美国加利福尼亚都市圈对中国的启示

正目前,世界上公认的五大世界级都市圈为纽约都市圈、伦敦都市圈、东京都市圈、巴黎都市圈和北美五大湖都市圈。它们已经成为当地人口最密集、经济最活跃、最富有竞争力的地区,是所在国家或地区经济发展的枢纽和参与全球竞争的制高点。     

大珠三角都市圈内的金融协调与融合趋势

“大珠三角金融圈”表现出跨流域、跨行政大区、跨不同体制的鲜明特征,目前金融合作的内容和层次不断提高、合作紧密性不断加强、金融圈从小到大的扩展路径正在形成。因此,应通过推动机构跨境互设与相互参股、加快金融创新步伐、协调推进区域金融服务基础设施建设等措施,建立以“大珠三角金融圈”为核心的区域金融市场,并在货币市场、股票市场、保险市场等三大金融市场中加强粤港澳三地的相互合作。     

地方政府关于水环境治理责任的分析研究

党的十九届五中全会通过的《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十四个五年规划和二〇三五年远景目标的建议》(以下简称《建议》)提出,持续改善环境质量.这是党中央深刻把握我国生态文明建设及生态环境保护形势,着眼美丽中国建设目标,立足满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要做出的重大战略部署.持续改善环境质量是不断满足人民对美好生活新期待的必然要求,也是生态文明建设的重要举措.而水生态环境治理是国家生态文明建设的重要内容,同时也是政府提供公共服务的重要内容,所以必须予以重视.但在现实中,政府作为公共权力部门,在水环境治理方面,还尚存诸多问题.本文将从地方政府的角度来探讨政府对于水环境治理应履行的责任和义务.     

西藏民族自治地方政府在社会治理中的作用分析

西藏民族自治地方政府是西藏自治区的管理机构,对西藏社会经济的发展,全面小康社会的建设起到了引导和指引的作用。全面而正确的了解西藏民族自治地方政府的作用和影响,能够让西藏民族自治地方政府更加快捷有效的管理和领导西藏人民,提高西藏民族自治地方政府治理工作的进行效率,对加速西藏地区全面的发展有着促进作用。     

文化产业振兴与地方政府行为分析

文化不仅是经济的重要组成部分,是推动经济发展的重要杠杆,同时也代表着一个国家和民族的文明程度、发展水平,地方政府的行为在文化产业振兴过程中具有重要意义,本文从一个典型案例入手,从地方政府的职能切入,解析地方政府行为,找寻地方政府在文化产业振兴过程的成功经验,通过问题解决明确地方政府应该发挥的作用,并且提出角色定位需要遵循的原则,建设性地提出地方政府在文化产业振兴中的角色扮演。     

广东省地方政府机构设置的差异性探讨

广东省地方政府机构的设置和全国其他地方政府一样,存在上下对口的现象,这样虽然有利于上令下达,但也存在不少弊端。因地制宜设置地方政府机构,是政府体制改革的内容之一。广东省有必要制定《广东省实施〈地方各级人民政府机构设置和编制管理条例〉办法》,保留《省条例》的积极成果,完善《地方条例》的不足,为深化广东省行政管理体制改革,提供制度保障。     

公民参与视野下的地方政府治理能力建设——基于中国语境的分析

作为国家治理的重要组成部分,地方治理能力高低直接影响国家治理能力的提升。参与时代,地方政府与公众互动的能力是地方治理能力的重要表现。我国地方政府面对公民参与时能力不足的表现有:左躲右闪、打退堂鼓、束手无策。公民参与中地方政府能力建设应以最大化公民参与积极功能和最小化消极功能、保障政府的帮助者和伙伴者及服务者角色、维护和增进公民与政府的关系为依据。公民参与中地方政府能力建设围绕制度能力、参与网络管理能力、政府人员胜任力三个层面,包括信息公开制度、参与制度、政府回应制度、识别和整合利益能力、协调合作能力、维护参与网络能力、尊重公民权利能力、选择参与策略能力等八项建设内容。     

互联网+视阈下的地方政府治理转型

党的十八届三中全会提出要改进社会治理方式,推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。地方政府作为国家治理体系的基石始终致力于寻求治理理念及治理方式的转型;而互联网+时代的兴起与发展也对地方政府治理转型提出了新的挑战与要求。为了实现善治与精细化管理等地方治理目标,地方政府也在互联网+时代背景的影响下显示了新的治理特征。应从变革政府治理理念,创新政府服务模式,营造安全网络环境,创新信息共享方式等方面入手,实现地方政府治理的良好转型。     

对深化地方政府大部制改革的分析

本文通过对地方政府的概念界定明确地方政府范围,结合西方政府改革的理论分析,表明当前我国地方政府大部制改革的紧迫性。结合已有的改革成果,对地方政府大部制改革提出了进一步建议。大部制改革要明确各级政府职能,把地方政府职责相近的部门进行合并,并对部门内部进行整合,实现机构少、职能清晰、充分回应公民需求的目的。     

大都市近郊工业区的转型研究——以广州黄埔区产业布局更新为例

本文借鉴当前城市转型和公共交通引导发展（TOD）的理念,探讨了TOD模式在广州黄埔区转型中的适应性,并在此基础上提出TOD的转型规划策略,为当前我国大都市轨道交通发展背景下的近郊区转型规划提供参考。     

African Americans,U.S. Poverty,and International Law

ABSTRACT

Statistical rates of poverty among African Americans often hide the cultural and historical nature of their intended consequences. Unfavorable outcomes for social change can occur when viewing poverty among African Americans in isolation from their unique historical and cultural experiences and U.S. social, political, and capitalistic influences. While pressures to subordinate African Americans continue, African Americans also exert pressure (e.g., social movements) as human agents in their efforts toward self-determination. In order to understand and/or ameliorate poverty in the US, policy makers, researchers, and educators must first deal with the cultural hegemony undergirding it.     

Global Centrality and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: A Test of Two Hypotheses

This article provides a quantitative assessment of two global city hypotheses: Sassen’s polarization and Hamnett’s professionalization claims. We conduct our analysis by using a continuous measure of global city status developed by researchers at the Global and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) and examining its correlation with the Gini index of household income inequality with relevant controls across a large sample of U.S. metropolitan areas in 2008. We examine industrial employment distribution as a causal pathway by which global city formation may influence urban income structures, as per Sassen and Hamnett’s original hypotheses. Results show that global city status is consistently associated with higher levels of inequality, but neither theorist’s claims about causal mechanisms are supported. This begs the question: What explains the correlation? We suggest an alternative hypothesis relating global city status to the distribution of educational credentialing.     

Asian Americans and Voting Participation: Comparing Racial and Ethnic Differences in Recent U.S. Elections

This research assesses the significance of race and ethnicity in the participation of Asian Americans in recent U.S. elections. It reviews the major characteristics of the nonwhite, multiethnic population in recent census surveys and discusses the necessity for voting behavior research to address effects of international migration on eligibility issues in voting participation. Results from analyzing U.S. Current Population Survey Voter Supplement files, 1994–2000, indicate that Asian Americans' apparent deficit in voting participation among voting‐age persons can be reduced, removed, or even reversed when restricting analyses only to eligible persons. Multivariate analyses controlling for a set of institutional, contextual, and individual factors show that being Asian and foreign born may have the net effect of increasing voting registration, while being U.S. born and Asian may have the contrary effect, compared to non‐Hispanic whites of comparable background. Nativity is not significant in impacting turnout among registered Asians as a whole, but U.S.‐born Asians are less likely to turn out compared to their white counterparts. Among other findings, being foreign born may enhance the registration likelihood for Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian American citizens and the turnout likelihood of registered Korean Americans.     

Occupational Race Segregation,Globalization, and White Advantage: White-Black Earnings Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Addressing the need to systematically assess the materialist foundations of color-blind racism, we use insights from critical race theory to investigate the metropolitan-level racial inequality at the turn of the century. Namely, we examine the association between occupational race segregation and white advantage (i.e., white-black earnings inequality) for men and women in 202 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas in the year 2000. We find that occupational race segregation exacerbates white advantage for both male and female workers, supporting the tenets of the materialist conception of color-blind racism. We also consider how processes of globalization and labor market transformation impact white advantage. Our findings indicate that global capital increases white advantage for males, whereas foreign direct investment and casualization serve to decrease it. They also indicate that exports decrease white advantage for females, whereas percent foreign born increases it.     

Comparing the discussion networks and voluntary association memberships of immigrants and non-immigrants in U.S. suburban gateways

Using survey data from five Chicago (U.S.) suburbs, we build regression models comparing the social lives of immigrants and non-immigrants. We define immigration several ways (citizenship, legal status, immigrant generation, length of time in U.S., and race/ethnicity). Results indicate that the size, longevity and density of immigrants’ discussion networks are mostly comparable to those of non-immigrants, as are the number and longevity of their voluntary association memberships. Immigrants and non-immigrants differ little in geographic location of their network confidants and organizational memberships. However, there is less racial/ethnic variety in immigrants’ social lives, particularly if they are Latinx or not citizens.     

Shared spaces,shared structures: Latino social formation and African American English in the U.S. south

This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English (AAE) by adolescent Latinos attending a multi‐ethnic middle school in North Carolina. The study couples quantitative variationist analysis of four ‘core’ grammatical features of AAE (invariant be, copula deletion, past‐tense copula leveling, and third‐person singular –s absence) with the findings of an ethnographic study of Latino adolescent identity in order to better understand the social processes leading to the incorporation of AAE grammar into English varieties spoken by Latinos. Results show that Latino students from across social formations make use of AAE grammatical features, but differ significantly from African American students in terms of sociolinguistic patterning. Ethnographic data shed light on linguistic data in three domains: (1) differences in use of AAE structures between male and female Latino/a students; (2) the prolific use of AAE by one gang‐affiliated student; and (3) the racial complexities within the ethnic category ‘Latino.’     

The allocation of time to grocery shopping: A comparison of Canadian and U.S. households

This study examines grocery shopping time and incorporates some of the advances made in the estimation of time use, including enjoyment of time spent in an activity, the endogeneity of grocery prices, and simultaneity of time and expenditures. Three groups of consumers are compared: Anglophone and Francophone Canadians and U.S. households. Results indicate that the model explains more of the variation in time use for Anglophone Canadians and U.S. households than for Francophone Canadians.She currently conducts research in the areas of consumer behavior and economic outcomes associated with drug use and life course implications of retirement. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988.Her research interests are food distribution, retailing, consumer behavior, consumer satisfaction and arts management. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1991.