基层人大代表联系选民工作存在的问题和对策——以西部地区X市X区第十五届人大代表的调查为例

我国基层人大代表联系选民存在服务意识落后、联系形式单一、以集体视察为主等问题.因此,增强代表的责任意识、建立代表联系选民的公示制度、公开接待选民、发挥党员代表的模范作用等创新型联系渠道有待进一步制度化.     

近代中国宪政缩影——辛亥百年解读云南护国运动

1908年清末立宪至今,中国宪政已有百年历史。宪政从西方传来之时,正值中华民族生死存亡之际,反帝救亡成为当时的主旋律。宪政之于近代中国也因此被赋予了双重目标,即追求民主政治与追求民族独立的目标联系在一起,且后者优于前者。近代宪政不可避免地被当作功利性的手段,其自身的价值内涵却被忽略了。     

“Scandinavia’s best-kept secret.”† Tourism promotion,nation-branding,and identity construction in Estonia (with a free guided tour of Tallinn Airport)

This article surveys the official narrative on representation of Estonian identity and Estonianness through the tourism strategy implemented by Estonia from 2007 to 2015. Gathering material from brochures and documents targeting foreigners produced by the Estonian Institute and “Enterprise Estonia” (EAS) and analyzing the logic behind the interior design of Tallinn Airport, we engage with current debates on identity construction in post-Soviet spaces. In particular, we suggest that along with an established body of literature looking at the role of state actors in the construction of identity, studies should consider the role of nontraditional or non-state actors in identifying and promoting identity markers.     

Between a Scientist and a Government Employee: Analyzing the Occupational Identity of National Research Institute Researchers in Korea

ABSTRACT

This study, using the data from the questionnaire survey of researchers working for Korean national research institutes, investigates the consequences of conflicting occupational identities. Those researchers may have two different occupational identities: as a scientist and/or a civil servant. Those with a strong scientist identity support individualist values (self-development for research capabilities, pro-incentive, and information sharing) more solidly than those with a strong civil servant identity; for public-social values (altruism, trust in other organizational members, and organizational commitment), vice versa. The study casts practical implications for balanced alignment between self-recognized occupational identities and managerial strategies (incentive, performance evaluation, and training).     

Examination of images in Australian standardised writing assessments: a case for recognising social and cultural disadvantage

From a socio-cultural perspective, individuals interpret meaning from images depending on multiple factors including life experience, values, attitudes, interests and background. As such, engagement with, preference for and interpretation of images differs amongst viewers. From this premise, it seems unlikely that one visual writing assessment prompt will effectively suit all participants. This paper offers new research into the use of image in large-scale referenced-based narrative writing assessments over a 10-year period in Australia reporting on phase one of a comparative case study. Findings identify changes in prompt design and content each year, with significant changes accompanying the introduction of the National Writing Assessment in 2008. Conclusions drawn from the analysis state that while image is a powerful communicator of meaning, providing visual representations in national assessment plan for literacy and numeracy may privilege some participants over others, and in doing so, impact on student outcomes and contribute to stratifying disadvantage.     

The phonology of Slavic loanwords in Lithuanian

Since 9/11, Washington has viewed the new Europe as a protégé of the United States, whose role is to repair the political bridge across the Atlantic. Whereas the lure of the United States has started to weaken in Central European countries, the Baltic states have remained the most trustful new Europeans from Washington's point of view. Nonetheless, the Balts have not felt comfortable with the new European label. They have seemingly begun to define themselves as something special and have aspired to a voice of their own. Instead of being merely protégés of the United States, the Balts are transforming themselves into intermediaries between Brussels and Washington.     

新形势下党的建设面临的十大挑战

新世纪新阶段,世情、国情、党情发生了深刻变化,对党的建设提出了十大挑战。经济全球化的深入发展要求党培养全球眼光,提高统筹国内国际两个大局的能力;腐败的跨国化,使反腐倡廉建设面临着新情况;新一轮的自由化思潮和歪曲党的历史的虚无主义之风对党的政治路线和执政地位提出了重大挑战;社会阶层的分化对党整合各阶层利益提出了更高要求;公民社会的发展,给党的执政方式带来了新挑战;网络化、信息化的快速发展要求党的建设开拓新思路;党员队伍的不断壮大,对提高党员质量提出了新要求;党员流动性的增加使党的组织建设和思想建设面临着新挑战;非公企业主党员积极参与政治活动给党的干部队伍建设提出了新课题;反腐败斗争呈现出一些新特点,面临着更加严峻的形势和挑战。对此,必须深入把握这些新变化新挑战,不断提高党的建设的科学化水平,使党永远立于不败之地。     

Non-Traditional Overall National Security Outlook

The “New Security Concept” put forward by the Chinese authorities at the turn of the century, with “mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, and coordination” at its core, dealt mainly with non-traditional security approaches and measures in external security. However, it did not touch upon internal security or other traditional or non-traditional security issues in a broader sense. Therefore it is a low form of non-traditional security outlook and a low form of non-traditional national security outlook. When reviewing overall national security issues besides external security and international security, China has stuck to a traditional national security outlook. In comparison, taking “the people’s security as its aim,” the Overall National Security Outlook (ONSO) embodies non-traditional thinking and “attaches importance to both traditional and non-traditional security.” It is, therefore, an advanced non-traditional national security outlook. Though incorporating rich non-traditional national security issues, the ONSO deals with various traditional national security issues, as well. The ONSO is non-traditional in that it handles and highlights non-traditional national security issues; it is holistic because it pays dual attention to both traditional and nontraditional national security issues; it is advanced as it incorporates both traditional and non-traditional national security issues by means of non-traditional thinking.     

民间习惯的司法适用研究

我国是一个地域广阔且具有五千年历史文明的国家,在地域和文化不同的背景下,一部成文法很难解决生活中各种法律问题。民间习俗和国家法存在着不可避免的冲突,国家法因国家制定而产生,民间习惯则缺乏法律根据。解决民间习惯与国家法的冲突问题,改善我国法律规范,构建合情合理的法律体系是当今社会需要解决的问题。     

‘Together in the National Interest’: The Rhetoric of Unity and the Formation of the Cameron–Clegg Government

Following the formation of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat government in May 2010, David Cameron and Nick Clegg sought to persuade party members, the electorate and a sceptical media that their partnership would hold together for the duration of the parliament. Taking as its starting point Kenneth Burke's theory of rhetoric as identification, this article explores the strategies employed by senior Coalition figures to construct and present an image of unity to these different audiences. Of particular concern are appeals to the parties’ shared values and to the ‘national interest’, as well as the narrative of Britain's ‘debt crisis’. This narrative served to minimise inter‐party divisions by inviting MPs and supporters to unite behind the cause of deficit reduction, in opposition to the ‘fiscally irresponsible’ Labour party that had allegedly wrecked the economy. The article concludes by reflecting on the lessons for the partners in a future UK coalition government.