Harnessing civil society's knowledge for development policy: Potential and challenges for the Republic of Yemen

This exploratory case study investigated Yemeni civil society actors’ actual and potential contribution to policy‐making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, in the sectors prioritized in Yemen's national development strategy. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted in Sana'a between January and July 2015 with policy‐makers, researchers from academic institutions and civil society organizations. More specifically, this article discusses the role that YPRIs play in the public policy landscape of Yemen; the challenges they face in their interaction with policy‐makers; the opportunities they represent for policy actors in Yemen; and the factors enabling and limiting their influence, communication, inclusiveness and capacity. The authors conclude by contextualizing their findings within the ongoing conflict and drawing lessons for post‐war policy‐making in Yemen.     

优化北京高校外国留学生教育的问题及对策

美国、日本等发达国家将外国留学生作为本国经济发展人才储备的经验,为我国制定留学生工作的相关政策提供了借鉴。北京高校留学生教育在带来直接经济收益的同时,也为经济社会的发展提供了高素质的国际化人力资源。应建立与北京国际地位相适应的留学生工作体系,多方面提升留学生的教育层次,吸收和利用国外智力为北京的经济建设服务,推进留学生工作长期可持续发展。     

Policy Diffusion and Policy Transfer in Comparative Welfare State Research

For many years, comparative welfare state research has followed a ‘methodological nationalism’ in the sense that countries were treated as independent units. Yet the recent ‘spatial turn’ in comparative politics has also influenced welfare state research. For some years now, the field has been witnessing a growing interest in questions about interdependencies and policy diffusion between countries. In this article, we provide a structured overview of the state of the art in the policy diffusion and transfer literature that deals specifically with social policy. We present and critically evaluate existing theoretical concepts and quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches that enable the analysis of interdependencies between countries. Moreover, we summarize the empirical findings of quantitative and qualitative studies on the diffusion and transfer of social policy, from some pioneering studies to the latest findings. Against this background we point out what we believe to be promising avenues for future research. We focus on five areas: theoretical work on the mechanisms underlying diffusion and transfer; methodological approaches; the impact of domestic institutions and policy characteristics on social policy diffusion and transfer; programme‐specific dynamics; and the systematic combination of horizontal and vertical interdependencies.     

AGING,RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN A MODEL OF INTEREST GROUPS

The assessment of the degree of genetic variation in a natural population, and the nature of that variation, is of central importance in both theoretical and applied population studies. Two “variance” results in population genetics theory are presented. For the first, expressions are found for the expected difference in the estimates of genetic variation in a population obtained by two investigators sampling from the same population in the same generation. The second result concerns the question of whether the degree of genetic variation in a population is best estimated by using the number of alleles observed in a sample of genes or by the number of polymorphic sites observed in the sample. For some combinations of the actual degree of variation and the sample size the former is preferred while for other combinations the latter is preferred. The reason for this is discussed.     

国际冲突：概念、类型与解决

国际冲突是国际行为主体之间经常发生的国际现象，是国际政治学研究的重要内容。本文对国际冲突的概念、类型与解决作了学术上的梳理、审视与辨识，以便为人们正确认识纷繁复杂的国际现象提供理论范式，为学科的进一步发展构筑框架基石。     

金融监管与银行业证券业分业经营

:本文从金融监管的角度 ,针对全能银行制的弊端并结合中国的国情 ,提出中国目前应采取银行业证券业分业经营的模式 ,认为实行商业银行与投资银行分离制有利于维护金融市场的稳定 ,保护投资者、银行自身及存款人的利益     

完善我国国际工程承包法律制度的基本构想

文章认为 ,加强和完善我国国际工程承包法律制度 ,必须遵循国家主权、公平互惠、国际惯例、质量第一诸原则 ,制定科学的立法规划 ,加强高层次立法 ,推行的工程承包标准合同条件不仅要立足本土资源 ,而且 ,更应考虑与国际接轨的客观需要。     

A Commentary on the Triadic Theory of Influence as a Guide for Adapting HIV Prevention Programs for New Contexts and Populations

Summary

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the Collaborative HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project-South Africa (CHAMPSA) began and to present some of the results from this South African version of CHAMP. This paper informs readers of a number of lessons about international program translation. The first important lesson is that there are universal principles of health behavior change that seem to be useful across cultures. The implementation of these principles, however, needs to be informed by an in-depth understanding of local cultural contexts. The second important lesson is that it is possible to undertake large-scale, scientifically sophisticated community-based prevention research in developing countries through international collaborative research projects. It is the authors' hope that this mixture of science, service, and business will inspire other public health, community mental health, research, and business professionals to develop international prevention interventions that can be shown to be effective, and disseminated on a wide scale.     

西安经济技术开发区二次创业发展阶段主导产业的选择及对策

该研究报告立足西安经济技术开发区的区情,在“三为主一致力”方针和主导产业选择基准的基础上,论证将重加工组装工业中的装备制造业和高新技术产业中的新兴产业提升为开发区二次创业阶段的两大主导产业,并细化到具体小行业,从而突出开发区有别于其它开发区的产业特色,同时分析预测开发区产业结构中长期演变趋势,最后针对性地提出扶持开发区二次创业阶段主导产业成长的九项对策建议。     

中国加入国际组织建设的"理论缺失"思考

大国责任感和文化传统优势是中国加入国际组织的主要文化动因.在带着自己的伦理文化传统加入各种国际组织时,我们对现存国际体系和国际制度的态度和评判,说明我们自身存在不少理论缺失.如对强权与平权、责任与等级、合作与共识、冲突与干涉等关系的解说,都还缺乏有理论深度和说服力的中国说法.必须冲破固定思路约束,有理论意识地参与国际制度建设,才能向世界展示中国文化的现代优势.