Non-Zero-Sum Leadership Games: Is Facilitative Leadership a Win-Win?

According to the concept of facilitative leadership, leaders can strengthen their own leadership by strengthening the other players in the game. However, quantitative empirical evidence that such facilitative leadership processes can lead to win-win situations has been lacking. This article develops a way to detect such non-zero-sum leadership games building on an index constructed to measure political leadership in surveys. The technique is applied to a case study focusing on Regional Mayors in Denmark, and the empirical findings clearly demonstrate that, in this case, the leadership game indeed resembles a non-zero-sum pattern.     

教育地方立法中法律责任设定研究

为了保障依法治教,我国先后颁布了《中华人民共和国教师法》、《中华人民共和国教育法》等教育法律法规,我国教育法律体系初步形成。但是,由于各地教育发展水平不同,具体教育状况存在差异,而国家层面的教育立法侧重原则性的规定,因此,加强教育地方立法,可以有效实现依法治教,促进教育事业发展。目前在我国教育地方立法中,法律责任的设定存在问题多多,探讨教育地方立法责任设置具有重要的现实意义。     

Accounting for Variation in Distrust of Local Police

This paper tests a variety of explanations for variation in distrust of local police in the US. As with other attitudes toward the police, there is a substantial race gap in distrust of the police. Our analysis is based upon citizen survey data from 33 cities and data on policing characteristics and the city context for those same cities. It reveals that individual‐level factors representative of a psychological model are of substantial importance in accounting for variation in distrust of the police. City‐level attributes tapping differences in police performance are also important predictors of citizen distrust of the police, even once individual‐level attributes are controlled; and there are important racial differences in the impact of these police performance variables as well, resulting in a largely full accounting of the initial race gap.     

Local politics and police strength

Numerous studies have explored variation in police employment across cities, usually focusing on public choice, conflict, or organizational explanations. Yet, few consider whether the local political context affects police employment. Recent research suggests that local politics affects criminal justice outcomes. Using insights from urban politics research, I develop testable hypotheses about the effects of local political arrangements on municipal police strength. WLS regression results suggest the value of considering local political context in models of police strength. Specifically, in a sample of 945 cities with 25,000 or more residents in 1990, net of other variables, cities with unreformed political systems (mayor‐council forms of government, district‐based city councils and partisan elections) had more police employees per 1,000 residents, and this effect varied by region. Additionally, the effect of minority populations and crime rates on police strength varied across municipal political contexts. Implications for theories of police strength are discussed.     

西部地区地方高校教育质量提升的诉求与对策--基于对西部地区部分地方高校的考察

通过对西部地区部分地方高等院校的考察，发现西部地区高等教育质量总体有了明显提升，但重规模轻质量、重硬件建设轻内涵建设的现象依然存在。西部地区地方高校要进一步更新观念，立足地方经济社会发展的需要，有效整合教育资源，从学科专业建设、人才培养模式改革、师资队伍建设、产学研结合等方面着手，走有自我特色的内涵发展之路。     

竞合:我国地方政府间竞争的理想状态

我国地方政府之间以"地方保护"为主要特色的竞争,破坏了规范竞争的良好秩序,影响了我国经济的良性发展。要使这种竞争转向良性,一种有效的措施就是地方政府间的竞合。分工理论为地方政府间的竞合提供了理论基础。而竞合的具体实现则需要制度、组织以及其他配套措施的保证。     

地方政府债务问题的法律对策

地方政府债务问题主要是由财税制度的不完善、相关法律和制度的缺失、政府债务信息公开制度和监督机制的不健全、不合理的政绩考核制度以及借款还款制度的缺乏造成的。建立合理、完善的地方政府举债的法律制度使得地方政府举债合法化、制度化。     

“省直管县”体制改革持续推进研究——基于地方治理的分析框架

基于地方治理视角分析＂省直管县＂体制改革,建立不同层级政府之间合理的职责、权能分工体系,建立政府、市场、社会三者之间界限明确、多元合作的治理框架,建立不同区域政府之间的政策协调与沟通合作机制,对于改革的持续推进以及促进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化具有重要意义。     

Demystifying Decentralization and Its Setback: Evidence From Thailand’s Decentralization Reform

This analysis explores the options for a conceptual framework to explicate the dynamics of decentralization reform in Thailand. The first section examines typological frameworks used in various social scientific fields to classify decentralization. Second, as a case in point, we analyze the decentralization reform process in Thailand, which officially began in the late 1990s. Then, the analysis examines theoretical and empirical works that attempt to explain the dynamics of decentralization in Thailand. We suggest historical institutionalism, along with the concepts of path dependence and critical junctures, as theoretical approaches to understand decentralization problems with an eye to political actors’ strategic interests, as well as political and institutional contexts that restrain their choices.     

On the “Economic Dilemma” within the Performing Arts

This article contributes to our understanding public art at the local level by providing analysis of local government public art programs. A survey was conducted with cities and towns in Arizona that have public art programs. The article begins by defining public art and explaining how government funding for public art began in the United States. Next, it highlights the benefits of public art. Public art program funding sources, budgets, maintenance, personnel, and promotion techniques are discussed for the cities/towns surveyed. Last, recommendations are provided for cities/towns seeking to create or expand their public art programs.