Place,power, and possibility: Remaking social work with children and youth

This article introduces the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars and activists who critically examine the nature and boundaries of social work with children and youth. Their works explore the institutional and social spaces shaping young people's lives; deconstruct discourses, policies, and practices that shape meanings and experiences of childhood; and consider challenges for social work and possibilities for transformative action. In this essay the editors address the social construction of childhood; outline a framework for analysis informed by an understanding of the cultural politics of childhood; consider the relationship between neoliberal globalization and contemporary thought and practice regarding children and youth; and introduce cutting-edge scholarship addressing place, power, and possibility and the remaking of social work with children and youth.     

Variance-penalized response-adaptive randomization with mismeasurement

We consider response-adaptive design of clinical trials under a variance-penalized criterion in the presence of mismeasurement. An explicit expression for the variance-penalized criterion with misclassified dichotomous responses is derived for response-adaptive designs and some properties are discussed. A new target proportion of treatment allocation is proposed under the criterion and related simulation results are presented.     

国际权力基础与伊拉克战争

本文考察国际权力在不同历史时期的基础及其变化,并提出,各国围绕国际权力竞争的背后是各国围绕国际权力基础的竞争,国际权力基础随着时代不断发生变迁。作为国际政治的一个重要变量,国际权力基础反映出国际政治单位之间所享有的国际权力差异。自威斯特伐利亚条约以来,国际社会见证了数次国际权力基础变化。在第二次世界大战以前,国际权力的基础是常规武器水平;冷战期间核武器成为了新的基础;冷战结束后,各国之间的竞争围绕着综合国力展开;伊拉克战争爆发以后,国际权力基础又变迁为国家独立行动能力。     

An Unten(ur)able Position : The Politics of Teaching for Women of Color in the US

The U.S. academy wants 'multiculturalism' in the classroom. But its public rhetoric of fairness, standards, and diversity falls far short of its exclusionary actions in private, particularly for women of color faculty at tenure time. Tenure evaluations, we propose, reflect a narrative of institutional power that perpetuates the academy's religiouscolonial legacy. Priest-Novitiate relations rule the academy more than a community of peers. Accordingly, women of color faculty face not just a glass ceiling when it comes to tenure and promotions. Rather, they encounter a more subtle, complex, and insidious form of resistance. It consists of a specificconfiguration of racial (white), gender (male), class (aristocratic or upwardly-mobile), and cultural (Western medieval) criteria that women of color cannot possibly satisfy. We conclude with some suggestions for transforming these social relations in the academy.     

Foucault and the politics of critical management studies

This paper explores the different ways in which we read Foucault in management and organisation studies but, more particularly, some of the features of his project that we seem often to exclude. In the context of a growing interest in more ‘engaged’ forms of scholarly practice among management academics, we argue that further consideration of Foucault might have something more to offer. Setting the main arguments in context, we suggest an outline of the dominant ways in which we read Foucault: the identities we assign to him. Hence we know Foucault primarily as a social theorist, genealogist, neo‐Weberian, and postmodernist. We then consider some of the engaged aspects of his project, focusing on his emergence as an activist intellectual in the 1970s. Possible implications for critical management scholars are then considered.     

Divergences and duality for estimation and test under moment condition models

We introduce estimation and test procedures through divergence minimization for models satisfying linear constraints with unknown parameter. These procedures extend the empirical likelihood (EL) method and share common features with generalized empirical likelihood approach. We treat the problems of existence and characterization of the divergence projections of probability distributions on sets of signed finite measures. We give a precise characterization of duality, for the proposed class of estimates and test statistics, which is used to derive their limiting distributions (including the EL estimate and the EL ratio statistic) both under the null hypotheses and under alternatives or misspecification. An approximation to the power function is deduced as well as the sample size which ensures a desired power for a given alternative.     

Exact tests and confidence regions in nonlinear regression

Nonlinear regression models with spherically symmetric error vectors and a single nonlinear parameter are considered. On the basis of a new geometric approach, exact one- and two-sided tests and confidence regions for the nonlinear parameter are derived in the cases of known and unknown error variances. A geometric measure representation formula is used to determine the power functions of the tests if the error variance is known and to derive different lower bounds for the power function of a one-sided test in the case of an unknown error variance. The latter can be done quite effectively by constructing and measuring several balls inside the critical region. A numerical study compares the results for different density generating functions of the error distribution.     

扩散与聚合：基督教在我国朝鲜族中的发展历程

基督教传入我国朝鲜族聚居地区已近150年，期间经历了两个不同的发展阶段。基督教在朝鲜族社会早期形成了一种以传教士为中心的小群体扩散性传播发展，部分朝鲜族民众与传教士的日常生活交往形成了对外来宗教的尝试性体验、简单仪式参与及所属基督徒群体自身的身份认同。此后随着众多小群体的发展，更多政治权力涉入逐渐发展起来的基督教教会组织中，基督教在朝鲜族地方性社会进入了以教会组织为依托的聚合性发展阶段。此阶段伴随政治权力的涉入，先后经历了委身发展及非自觉发展阶段到至今已显现出理性化信仰的发展趋势。     

灾难的仪式意义与历史记忆

灾难的仪式化建构是权力和其他政治势力为其合法性立言和进行社会动员的有效手段。所以,灾难发生的地点以及灾难发生之前与之后的时间可以被视为一个场域,它不仅为各种政治与非政治势力与组织提供特定的社会与政治的话语空间,而且还可以成为政治资源为不同势力所利用。在这个空间里,权力与传媒之间的共谋将直接对日后有关灾难的记忆产生影响。呈现在这种共谋语境中的历史记忆,难以全面、如实地反映客观真实的历史瞬间。     

中国行政诉讼制度的发端——以清末筹备设立行政诉讼审判机构为中心

中国行政诉讼制度发端于清末法制改革中筹备设立行政诉讼审判机构的过程。通过制定《行政裁判院官制草案》和拟定设立行政审判院,清政府遵循了一条以主要参照日本等大陆法系二元司法体制为模式,以制定行政诉讼审判机构组织法为着手点的制度创设路径。尽管这些尝试终因清朝灭亡而未能实现,却对中国行政诉讼制度的发展产生重大影响。