A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults?

This article introduces a novel transnational family configuration (TNFC) approach to study the diversity of family forms across kinship and geographical boundaries. Integrating theoretical insights from family sociology and transnational family research, it examines contemporary families as personal networks that encompass both subjectively identified and potentially transnationally dispersed kin and non-kin members. Drawing on original survey data and in-depth interviews with adults aged 55+ living in Switzerland, it compares migrants’ and non-migrants’ personal family networks. The results indicate that these networks are both diverse and transnational. Although there is a strong correlation between transnationality and migration background, other life-course factors also contribute to the development of transnational family networks beyond the scope of migrant ‘exceptionalism’. By advocating the adoption of a TNFC approach to the study of contemporary families, in diverse population groups and various cultural contexts, this study paves the way for future research in this area.     

论科学发展观指导下的文化建设

科学发展观是中国特色社会主义文化建设的重要指导思想,科学发展观从一个崭新的高度进一步强调了文化建设的重要性。以科学发展观指导文化建设,就必须更加突出以人为本,坚持正确的文化政绩观,合理统筹文化各领域的发展,积极推进文化创新。     

党的执政能力建设与改革选人用人机制探析

党的十六届四中全会关于深化党内选举、选人用人机制改革的论述清晰地表明,这是新世纪新阶段加强党的执政能力建设的一个重要的新思路、新要求、新特点。当前的选人用人机制与加强党的执政能力建设存在着不相适应的地方。加强党的执政能力建设必须深入进行选人用人机制改革的探讨,努力构筑一个更加科学合理的选人用人机制。     

高校体育课实施选项教学的调查

该文剖析了目前普通高等学校实施体育课选项教学现状,提出解决问题的对策,为普通高等学校体育教学改革的健康推进提供依据。     

Cities and the state in Spain

Conclusions Leaving aside details and qualifications, the major turning point in relations between cities and the monarchy occurred during the second half of the sixteenth century. The cities paid a very high price for their initial support of the crown. The more the logic of imperial power took over, the less cities had any chance of developing on their own. Nonetheless, they never became simple toys in royal hands. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, as the power of Genoan financiers declined, the monarchy tried again to obtain the support of cities, which finally gave in - at a price. The most crucial price of all was the imposition on the crown of a fiscal system (the servicios de millones) that was even more favorable than the alcabala to the cities having votes in the Cortes. Furthermore, the millones placed severe restrictions on the monarch's use of the funds; from that point on, the monarch had to avert his eyes from the procedures the privileged cities used to collect the taxes that constituted his principal ordinary revenues.Unlike the French case, the Spanish experience, as seen from Castile, did not end with the complete submission of cities to the monarchy's expansive centralization. Yet we must recognize that the cities never tried to create a form of political organization that could have been a Castilian version of the urban republics. Formally the situation unfolded as a series of ritual confrontations in the Cortes, where each of the parties was well aware of its limits. With that balance of forces, any attempt to enhance state power the monarchy tried to initiate could only succeed with the approval of the cities.This series of intermediate barriers meant that the process by which communities became subject to statist royal power was halting and indirect. In addition, great administrative decisions became diluted when they entered the interlocked network formed by local urban authorities. Not until the first half of the eighteenth century, after the liquidation of Spain's imperial territories elsewhere in Europe, can we speak of the consolidation of an administrative monarchy, a true predecessor of what one day would become a Spanish state.     

Nonparametric analysis of recurrent gap time data

Abstract

Recurrent event data are frequently encountered in longitudinal studies. In many applications, the times between successive recurrent events (gap times) are often of interest and lead to problems that have received much attention recently. In this article, using the approach of inverse probability-of-censoring weights (IPCW), we propose nonparametric estimators for the estimation of the bivariate distribution and survival functions for gap times of recurrent event data. We also consider the estimation of Kendall’s tau for two gap times by expressing it as an integral functional of the bivariate survival function. The asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators are established. Simulation studies are conducted to investigate their finite sample performance.     

对法的矫枉过正的再思考

中国自清末以来缺乏对传统法价值的理性分析,未能真正做到吸之精华、弃之糟粕,使法的变革缺乏传统动力的支持,这也是近代以来中国法的变革举步维艰的重要原因之一。现阶段我国法治建设中存在的问题,主要是立法滞后于社会的发展。所以我国法治建设必须要矫枉过正。     

对中国革命与建设道路和中国农村实际相结合的几点认识

毛泽东思想与邓小平理论作为马克思主义中国化的两大理论成果 ,有历史的继承与发展关系。本文围绕两大理论成果的形成及作用同他们对中国农村社会实际的关注 ,指明了两大理论在马克思主义与中国实际相结合的一致性 ,明确了在中国这样一个农业大国 ,要使革命和建设成功 ,必须要关注和解决好农民问题     

德法关系的历史发展与欧洲联合

德法两国间从中世纪开始的频繁战争 ,给两国乃至欧洲人民带来了巨大灾难。因此 ,从近代以来 ,人们开始探索通过欧洲联合的途径化解法德之间的仇怨。 2 0世纪 5 0年代上半期 ,德法两国终于在欧洲一体化的框架下走向和解。德法和解是推动欧洲联合的主要因素。二战后的欧洲一体化发展则是德法两国取得和解的惟一可选择道路