From newspapers to social media? Changing dynamics in Swiss direct democratic campaigns

Switzerland is a laggard in terms of digital campaigning. Direct democratic votes, more particularly, are centered around issues and little personalized. Combined with the specificities of voters’ information behaviour in direct democratic campaigns, these features are likely to disincentivize political actors from extensively campaigning online. Instead, we expect political actors to continue relying on traditional media. These propositions are tested on a large data base of social media posts and newspaper advertisements published before direct democratic votes held in Switzerland from 1981 to 2020 and 2010 to 2020, respectively. Counterintuitively, this research note finds a strong discontinuity in campaign communication practices. Over the past decades, and between 2010 and 2020 in particular, newspaper ads have become less central to direct democratic campaign communication. At the same time, political actors are increasingly shifting their communication to the digital sphere.     

东盟自由贸易区与东盟合作机制--东盟合作机制变迁的社会学考察

东盟自由贸易区建设使东盟合作机制具有了越来越多的正式色彩.这种变化并不是事先刻意而为的,而是为解决协议不执行问题、通过讨价还价逐渐演化而成的.东盟国家之所以没有一味地固守其传统的合作特性,而是有所变化,主要是因为作为一种经济合作安排,东盟自由贸易区不仅关系到东盟国家的经济增长和政治安全,也关系到东盟作为整体在国际上的信誉.     

纳西族文化变迁中的非均衡性

文化变迁是一场纷繁复杂、生动万千的过程 ,不是某种文化在同一时间全部发生变迁。从纵向看 ,文化变迁的速度越来越快 ;从横向上看 ,文化变迁始于文化中某个成分的变化。一个民族与周围民族的交往 ,往往会打破其文化运作的均衡状态 ,又终因文化的整体性特征而形成新的平衡。由于民族间及国家间交往的频繁 ,文化变迁中的自变量越来越难以预测     

中国"舞"台原创与市场的突破点

中国舞蹈舞台演出的现代发展与突破需有三个条件 :社会环境、原创性作品和市场经营。当前 ,三个条件中仅具备社会大环境 ,而就更重要的两个条件来说 ,原创还缺乏现代作品的个性思维色彩与深度 ;市场运作缺少小而灵活的演出组合 ,以及稍小的演出场所。因而中国“舞”台的真正繁荣 ,还有待编导和舞者们、管理者和艺术经纪人的奋力突破。     

Putting Local Associations Into their Context. Preliminary Results from a Swiss Study of Local Associations

The paper presents results from the Swiss case of the European comparative project CID (Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy). This project examines the relationship between political institutional assets and civic and political engagement in several Western and Eastern European countries. The paper seeks to investigate how civic engagement can be generated and shaped by a given institutional and political context as well as by a peculiar community size. The central hypothesis is that the context affects the character of local participation. To verify this, the papers examines two different Swiss cantons: the German speaking Canton of Bern and the French speaking Canton of Vaud. Moreover, for each canton, four local communities of different size have been selected. This research design discusses how participation is fostered by a more open political opportunity structure (the German canton), and how this combines with the size of the community.     

市场经济概念刍议--兼谈社会主义市场经济理论的构建基础

目前的理论教材将市场经济定义为仅是资源配置方式或经济体制,此定义在理论和教学中尚有一些问题存在.在西方经济学中市场经济既是资源配置方式,也是经济制度和价值观.市场经济概念是社会主义市场经济理论的构建基础,因此有必要深入探讨.     

非典危机与政府治道变革

非典危机是对我国政府的施政理念、管理体制、管理手段和管理方式等方面的一次全面挑战,既暴露了以往存在的一系列问题,也促成了政府在治道方面的一系列变化。我国政府必须通过施政理念、利益关系、管理模式等的全面变革,实现政府再造,建设一个更适应现代化发展要求的服务型的政府,一个专业化的高效率的高度负责的现代政府。     

适应军事变革要求推进军队政治工作的创新发展

新军事变革的发展给我军政治工作带来的挑战,要求我军政治工作从转变观念入手,与时俱进,改革创新,使我军政治工作不断适应新形势的需要,为赢得未来战争的胜利提供服务保证.     

周期可变的交通灯自动管理

对道路交通拥挤,秩序混乱,特别是交叉路口经常出现拥堵的情况,通过运用先进的计算机控制技术,可以从很大程度上解决这一突出问题,大大提高市区车辆通行能力,从而提高全社会的经济效益和社会效益。