Does trust increase willingness to pay higher taxes to help the needy?

The article studies the causal effect of trust on the willingness to pay higher taxes to help the needy in a sample of 29 countries of Eastern and Southern Europe, and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. It is hypothesized that interpersonal trust leads to a greater willingness to pay taxes to help the needy since (i) trust increases the likelihood of helping strangers; (ii) trust fosters solidarity and cooperation when working to solve common problems in society; and (iii) trust reduces suspicion with respect to the perceived misuse of redistributed money. Three key findings are that the more people trust each other, the more they are ready to support the welfare state; the effect of trust on welfare state support holds even in a contextual environment characterized by rather lower levels of trust and relatively underdeveloped systems of redistribution; and higher individual‐level trust fosters tax morale and helps deter tax evasion.     

帝国之梦的幻灭历程——评析英国战后初期的外交政策

第二次世界大城改变了世界的格局,传统的以欧洲为中心的国际关系格局己被美苏两极格局所取代。战争所引起的新势态要求英国的外交政策做出适当的调整。但由于外交政策的连续性,英国政府在战后初期仍竭力维持自己"大英帝国"的地位,这就使得其在处理国际事务时常常感到力不从心。从"三环外交"方针、英国对欧政策和苏伊士危机这三个方面对英国战后初期的外交政策进行评析进而阐述英国帝国之梦的幻灭历程。     

英美法上的要物合同机制及其启示

关于我国民法典中要物合同的存废,英美法上的要物合同机制可带来不少启示。英美法的经验所传递的信息是,要物合同被确立下来依赖于其无偿的人际关系的产生背景,正是在此基础上,它适用＂没有给就没有还＂的法律逻辑。它被保留下来,很大程度上是法律传统使然。进一步分析,还可以补充上法律目的与法律伦理等方面的理由。在对待要物合同的问题上,建议以前述理由为据,保留无偿的传统要物合同,将有偿要物合同予以诺成化改造。     

英国工党的政策制定新体制及对我国的启示

政策制定能力是党的执政能力的一个重要内容。当今的中国面临两个非常值得关注的问题:一是执政党如何更民主地设定政策议程，二是执政党如何更科学地制定政策。英国长期执政的工党的政策制定体制改革经验具有一定的借鉴价值。在重点介绍英国工党全国政策论坛、政策委员会、政策循环的设立背景及其作用的基础上，建议完善我国执政党政策制定体制:为公众意见纳入执政党政策议程提供制度化的渠道；提高政策酝酿阶段的透明性，鼓励适度公开的政策讨论；设立新型的政策分析机构。     

印度书写：殖民文学与后殖民文学的历史关联

殖民文学与后殖民文学在书写东方印度主题方面，存在一些复杂微妙的历史联系，存在着历时性和共时性的“东方”话语，这与一些英国作家和印裔英国作家的东方主义心态有关。     

Place making,grassroots organizing,and rural protest: A case study of Anahim Lake,British Columbia

Contemporary rural social movements bring diverse interest groups and stakeholders together at the local scale in the pursuit of common visions and goals, often against the backdrop of an external threat. The challenge for a movement's leaders is to negotiate and design a rural agenda that resonates with this complex constituency. One way to approach this problem is to construct and politicize a local sense of place as a means of rallying insiders against outside forces and pressures. This article explores the place-making activities of rural leaders operating within a complex social setting through an analysis of a grassroots social movement in Anahim Lake, British Columbia. The study uses the concept of the “place frame” to explore how Anahim's activists created a local discursive framework that enabled them to bridge dissimilar environmental values and practices within the community. The removal of external pressures following protest, however, saw the dissolution of this alignment. In documenting this process, the article contributes to a fuller understanding of the significance of place in grassroots protest and activism.     

浅议英国政治文化的形成发展与本质特点——保守主义与激进主义的融合

独特的英国发展模式孕育出特有的政治文化。通过对英国政治文化的形成与发展过程进行深入分析,可以发现其特点是二元主义的和谐变奏,本质是一种保守主义与激进主义、科学理性与宗教哲学、贵族精神与公民精神相矛盾、相融合的产物。因此,英国政治文化与我们熟悉的斗争哲学、极端作风形成强烈反差,给我们一些有益的启示。     

经验派美学"审美无利害"思想与审美现代性

18世纪英国的经验派美学家最早从主体自身出发提出审美不涉及利害的思想。这一思想最早由夏夫兹博里提出,哈奇生、艾迪生、休谟、伯克等人继承了审美无关利害的思想。在英国经验派美学的影响下,康德将"审美无利害"确立为一种美学原则。英国经验派美学提出的"审美无利害",体现了审美现代性的分化性特征。英国经验派美学家以此改变了单纯以德国理性派来研究美学的现代起源的观点,其地位和作用由此得到突显。     

Chinese,Japanese or ‘Oriental’?: Vietnamese-passing in ‘super-diverse’ London

The young British-born Vietnamese are a relatively invisible group in ‘super-diverse’ London who are often misidentified in their everyday encounters. Eluding more straightforward processes of ethnic or racial assignment, the young Vietnamese ‘pass’ in various different ways as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai or ‘Oriental’. Drawing upon primary interview data and participant observation, this article traces ‘passive’ and ‘deliberate’ forms of passing to highlight how intersecting processes of class, gender and place enable/engender different kinds of passing. It is argued that Vietnamese-passing challenges more ‘celebratory’ readings of (super-) diversity by concealing (and depoliticising) difference and erasing Vietnamese voices rather than allowing for their proliferation. It is suggested that practices of passing may become more common in super-diverse societies, as markers of visible difference become increasingly complex and less determinable, especially among newer, non-colonial migrant groups who are more ambiguously positioned within existing identity regimes.     

英国马克思主义研究的新趋势

汪行福通过对英国马克思主义发展趋势的观察表明,在当代一切重大问题上,马克思主义从未缺场,它仍然是我们这个时代确立进步和解放坐标的思想基础。王金林认为,近期美国马克思主义研究呈现出一个值得关注的新动向:一方面,一些理论家坚持把阶级分析方法贯彻到各自的研究领域当中,从而彰显出马克思主义阶级立场对于把握当代社会现实的重要性;另一方面,一些理论家则从新社会运动与激进理论语境出发解构阶级立场,从而试图在一种新的基础上重构马克思主义的批判性。王凤才认为,德国马克思主义研究呈现出四个特点:一是以马克思主义的"反思.批判.创新"为主题;二是跨学科、多层面、整体地研究马克思主义;三是以广义理解的马克思主义为标尺强烈关注现实问题;四是缺乏系统的马克思主义理论和统一的马克思主义观念。吴猛认为,法国马克思主义的研究主要在五个方面涌现出了一批值得注意的研究成果,即在文本的重新解读中探求马克思主义的当代意义、异化理论及其现实意义、新自由主义批判、马克思主义与当代资本主义现实、当代资本主义的前途与共产主义。