Social inclusion for whom and towards what end? A critical discourse analysis of youth and sport policies in Turkey

This article examines the social inclusion policy strategies of the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sport (MYS). Using a critical discourse analysis, based on Norman Fairclough’s work (2012), the aim is to analyse the discourses used within policy-related documents regarding social inclusion, youth, and sport. In order to achieve this objective, we analysed 15 key documents, including annual activity reports, national youth and sport policy documents, and strategic plans produced by the Ministry. Findings revealed that the dominant discourses about young people seem to be embedded within neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies in which depoliticised notions of ‘employment/apprenticeship’ and ‘the family’ are put forward as solutions for the social inclusion of young people. However, such a discourse risks further sustaining the social exclusion of youth, denying their full citizenship.     

高等学校法人内部的困惑与矛盾分析

建立现代大学制度的核心是实施法人治理,协调处理好高等学校法人的内外部关系。高等学校是一个利益共同体,在现行法律法规框架下,其内部各利益主体间的关系中存在着党政领导制度"预设"的矛盾、学术权利与行政权力的冲突以及学校权力与教师权利、学生权力(利)的内部矛盾。高等学校法人内部的困惑与矛盾成因有制度性因素,也有科层制模式下内部权力结构与运行上的问题。正确认识和分析高等学校法人内部的困惑与矛盾,实施法人治理是现代大学建设必然的路径选择。     

论邓小平对马克思主义按劳分配理论的贡献

邓小平在社会主义建设的新的历史时期,根据我国社会主义社会的性质、特点和发展变化,创立了坚持以按劳分配为主体、多种分配形式并存的分配原则为核心内容的按劳分配理论,从而丰富和发展了马克思主义的按劳分配学说。     

开放经济视角下的金融发展对城乡收入差距的影响

文章运用1998-2010年省际数据考察开放经济背景下金融发展对城乡收入差距的影响.实证研究发现:对外开放对缩小居民收入差距所发挥的作用有限,而金融发展则进一步扩大了城乡收入差距;同时,政府财政支出、经济增长率等因素也在一定程度上对拉大城乡收入差距起到了助推作用.从城镇化发展来看,中西部地区城镇化发展有助于缩小居民收入差距.对此,本文提出两条建议:改善城乡间的公共资源配置;加大对农村地区的扶持力度,实现城乡间协调发展.     

First Exits from the Swedish Labor Market Due to Disability

Nowadays, with an increasingly aging population, an increasing proportion of the population on disability benefits, and an implicitly lower level of economic output and foregone tax revenue, disability has become a major public policy issue in many countries. Estimating both single risk and competing risks models on a Swedish longitudinal database, this study analyzes the risk of exit from the labor market due to disability at a certain age, conditional on having remained in the labor force until that age. The explanatory variables did not have identical coefficients across destination types. For example, the estimated single risk model shows that a higher level of education decreased the hazard of exiting the labor market with a disability pension, while the estimated competing risks model suggests that a higher level of education increased the hazard of exiting with a partial disability pension, but it decreased the hazard of exiting with a full disability pension.

Pension design and gender: Analyses of developed and developing countries

In this article the authors examine different ways of organizing and financing pension systems in China, France, Ghana, Jordan, Mexico, Poland, and Sweden. They explore the advantages and disadvantages of the combinations of different features with special reference to gender differences. Men and women have different patterns of work history, with women usually having a lower participation rate in the formal labor market, including interrupted career in response to child rearing, as well as lower wages in general. Women have a longer life expectancy than men and are more likely to become widows than men are to become widowers. These differences influence the financial resources available to women in old age, depending on how a pension system is designed.     

Social Transformation in China and the Development of Social Assessment

Since the late 1990s, China has been pursuing a policy of economic expansion with extensive investment in large-scale infrastructure projects. The social side effects of these projects—such as involuntary resettlement—are but the tip of the iceberg of so-called externalities of economic transformation. This paper introduces the background and methodology of social assessment in China and argues that the assessment of social risks in development projects and programmes, undertaken as an integral part of a larger complex of future-oriented sustainability strategies in China, can be analysed as particular ‘governmental technologies’ in the sense of the Foucauldian school.