Does China’s middle class think and act democratically? Attitudinal and behavioral orientations toward urban self-government

In the West, the middle class has been considered a potent agent of the sociopolitical transition toward democracy and the cornerstone of democratic rule. Does a middle class in China think and act democratically and hence serve as the harbinger of democratic change in that country? This study attempts to answer this critical question by examining the attitudinal and behavioral orientations of middle-class individuals toward grassroots self-government in urban China. It is based on data collected from a representative-sample survey conducted in Beijing. The findings indicate that China’s middle class expects grassroots self-government to be formed in a democratic way; yet the middle class is critical of the currently-implemented self-government system because it is not organized as democratically as they expect, and therefore the middle class is less likely to participate in the system. These findings have significant implications for the role of the Chinese middle class in the democratization of China.     

夫妻财产隐名共有人权利保护的法律思考——一则妻子擅自卖房案引发的思考

夫妻显名方擅自处分共有产的类案中,法官们往往徘徊于交易第三人与事实物权人之间利益平衡之间。而这一利益平衡的过程,实则体现的是登记公信力与真实权利人保护的消长关系。法官的判断过程必须准确把握登记制度的本旨、婚姻家庭制度的价值取向和社会大众一般权利意识。在保护善意交易的同时,必须对恶意利用瑕疵登记进行交易的行为作出否定性的评价,以平衡真实权利人的权益。     

党员干部要养成调查研究的习惯

加强党的执政能力建设是新时期党的建设新的伟大工程的紧迫任务。党的干部队伍的执政能力在一定意义上表现为调查研究的能力和素质,因为只有通过调查研究才能把理论与实践创造性地结合起来,才能掌握实情,发现规律,解决问题。养成调查研究的习惯是时代的需要,是干部队伍党性锻炼的源泉和基本功,调查研究工作做好了,落实科学发展观、建设和谐社会就有了保证。     

论侵权领域的当事人意思自治原则

当事人意思自治原则是涉外合同领域确定准据法的首要原则,但近年来,当事人意思自治原则有向侵权领域扩展的趋势,其原因有内、外两方面。侵权领域选择法律的做法可以促使当事人更好地解决争议。     

提高高校课堂教学质量需引进网络教学评估

采用现代化管理手段,科学评价教师课堂教学质量,是实现教学科学管理、提高教学质量的有力措施。在深入研究当前课堂教学质量评估状况的基础上,引进网络教学质量评估可以提供师生交流的网络平台,提供多层次的评估指标体系,提供富有人情味儿的结果反馈。     

Culture Wars,Secular Realignment,and the Gender Gap in Party Identification

Changes in the U.S. partisan balance over the past decade are often attributed to the enhanced political salience of cultural issues. Yet as white men have continued to become more Republican in recent years, white women increasingly identify with the Democrats. To the extent that cultural issues are influencing this partisan change, men and women must be responding differently to this cultural agenda. Using a pooled ANES data set from 1988 through 2000, I explore the extent to which cultural values are responsible for this gender realignment. Findings suggest that salient cultural issues influence the partisan choices of both men and women, however in somewhat different ways. For women, the issues themselves—reproductive rights, female equality, and legal protection for homosexuals—have become increasingly important determinants of party identification. For men, the influence of cultural conflict on partisanship is argued to be equally pervasive, albeit less direct.     

Parental Socialization and Rational Party Identification

This article constructs a rational choice model of the intergenerational transmission of party identification. At a given time, identification with a party is the estimate of average future benefits from candidates of that party. Experienced voters constantly update this expectation using political events since the last realignment to predict the future in accordance with Bayes Rule. New voters, however, have no experience of their own. In Bayesian terms, they need prior beliefs. It turns out that under certain specified conditions, these young voters should rationally choose to employ parental experience to help orient themselves to politics. The resulting model predicts several well–known features of political socialization, including the strong correlation between parents' and children's partisanship, the greater partisan independence of young voters, and the tendency of partisan alignments to decay.     

Sleaze or clear blue water?: the evolution of corporate and pressure group representation at the major UK party conferences

There has been growing academic and public interest in corporate political lobbying in both the UK and EU in recent years. In Britain, links between politicians and commercial interests have been one of the areas examined by the Committee on Standards in Public Life (‘the Nolan Committee’ and now ‘the Neill Committee’). A visible but under‐researched aspect of political lobbying by firms and other groups is the range of activities that take place at annual party conferences. An exhaustive study of these activities at the three main British party conferences between 1994–97 is reported, covering the period from Tony Blair's first appearance as party leader to the aftermath of the 1997 General Election. There is clear growth of visible lobbying, particularly at the Labour conferences, over the period leading up to the election, and a dropping off in 1997; particularly at the Conservative conference. The implications of the results for organisations, and particularly for public affairs practitioners, are considered. Copyright © 2002 Henry Stewart Publications     

经济全球化与21世纪党的建设创新

经济全球化给党的建设提出了新课题。必须适应经济全球化的新形势,实施党的建设创新战略,开创经济全球化时代党的建设和社会主义现代化建设的新局面。     

以“三个代表”为指针 加强中心城区党建工作

加强中心城区党建工作必须以"三个代表”的思想为指针,紧密结合城区党建工作的实际情况,调查研究,总结经验,找出薄弱环节,查找深层次原因,切实解决存在的问题,探索并建立中心城区党建工作的新思路和新机制.