统筹先进性与差异性——新型社会组织开展创先争优的方法论视角

在新型社会组织中开展创先争优活动存在一个重要的方法论问题，其核心是党的先进性与新型社会组织的差异性如何统筹。总的指导思想是科学处理好先进性与差异性的关系，即用先进性统帅差异性，用差异性落实先进性。但是在具体实施这一统筹的过程中又要区分新型社会组织的不同情况，进行较为细致的微观分析。可以说，正确合理地界定研究单元和变量是这一微观分析得以进行的关键。     

国有企业预算管理及改进研究

预算管理的本质就是试图将企业的所有管理事项，以量化的方式融合于一个体系之中，并进行相应的规划、控制的过程。该文首先对国内外预算管理研究理论进行简述和评价，指出中国目前国有企业预算管理的薄弱点，提出了以企业战略规划为基础、以价值链为导向、以现代预算管理制组织体系为保障、以信息化系统为支撑的“四位一体”的国有企业预算管理改进模式。     

论提高党统筹自身建设的科学化水平

党统筹自身建设的科学化水平指的是党的建设各个主体按照科学化的要求在理解、领导和组织党的建设过程中就统筹各项具体建设工作、协调多主体关系、调配各种资源、实现与环境良性互动等所表现出来的能力和水平。这是目前党的建设中的一项重要的基础性工作,关系党的建设的成效,也是存在问题相对比较多、比较突出的一个方面,亟需加强研究,切实改进。要提高党统筹自身建设的科学化水平,当前迫切需要提高党统筹总体布局中各项基本建设的科学化水平;提高党统筹自身建设各个领导机构的科学化水平;提高党统筹自身建设各种资源的科学化水平;提高党统筹自身建设与中心工作的科学化水平。当然最根本的是要掌握运用好统筹兼顾的方法,把党的建设工作作为一个系统化的整体抓紧抓好。     

构建和谐社会有赖制度安排的公平与公正

和谐社会是人们长期追求的一种社会理想,它所体现的是一种社会的公平与公正。而和谐社会不会自发地产生,它需要通过制度设计,在制度安排下得以实现。构建和谐社会,实现社会公平与公正,妥善解决社会严重两极分化问题,是维护社会稳定,促进社会文明,实现国民经济持续快速健康发展,全面建设小康社会的前提。因此,我们的制度安排及实施,必须有利于营造一个公平公正、有利于人的全面发展的社会环境,使其顺民心合民意,促进社会各成员能够公平地分享改革开放带来的各项成果。     

日据初期台湾闽南话会话课本教学和方言史价值

日本明治后期台湾闽南话会话课本的编写与日本侵略台湾有关.以适用的行业钡域和内容而分类,可以看出其实用的特点.其教学内容选取和教学方法比较科学,比如词组本位教学法和会话情景教学法教学效果明显.从语音、语法、词汇、语用等方面还可认识到其闽南话方言史研究价值.但要明确一点,其毕竟是日本当时推行其殖民化语言教学的产物,历史局限性不可忽视.     

Reply to Christine Sylvester, “Terrorwars: Boston,Iraq”: an examination of differences between counter-terrorism and war as seen through the Iraqi experience of occupation

This response examines what is overlooked in Sylvester’s analysis of similarities between the US police security response to the Boston marathon bombings (2013) and Kevin Powers’ fictionalised account of the US war operations in Al Tafar, Iraq (2004) and evaluates the consequences for our understanding of contemporary war. This is done by highlighting differences between the experience of residents in Boston and the (real) town of Tal Afar, key among them the insecurity, fear and calamity that result from the distinct political realities in these locations. The experience of war from the perspective of the victims adds an important dimension to the debate over the changing nature of war. At a time that is marked by an unprecedented level of technologisation and visual mediation, it brings into focus the fragmentary and often one-sided evidence on which our knowledge of contemporary war is based. It reminds us to ask not only what we know about war, but how we know it.     

An unfulfilling partnership: Ukraine and the West, 1991–2001

The political crisis in Ukraine in early 2001 and then the terrorist attacks against the US and the resulting dramatic change of international setting have sealed the trend that had emerged much earlier: the once promising partnership between Ukraine and the West has ended up in mutual unhappiness. As the West is discovering new ‘geopolitical pivots’ in the aftermath of 11 September, Ukraine has almost disappeared from the radar screen of Western attention. Yet for good reasons what happens in Ukraine, a currently uncertain and weakened country with a poor international reputation, still matters for the West. There has always been a close link between Ukraine's transition and Western attitudes towards Ukraine. This might be the moment to think afresh about past and future Western policies vis‐à‐vis Ukraine.     

Identifying neighborhood thresholds: An empirical exploration

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the threshold‐like effects of four aspects of neighborhood environment: poverty rate, adult nonemployment rate, female headship rate for families with children, and secondary school dropout rate. We used a sample consisting of virtually all census tracts from U.S. metropolitan areas. The relationship between the value of numerous neighborhood indicators in 1980 and subsequent changes in each of the four dimensions of neighborhood quality of family life from 1980 to 1990 was evaluated statistically using a regression model with a spline specification to test for nonlinear, threshold‐like processes.

Stressing the exploratory nature of the study, we find evidence of threshold‐like effects in an endodynamic relationship (poverty rate and subsequent changes in that rate), and in exodynamic relationships (occupational status and rental rates and subsequent changes in several neighborhood quality indicators). Implications for research and a spatially targeted neighborhood reinvestment policy are derived from the analysis.     

Comment on Charles C. Bohl's “New urbanism and the city: potential applications and implications for distressed inner‐city neighborhoods"—the politics of design: The new urbanists vs. the grass roots

Abstract

This article briefly reviews the origins of New Urbanism and its manifesto as emerging from the social change movements of the 1960s, which evolved out of ideas of a previous generation of American and European designers living through the rise of modern industrialization. Arising from the same turmoil of the 1960s, and parallel to the New Urbanists, evolved a more loosely affiliated network of progressive academic and practicing planners and architects who have aligned themselves with disenfranchised underclasses not benefiting from the wealth of the postwar era and who take direction not from a manifesto but from a body of thinking linked to a broader intellectual and political agenda. This group works primarily with grassroots organizations in lower‐income communities and intentionally stays out of the limelight to better serve its constituents. The article concludes with ideas for possible collaboration between these professional groups serving different ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.