浅论公共部门效率改革的策略

公共部门的迅速膨胀意味着公共部门与私人部门之间关系的根本变革。公共部门改革效率的问题成为目前理论研究的焦点。政策科学的应用性取向导致它寻求改进公共管理的方式。本文研究了公共部门的组织效率的定义及其改革的制度障碍,并且对公共部门改革的政治改革策略、缩减策略、分权与评估策略以及角色转换进行了探讨。     

To balance or to bandwagon? Adjusting to China's rise during Australia's Rudd–Gillard era

This article examines Australian grand strategy in the context of China's rise during the period of Labor governments between 2007 and 2013. Australia's grand-strategic posture is treated as the dependent variable, plotted along a balancing-to-bandwagoning continuum. Australia remained within the hedging zone throughout, although there were discernible shifts in posture during the period. While momentum was building towards a more overt balancing posture during the Kevin Rudd era, the various balancing and bandwagoning ‘signals’ were more contradictory after Julia Gillard unseated Rudd 2010; in short, she stabilised Australia's grand-strategic posture, meaning it remains best characterized as ‘dominance denial’.     

Enhancing security incident response follow-up efforts with lightweight agile retrospectives

Security incidents detected by organizations are escalating in both scale and complexity. As a result, security incident response has become a critical mechanism for organizations in an effort to minimize the damage from security incidents. The final phase within many security incident response approaches is the feedback/follow-up phase. It is within this phase that an organization is expected to use information collected during an investigation in order to learn from an incident, improve its security incident response process and positively impact the wider security environment. However, recent research and security incident reports argue that organizations find it difficult to learn from incidents.A contributing factor to this learning deficiency is that industry focused security incident response approaches, typically, provide very little practical information about tools or techniques that can be used to extract lessons learned from an investigation. As a result, organizations focus on improving technical security controls and not examining or reassessing the effectiveness or efficiency of internal policies and procedures. An additional hindrance, to encouraging improvement assessments, is the absence of tools and/or techniques that organizations can implement to evaluate the impact of implemented enhancements in the wider organization. Hence, this research investigates the integration of lightweight agile retrospectives and meta-retrospectives, in a security incident response process, to enhance feedback and/or follow-up efforts. The research contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it presents an approach based on lightweight retrospectives as a means of enhancing security incident response follow-up efforts. Second, it presents an empirical evaluation of this lightweight approach in a Fortune 500 Financial organization's security incident response team.     

Enhancing Delivery and Assessment: A Case Study in Module Redesign for Improved Transition Into Higher Education

Understanding student transition into higher education is an important aspect of module design, linking content, delivery, and assessment with a student’s prior educational experience and knowledge bases. However, reflections on how modules designed choices are, generally, not widely disseminated. Here, we document the reflections of a junior lecturer responsible for redesigning a Level-4 Political Systems module and analyze the intentions of change via a transition pedagogy perspective, presenting a program renewal that establishes connected curriculum as an enabling infrastructure for students to actively engage with learning. First-year experience is considered as a major impacting factor of a student’s subsequent success on a program of higher education and the diversification of student cohorts requires teaching staff to consider a wider number of intersectional factors that may impact on a student’s opportunity to succeed in their studies. With a focus on simulations and active-learning, by providing examples of the thinking behind the resultant activities and assessment realignment we hope to provide an example of how a transition approach to a first-year module can be explored.     

Peace education research in the twenty-first century: three concepts facing crisis or opportunity?

This article focuses on the concepts of peace, education and research, and the ways in which they combine to form the field of peace education and peace education research. It discusses the ways in which each can be said to be facing a crisis of legitimation, representation and praxis, and the structural and cultural violence that inhibit efforts towards a more inclusive global conception of peace. It will review some ways in which it may be possible to rise to Gur-Ze’ev’s challenge to respond to post-structural critiques of the field. Drawing on participatory, auto ethnographic and arts-based research methodologies, it suggests ways of creating synergies between research and aspirations towards positive (rather than negative) peace.     

教学中的主体参与结构分析

现代教学手段运用的一个基本依据是看它是否有利于学生的主体参与。教的目的只有转换成为学的目的才能成为学生主体参与的目的。主体参与规范是教学社会性的重要体现。教师要精心设计使任何教学形式都服务于学生的主体参与。教的内容只是学的的内容的一个依据，而非全部。教学过程的实质是学生主体参与的过程。教学中的主体参与既是对教材伯掌握，又是一种生命的体验，同时还是发展性教学活动的具体体现。     

Negotiating in the European Council: A Model European Union Format for Individual Classes

This paper demonstrates the use of an in-class simulation to model negotiations in the European Council. Simulations are an increasingly popular way to teach the complex processes of policymaking and negotiations in the European Union (EU) where institutional procedures are difficult to understand and where intergovernmental and supranational issues often conflict. Advocates of active learning promote simulations to get students more involved and to reach an increasingly diverse student body. The simulation presented here has three separate sessions, each covering a different issue and lasting for a week (two class days) each. Modeling the European Council allows students to experience the intergovernmental side of policy decisions in the European Union while at the same time learning about the issues facing EU policymakers. It is a useful tool for teaching about the EU presidency and a worthwhile exercise for studying the national aspects of European integration. Student surveys indicate that students process the information they gain by role-playing better than information they receive in the traditional classroom. A simulation of the European Council gives students a base for understanding issues of European integration and can serve as a springboard for further study of EU institutions.     

信息化战争中的东方军事谋略--论<孙子兵法>的谋略思想在信息化战争中的价值

<孙子兵法>是中国古代军事谋略思想的集大成者.随着信息化战争成为主要的战争形态,军事谋略运用不断呈现出新的特点.这些新特点表明,信息化战争不仅没有否定孙子谋略思想的普遍价值,而且进一步凸现了其新的生机与活力.     

创建学习型工会组织提高工会干部素质

知识经济越来越多地渗透到企业的生产、经营和管理中,工会组织在新形势下参与企业决策,维护职工的合法权益,其工作中知识含量的要求越来越高,工会必须高度重视,切实抓紧创建学习型工会组织,提高工会干部素质.     

新建公安本科院校学科建设之策略——关于加强我院学科建设的几点认识

对于新建本科院校来说,学科建设的意义非常重大。学科是教师和科研人员活动的土壤,是他们施展才华的一个基础平台。学科建设既是提升新建本科院校人才培养层次,实现内涵升本的重要途径,也是促进和提高广大教师的研究能力和创新能力、提高新建本科院校综合实力、实现跨越式发展的重要途径。因此,学科建设在新建本科院校不是为时过早,而是迫在眉睫,是当前留住人才、吸引人才的重要方式之一。本文从学科建设的意义、学科与学科建设的内涵进行阐述,提出了新建本科院校学科建设的策略。