Was there a ‘Youthquake’ in the 2017 general election?

Studies using data from the British Election Study and the British Social Attitudes survey have concluded that the case for a significant rise in turnout amongst young people at the 2017 general election remains unproven. A limitation of these data sets for assessing the so-called Youthquake thesis is the small number of younger voters they contain. In this research note we use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey to produce more robust estimates of turnout amongst people aged under thirty between the 2010, 2015, and 2017 general elections. Our findings support the claim that turnout increased markedly among voters in this age group in 2017. They also demonstrate that the increase in youth turnout was not specific to 2017 but, rather, represented a continuation of a change between 2010 and 2015. Our analysis confirms the heightened importance of age as a predictor of vote choice in 2017, with younger voters significantly more likely to vote Labour compared to 2010 and 2015.     

学科视野中的历史政治学:以历史社会学、政治史、比较政治学为参照

历史政治学是中国学者提出的研究政治学之全新范式,但当然不是从零开始,而有众多可资利用之知识资源,本文探讨其与历史政治学之关系。历史政治学与历史社会学均致力于带回历史、带回国家,并共享众多方法;但后者有西方中心论偏见,奉行价值无涉原则,止于理解或解释;历史政治学则破除西方中心论,公正对待中国等非西方国家、文明丰富的政治实践,且有明确价值追求,致力于从历史中探究善治之道。历史政治学呼吁历史学再度重视政治史,并使之有政治学想象力。历史政治学可为比较政治学带入大历史视野,以矫正其以西式政治制度为标准的偏失。     

关于统一战线理论研究中的几个问题

统战理论研究是一项系统工程.要完成这项任务,从方法到观念,从基本概念到范畴体系都要有一个总体性的把握.本文从方法论、统战观、体系研究三方面探讨了统战理论研究的原则问题.     

关于马克思主义与现实问题的对话

马克思主义与现实问题需要结合新的形势加以研究 ,只有把马克思主义的基本原理同现实生活紧密结合起来 ,才能坚持和发展马克思主义。首先 ,不能回避当代资本主义的发展变化问题 ;其次 ,要正确认识国际社会主义运动的曲折问题 ;最后 ,坚定不移地走中国特色社会主义的发展道路。     

陷害教唆行为研究——兼及与犯罪停止形态的关系

在系统梳理中外立法与理论关于陷害教唆的规定和学说的基础上,以陷害教唆的体系地位即教唆故意为立足点,具体分析了七种情况下陷害教唆的认定和处理问题,驳诘了各种偏颇之论。     

司法过程中的法律方法论

法律方法是法治理想成为可能的条件之一。本文通过对种种法律方法关系的梳理,揭示了法律方法对维护法治的积极意义。作者认为,法律发现是法律方法中首先使用的方法,而法律推理则是由成文法向判决转换的必用方法。在法律发现到法律推理的过程中,法律解释、法律论证、价值衡量、漏洞补充等都发挥着重要作用。     

走向环境治理的多元共治模式:现实挑战与路径选择

党的十九大报告针对生态文明建设提出了“构建政府、企业、社会和公众共同参与的环境治理体系”的指导思想,倡导在环境保护与环境治理领域引入共建共治共享的理念,打造基于多元主体共同参与的新型环境治理模式,为解决日益复杂化和动态化的环境治理问题提供了新思路,也为全球生态环境治理贡献了中国智慧。实践中,多元共治模式面临着环境治理权力结构安排不尽科学合理、跨部门治理主体间信息共享和协调性差、政府监管的权威性和有效性不足、企业主体性作用发挥不够以及社会力量参与的有效性和有序化偏低等诸多挑战。为此,需要从厘清多元主体职责分工、创新生态服务投入机制、优化环境治理协同机制、提升政府环境监管效能、引导社会力量有序有效参与等方面完善相应的制度安排,以推动新型环境治理体系高效运转起来。     

A response to Steven Feierman’s ‘writing history: flow and blockage in the circulation of knowledge’

ABSTRACT

This paper responds to Steven Feierman’s ‘Writing history: flow and blockage in the circulation of knowledge.’ Feierman has noted that most of the publications produced in Tanzania, and in Africa more generally, do not circulate to America. As a result, American scholars do not have access to such publications. The consequence of this phenomenon is that American scholars have difficulty producing African historical knowledge that is rich in context. While agreeing with Feierman’s thought-provoking intervention, this paper makes three main propositions. First, while acknowledging the problem of knowledge circulation between Africa and America, the paper renders visible an equally serious and disturbing reality: that the circulation of knowledge between African institutions is far more limited than it is between Africa and America or Europe. Many Africans consume knowledge that is largely produced in America and Europe. Secondly, while agreeing with Feierman that many scholars in America have difficulty producing historical knowledge about Africa that is rich in context, the paper argues that it is still possible for historians to produce contextually-rich knowledge. To do so, it is proposed, such historians need to craft locally-based methodological strategies that are sensitive to Africans’ perspectives on their changing cultural and physical world. Finally, while recognising that the limited circulation of knowledge is an important reason for some American scholars to produce historical knowledge about Africa which is rich in context, the paper offers four additional explanations on this problem, namely the failure of some scholars to conduct sustained primary field research in Africa; lack of personal sacrifice, a proper attitude and commitment to do long-term research in Africa; the tendency of some scholars from America to make no effort to find works produced in African institutions of higher learning when they visit Africa; and the growing over-reliance on digitised sources of information for producing histories, sources which can hardly capture such things as emotions, feelings, thoughts, silences, or cosmologies that are inevitable in the production of contextually-rich historical knowledge.     

关于新时期社区群众工作方法论创新的思考

做好新时期的社区群众工作,是公安基层基础工作的着力点。但由于受各种主、客因素的影响,各地基层派出所社区民警仍存在着与做好群众工作不相适应的问题。要做好新时期的社区群众工作,方式方法至关重要,因而社区民警必须创新并科学运用社区群众工作方法。同时要在工作实践中坚定群众工作理念,找准自己在社区群众工作中的履职定位,不断提升自身的社区群众工作能力和素质。要加强对社区民警的培训和评聘考核激励,切实健全一套社区群众工作的长效机制。