Sense of School Membership and Associated Academic and Psychological Outcomes in Post-Institutionalized Adopted High School Students

Research highlights lasting cognitive and academic challenges in youth internationally adopted from institutional care. However, there is a lack of research examining internationally adopted students' sense of membership at school and associated academic and psychological outcomes. The current study measured sense of school membership and academic and psychological outcomes in post-institutionalized internationally adopted high school students (n = 29) compared to adolescents internationally adopted from foster care (n = 28) and non-adopted adolescents (n = 32). Post-institutionalized males had a lower sense of school membership than males adopted from foster care or non-adopted males. Group differences in school membership were mediated by academic achievement and psychological well-being.     

论我国当前加强和改善社会组织建设的关键环节

社会组织的发展及其功能的充分发挥对于我国社会主义和谐社会建设具有重要作用,应大力促进社会组织的发展。但我国社会组织发展还存在很多不足和问题,主要问题一方面是其内部资源能力不足,另一方面是其管理和监督机制不完善。为了促进社会组织的发展,应进一步厘清对社会组织的认识,转变对社会组织态度,并抓住重点大力推动社会组织的建设与发展。为此,从四个方面讨论了当前大力发展社会组织的意义,提出了应该从四个方面进一步转变对发展社会组织的态度和观念,在此基础上提出并论证了当前我国应如何在体制机制建设、能力建设和管理体系建设三个重要方面加强和改善社会组织建设。     

天津科技服务业发展研究——产业协同和制度谐振的视角

在界定科技服务业内涵的基础上,提出了科技服务业发展动因的理论框架,认为科技服务业与其他高技术行业的产业协同和科技服务业与制度的谐振是科技服务业发展的主要动因。运用统计数据分析了天津市科技服务业的发展历程和现状,对比了天津、深圳、北京和上海的科技服务业发展。分析了天津高新技术产业和制度环境对科技服务业发展的影响,以及这两方面动因与其他城市的差别。天津科技服务业发展与其他城市相比还有差距,主因在于高新技术产业发展和制度环境滞后,未来的发展需要从借力金融创新和滨海新区建设、加大政策倾斜和投入、推进市场化改革等方向入手。     

日本护理保险的制度效应分析

面对人口老龄化程度的不断加深以及由此带来的社会保障制度困境,日本政府以建立护理保险制度为突破口,拉开了社会保障基础体制改革的序幕。经过8年的制度运作,日本护理保险的制度效应得失并存,一方面在一定程度上实现了老年护理服务的"由国家到地方"、"由官到民"和"由家庭到社会"的转型,初步达到了制度设计之初的目标;另一方面也带来公平性、地方财政困难和制度整合缺失等问题,对护理保险制度的可持续性带来挑战。     

制度变迁过程的历史沉淀成本效应分析

在新古典完全竞争市场理论——历史沉淀成本决策无关性的假设前提背景下,从未来不确定性、信息不完全和财务预算约束等角度考察历史沉淀成本对制度变迁过程的影响,为制度变迁过程确立一个新的分析视角,从而弥补了原有研究的不足。在现实经济生活中,市场不完全是常态,有限理性、交易成本、信息不完全和环境不确定性等因素普遍存在,历史沉淀成本很容易发挥作用,从而表明:未来越不确定,信息越不完全,资源越稀缺,导致财务预算越硬,历史沉淀成本效应越大,制度变迁过程越困难;反之越容易。由此可发现,在放松完全竞争市场的假设前提条件下,当事人的决策不可能不受到历史沉淀成本的影响。因此,只有当事人对历史沉淀成本的约束条件作出正确的理性反应,才能使其决策更加贴近真实世界,这对于全面认识制度变迁过程具有重要的理论创新意义和现实指导价值。     

制度竞争:从比较优势到竞争优势

现代经济学相关理论的一个暗含前提是把国际竞争的主体设为企业 ,对一个国家竞争优势的分析强调微观的物质技术效率层面。本文则在此基础上进一步论证一国政府作为独立的国际竞争主体 ,在国际竞争中获得的宏观层次的制度优势是微观层次竞争优势的前提。国际竞争包含以政府为主体的宏观层次的制度竞争和以企业为主体的微观层次的物质技术效率竞争两个方面的内容。其中 ,国际制度竞争在三个维度上进行 ,竞争绩效最终表现为三种制度优势的构建。在这种理论框架下 ,论文最后考察了中国的制度竞争态势     

略论汉代古文经学的制度构想与文论视野

在古文经学家推崇的各类经传中,《周礼》与《左传》集中表达了合乎礼治原则的理想政教制度的构想, 古文经学的文论叙述也便于其中得以安置,并获得具体规定。《周礼》的意义偏重于对文学的制度性安置,核心在 于"乐"的政教功能;《左传》的意义则偏重于文法的具体规定,其实质即如何在书写中寄寓王道理想。     

CEPA的制度经济学分析

如果说“一国两制”解决了祖国统一的大问题,那么CEPA则是试图解决“两制”情况下香港、澳门与祖国内地如何进行市场经济的问题。CEPA作为一种获得潜在利益的制度安排,无论对港澳还是内地,都是一种“双赢”的制度安排,它表现出社会总福利增加的制度效应。同时,CEPA作为一种制度变迁,其实施的主体是政府,但不确定性和政府及其官员在认知上的缺欠,也会加大制度变迁的成本。     

(Re) Shaping Social Work: An Australian Case Study

Contemporary policy development via various nationally contingentprocesses of welfare reform poses significant challenges tosocial work. This paper explores the initial impact on one groupof generalist social workers in working in the Australian incomesupport agency—Centrelink. Positioning welfare reformwithin a theoretical framework of institutional change, theauthors suggest that the associated policy developments havethe capacity to seriously destabilize social work, particularlyin that they promote values and rationalities at odds with thoseassumed by the profession. These assumptions are explored throughexploratory empirical engagement with the Centrelink socialworkers, the results of which suggest that all social workersin those national contexts experiencing the same policy orientationhave significant reason to be concerned.     

Responsive Government: The Diversity and Institutional Performance of Online Political Deliberation Systems

Along with innovation in ICT technology and the spread of the internet, the online network, through its “technological empowerment” of citizens and governments, has driven a series of institutional changes designed to promote government responsiveness. The global spread of online political deliberation is indeed an achievement of the internet-driven construction of responsive government. In recent years, the Chinese government has vigorously promoted online political deliberation, established virtual platforms to build bridges between netizens and public power, brought internet activism into institutional channels, and implemented political absorption and online consultation. Under the influence of policy initiatives and local innovations, China has created diversified response systems that strengthen the institutionalization of online political deliberation and thereby enable this system to play an active role in improving government capacity and regulating the relationship between the state and society. At present, China has seven types of online response: the Communist Party Committee-led mode, the mixed mode, the government-led mode and the modes led by the departments in charge of absorption, business, supervision departments, and petitioning. Empirical studies show that the diversity and degree of institutionalization of online political deliberation significantly affect institutional performance and that political authority and professionalism are important features that enable the different response systems to influence institutional performance. In short, the endogenous elements of the response system—level of institutionalization and institutional diversity—are key factors in institutional performance.