＂属于弱影响因素。并且,不同区域、不同府级、不同学历和不同职务对六个因素各自影响力的认知也有所差异。     

Daisaku Ikeda’s philosophy of peace,education proposals,and Soka education: convergences and divergences in peace education

In this article, the authors introduce and explicate Daisaku Ikeda’s contributions to peace education. Ikeda is a Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, school founder, and prolific author whose six decades of contributions to peace education have had a global impact in practice but have remained unexamined in the extant, particularly Anglophone, literature. Using excerpts and bilingual discourse analysis of the Ikeda corpus, the authors focus on five aspects to trace the past, present, and future of Ikeda’s contributions to peace education: first, they trace the biographical roots of Ikeda’s contributions to his early educational experiences and encounter with Josei Toda (1900–1958). Second, they outline the Nichiren Buddhist philosophy informing Ikeda’s approach to peace education. Third, they explicate in the context of peace and peace education Ikeda’s concept of value-creating, or Soka education (soka kyoiku) relative to value-creating pedagogy (soka kyoikugaku) theorized by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871–1944). In light of this relation, they also trace the origin of the Soka Gakkai International, of which Ikeda is founding president. Fifth, they clarify Ikeda’s educational proposals made explicitly under the label of ‘peace education,’ namely, cultural exchange, a United Nations for Education, and education for disarmament and human rights (including anti-bullying, sustainability, and global citizenship). The authors conclude that Ikeda’s perspectives, proposals, and practices of Soka education and ‘peace education’ can be viewed as a tripartite ontological model of a process of becoming, moving from inner transformation by means of dialogue to global citizenship.     

增强领导干部忧患意识的四个维度

党的十八大报告指出,面对人民的信任和重托,面对新的历史条件和考验,全党必须增强忧患意识,谦虚谨慎,戒骄戒躁,始终保持清醒头脑。作为党的领导干部更要有强烈的忧患意识,常怀忧党之心,恪尽兴党之责。