Public procurement of innovation and local authority procurement: procurement modes and framework conditions in three European cities

Local authorities present complex implementation settings for public procurement of innovation (PPI) practices and include a range of barriers, yet their proximity to citizens and local economic actors suggests that they are likely to encounter unmet needs in advance of national governments, creating potential to act as lead users. This paper develops a conceptualisation of the local authority procurement environment, using it as a framework for analysing the potential for PPI in three city authorities across Europe, representing three distinct modes of public procurement: functional procurement, tactical procurement and strategic procurement. The paper proposes that local authorities are broadly characterised by cyclical, geographically bounded procurement activity, which contains potential for stimulating incremental innovation through normal procurement activity if the external institutional setting is permissive. The paper suggests conditions for increasing the possibilities for more disruptive innovation through local authority procurement and areas for further research.     

对青海省方志工作的几点思考

本文总结了青海省新编方志工作中的成就和不足,并对续志工作提出了一些合理的建议。     

New neighbours in a time of change: local pragmatics and the perception of asylum centres in rural Denmark

Asylum centres in rural areas are an increasingly common mode of managing asylum seekers in Denmark. These centres’ arrival occurs in a context of protracted rural crisis, as demographic and economic changes reshape local communities. Yet research on these processes remains scarce, issues concerning asylum and the rural being seldom conceived together. At the same time, majority population attitudes towards refugees are often depicted through the opposed poles of xenophobia and humanitarianism. Based on ethnographic research, this article examines the meanings and consequences of asylum centres for rural Danish communities. Drawing on anthropological theory on the mutuality of social life we argue that asylum centres become embedded in pre-existing relations within local communities and between them and the centralising Danish welfare state. Local communities sometimes were initially sceptical about asylum centres, but they generally developed a collective, pragmatic approach towards them in contrast to the divided, ideological cast of national debates on asylum. By shifting focus from the national to the local, from the urban to the rural, and from the migrants to the neighbouring communities, a less polarising and more everyday mode of relating to the arrival of asylum seekers becomes visible.     

公众对不同媒体广告态度的调查研究

通过对不同广告媒体态度指标体系、项目及广告的特征,综合分析了公众对媒体广告的态度体验。选取西安市中心地区中等经济收入被试347名。结果表明:公众对广告整体态度是积极的;电视广告是最实用、有效的媒体广告;公众更关注广告信息传递方面的特征,广告中有产品价格介绍是重要的广告信息传递特征。     

Fear of Miscoordination and the Robustness of Cooperation in Dynamic Global Games With Exit

This paper develops a framework to assess how fear of miscoordination affects the sustainability of cooperation. Building on theoretical insights from Carlsson and van Damme (1993), it explores the effect of small amounts of private information on a class of dynamic cooperation games with exit. Lack of common knowledge leads players to second guess each other's behavior and makes coordination difficult. This restricts the range of equilibria and highlights the role of miscoordination payoffs in determining whether cooperation is sustainable or not. The paper characterizes the range of perfect Bayesian equilibria as the players' information becomes arbitrarily precise. Unlike in one‐shot two‐by‐two games, the global games information structure does not yield equilibrium uniqueness.     

西部少数民族地区地市党报在地域文化发展中的作用分析——以《丽江日报》为例

传播与文化具有密不可分的关系,大众传媒是文化传承的良好载体。西部少数民族地区地市党报可以充分发挥其在地域文化传播与交流中的重要作用,在地域文化发展中构筑地域文化认同空间、做好地域文化的传承与传递,进而在提高地方党报综合实力的基础上增强其文化影响力。     

资源依赖理论视角下异地合作办学校区的发展与转型路径

异地合作办学在过去的40年中不断地发展与转型。从资源依赖理论的视角来看,异地合作办学校区面临校本部提供的学术等软性资源环境系统和地方政府提供的资金等硬性资源环境系统。在两个不同资源环境系统下的异地合作办学校区,面临着结构性的资源困境,主要包括经费资源不足、学术资源存量与增量有限等。因此,异地合作办学校区在资源依赖的困境下只有不断寻求转型,通过创新关系、扩大规模、突出特色、强化合作、完善治理等方式路径获取校本部和地方政府持续的资源支持,推动转型目标的实现。用资源依赖理论分析影响异地合作办学发展和转型的因素与机制,认为合作办学校区对校地双方提供的资源依赖决定了合作校区的发展与转型的轨迹。     

职业指导在促进高校毕业生就业工作中的作用

分析了职业指导的含义和目前国内外高校职业指导的现状,论述了高校职业指导的重要性,并结合地方本科院校的特点提出了对职业指导的几点思考和建议。     

Implications of urbanism for the use of local news media: effects of population concentration on types of news acquisition in Japan

The Internet, a global computer network enabling people to send and receive information anywhere in the world, also functions as a local medium of communication. This study focuses on the role of the Internet in transmitting local news and examines the effects of community population concentrations as socio-ecological environments on the use of local news media consumed online and offline. Data from 1367 respondents across 156 Japanese communities were used to analyze the relationships between type of community and type of news source. The findings suggest that people who live in highly populated communities tend more often to use the Internet to access local news, whereas those in less populated communities tend to use more traditional mass media. However, the results of this study did not show a relationship between population concentrations within communities and the acquisition of international news, nor did the social features of residents adequately explain the effects of population concentration on the acquisition of local news. These results are consistent with theoretical predictions based on network externalities, urbanism, and collective action. The findings indicate that local news consumption is embedded in local social contexts in a way that international news is not, reinforcing the importance of urbanism in the information age.     

Political Participation of Local Publics in the Unemployment Field: A Comparison of Lyon and Turin

This article focuses on political participation of local publics in the unemployment field, examining networks of collective actors in Lyon and Turin. Our main question is: Is the participation of local publics fostered under conditions of more developed governance that increases bottom-up access (formal or informal) to elites and institutions in the policy domain? Drawing upon the most recent developments in literatures on social movement theory, governance and network analysis, this article discusses the main variations in terms of political participation of local publics in Lyon and Turin. It then enquires into the main explanatory factors accounting for these variations, thus showing that the openness of governance does influence the level of political participation of local publics. The main argument is that in an open context participation is low, while in a closed (or underdeveloped) context local publics participate more, with differential access to decision-making according to their resources.