NGO Networks,the Diffusion and Adaptation of NGO Managerialism,and NGO Legitimacy in Latin America

Nongovernmental organization (NGO) networks have become key instruments used by NGOs in Latin America. Because these networks have important roles to play in advocating for the sector, earning public support, and improving the provision of public goods and services, understanding these networks is important to understanding the NGO sector more broadly. The article examines how NGO networks use collective texts to diffuse and adapt managerial practices. NGO networks use elements of managerialism and their adaptations to signal quality, secure recognition in social development, identify strengths and weaknesses of the sector, and define civil society in order to garner sector legitimacy. While looking at managerialism from a critical perspective, the article finds that understanding NGOs networks and the diffusion and adaption of NGO practices can further pinpoint effective sources of sector legitimacy and help to strengthen the sector’s role in social development.     

The Meta Co-production of Community Outcomes: Towards a Citizens’ Capabilities Approach

This article contributes to the growing amount of literature on co-production, focusing on co-production of public outcomes and taking the perspective of local government and public managers. A model for explaining the dynamics of outcomes’ creation at the community level is provided. The core argument of the article is that community outcomes result from a sum of peer production, co-production and inter-organizational collaboration processes promoted and activated at individual, organizational and network level across the public, third and private sectors. Institutional, managerial and organizational implications are discussed. The article argues that local government and public managers are asked to play new roles and to employ a new ethos grounded in a citizens capabilities’ approach.     

NGO Hybridisation as an Outcome of HIV Services Delivery in Global Fund-Supported Programmes in Ukraine

Ukraine has one of the world’s fastest growing HIV rates and was one of the largest recipients of funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF). Doctoral research recently completed by the author investigates the conduct and practice of international and national nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) as Principal Recipients of GF grants in Ukraine from 2004 to 2012. The study aimed to understand how NGO-based services were implemented in the context of a state-owned health care system. An ethnographic enquiry including 50 participant interviews was conducted in three oblasts in Ukraine, and in its capital, Kyiv, between 2011 and 2013. The paper is based on a doctoral research and presents some of the findings that emerged from the analysis. The author argues that the accent on NGO-run services promoted by GF has rendered the original grass roots, community-based NGOs, to be undermined or replaced by ‘quasi’, hybrid NGOs created by health officials and AIDS centres head doctors. The outcome of such hybridization is a weakened civil society that is dependent on external funding and is unable to genuinely represent their communities.     

超越自在:论阿伦特的自由观

阿伦特的自由观是阿伦特政治思想的重要组成部分,其最重要特色或许就是对政治自由的强调。在阿伦特看来,自由并非是人天然存在的某种本质,而是、也只能是政治自由,离开政治以及政治实践得以展开的公共空间,自由就不可能存在,而离开自由的政治也不是真正的政治。从生活必需品和物质必然性的束缚中解脱出来的过程只是解放,而非自由。自由作为政治概念不仅不能停留在物质解放的层次,而且必须以实践的方式进入公共空间;也就是说,自由只存在于行动和言说领域,而不存在于思想王国或哲学王国,所谓主观自由、内在自由等等,都不是真正的自由。自由也并不意味着安全、舒适、富足,恰恰相反,它需要付出勇气、代价,收获的则是尊严和光荣。     

英国刑事相似事实证据规则的新发展——以《2003年刑事审判法》为基点

自《2003年刑事审判法》颁布以来,英国刑事相似事实证据规则发生巨大变革。新法将相似事实证据归于不良品格证据项下,并废除了普通法上的相似事实证据规则,改而以类型化的一般相关性为可采性标准,并辅以详尽的采纳程序。这虽然改变了普通法严格的可采性标准,限制了法官的自由裁量权,却大大简化和统一了相似事实证据规则的适用,也促进司法公正的实现。     

企业文化建设与公共雕塑艺术

本文通过首先对企业文化与公共雕塑艺术之间的相关概念及功能的探讨,进而分析企业公共雕塑艺术的主要文化特征,最后阐述企业公共雕塑艺术是企业文化的物化,企业公共雕塑作为一项设计活动是企业文化建设中不可或缺的重要内容之一,并贯穿于企业发展的始终。     

解构的魅力与魔力——评德里达解构主义的得与失

德里达用自己毕生的学术生涯,来拒斥西方中心主义,尊重"他者"文化,关切弱势人群和边缘人群,这一切都将成为人类珍贵的精神财富被永远保存.然而,德里达的学说复杂艰涩,歧义丛生,其中也有不少令人遗憾之处.反复阅读其文本,审视其立场,对未来东西方文化的建构大有裨益.     

试论霍布斯设计的现代政教体制

本文通过分析托马斯·霍布斯在《利维坦》和《比希莫斯》中的神学政治论,评判霍布斯对于宗教的哲学立场与实践立场,阐明这种宗教抉择背后霍布斯政治哲学的根基,同时评介多位现代学者对霍布斯神学政治论的研究,并且展望一个较大规模的研究:即现代政教合一体制是否存在的问题.     

Young Adult Gambling Behaviors and their Relationship with the Persistence of ADHD

Young adulthood is a period renowned for engagement in impulsive and risky behaviors, including gambling. There are some indications that young adults exhibit higher gambling rates in comparison to older adults. Problem gambling has also been linked to ADHD. This longitudinal study examines the relationship between gambling and ADHD among an epidemiological sample of young adults (n = 235; males = 179, females = 56) aged 18-24. Results indicate that individuals who report childhood ADHD symptoms which persist into young adulthood experience greater gambling problem severity than participants with no ADHD or those with non-persistent ADHD.     

论两宋江西地区的交通及其影响

两宋时期,江西地区的交通面貌发生了巨大变化.北宋时期,大庾岭驿路成为京师与岭南交通的最重要通道,举凡广南物资北运、官员赴任、商旅往来等,大都经由此路.靖康乱后,南北交通受阻,东西交通成为南宋交通的重点,信州-袁州驿路成为东西交通的孔道.江西境内四条支线驿路或直接或间接与以上两条干道相连接,构成了两宋江西地区发达的驿路交通网络.交通的发达对两宋江西地区经济、文化的繁荣产生了积极的推动作用和深远影响.