National Culture on the Cross-National Variation of Homicide: An Empirical Application of the Inglehart–Welzel Cultural Map

Although there has been a growing literature on the effects of culture on the cross-national variation of homicide, this literature remains limited in the operationalization of national culture as well as in the modeling of the cultural effects. Adopting a multidimensional measure of national culture developed in the World Values Survey, this study examines the effects of various aspects of national culture, as well as their interaction, on the cross-national variation of homicide. The findings of this study provide evidence for the effect of national culture on homicide variation across countries while painting a more complex picture about the potential mechanisms of these effects.     

‘Some have ideologies,we have values’: the relationship between organizational values and commitment in a political party

ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to advance the study of organizational values by analyzing the role of values in a Danish political party called The Alternative, a party claiming to be guided by values rather than ideology. Inspired by recent work in organizational psychology, I group The Alternative’s values into two categories: vision values and humanity values. Through an empirical investigation, I show how the vision values encourage members to take initiative in realizing their own political ideas, while the humanity values encourage them to remain morally inclusive towards people with different views. The combination of vision and humanity values allows The Alternative to maintain commitment from members who might otherwise feel marginalized by the emergence of dominant ideas within the party. The paper’s contribution consists in highlighting the importance of using qualitative methods to study how values influence commitment and to expose the political dimension of this relationship.     

Measuring and framing support for universal basic income

We execute an original survey experiment to examine the extent and determinants of support for a nascent policy issue, universal basic income (UBI), in the American public. We explore the effects of how UBI is framed (either in the context of values or the context of policy), finding three key results. First, UBI is primarily a Democratic and liberal policy. Second, negative arguments against UBI move support for UBI more than positive arguments. Third, and surprisingly, respondents are equally affected by both policy-driven and value-driven arguments about UBI. In conclusion, an increase in messaging about UBI is likely to widen existing partisan differences in UBI support. These differences are unlikely to be won over by policy or values arguments.     

The Mediated Amplification of a Crisis: Communicating the A/H1N1 Pandemic in Press Releases and Press Coverage in Europe

In the aftermath of the A/H1N1 pandemic, health authorities were criticized for failures in crisis communication efforts, and the media were accused of amplifying the pandemic. Considering these criticisms, A/H1N1 provides a suitable case for examining risk amplification processes that may occur in the transfer of information from press releases to print news media during a health crisis. We integrated the social amplification of risk framework with theories of news decisions (news values, framing) in an attempt to contribute to existing research both theoretically and empirically. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of press releases disseminated by health and governmental authorities, as well as the quality and tabloid press in 10 European countries between March 2009 and March 2011. Altogether 243 press releases, 1,243 quality press articles, and 834 tabloid press articles were coded. Consistent with research on news values and framing the results suggest that quality and tabloid papers alike amplified A/H1N1 risks by emphasizing conflict and damage, presenting information in a more dramatized way, and using risk‐amplifying frames to a greater extent and risk‐attenuating frames to a lesser extent than press releases. To some extent, the quality and tabloid press differed in how risk information was presented. While tabloid press articles seemed to follow the leading quality press with regards to content and framing of health crisis coverage, they exhibited a stronger emphasis on drama and emotion in the way they presented information.     

社会主义核心价值观视角下高校“精神扶贫”路径探析

通过论述社会主义核心价值观视角下高校“精神扶贫”的内涵，阐明了二者间的契合性及用社会主义核心价值观指导高校精神扶贫工作的必要性，探索了社会主义核心价值观对“精神扶贫”工作顶层设计的意义，并用社会主义核心价值观指引“文化扶贫”“心理调适”“技能培训”等路径，旨在进一步提升高校“精神扶贫”的实效性。     

生态学马克思主义对生态价值观的重构

西方“深绿”思潮把人类中心主义价值观看作是当代生态危机的根源,强调只有破除人类中心主义价值观,确立以“自然价值论”和“自然权利论”为主要内容的生态中心主义价值观,才能解决生态危机。西方“浅绿”思潮在为人类中心主义价值观作辩护的同时,对近代强式人类中心主义价值观做了必要的修正,最终形成以“开明的人类中心主义”和“弱式人类中心主义”为主要内容的现代人类中心主义价值观。西方“红绿”思潮中的有机马克思主义则批判现代性价值体系本质上是一种漠视人类之外的存在物的价值和利益的人类中心主义,由此必然导致人类与自然关系的扭曲和生态危机,因此应当以承认自然存在物的内在价值为前提,展开共同体价值观培育的有机教育。“红绿”思潮中的生态学马克思主义则是在批判“深绿”和“浅绿”思潮所主张的生态价值观的基础上,重建了“人类中心主义价值观”和“生态中心主义价值观”,但他们与“深绿”、“浅绿”思潮的本质区别在于他们重建的两种价值观始终是与对资本主义制度和生产方式的批判联系在一起的。     

中华传统核心价值观的历史变迁与传承

中华传统核心价值观内涵丰富、自成系统,具有强大的吸附力,其在社会转型的过程中不断自我更新与成长.以儒家思想为代表的传统文化体系其强大之处在于,它能构建出既深不可测的神圣信仰又接地气的操作手册,能够真正代表中华民族的精神生活、能够表现出士子的哲学思想并以此区别于他族别国的思想与价值特质.中华传统核心价值观与社会主义核心价值观是继承和创新的关系.     

实施可持续发展战略与科教兴国

可持续发展与科教兴国是我国现代化建设的两个重大战略。实施可持续发展战略必须依靠科技进步和劳动者素质的提高。科技是关键,教育是基础,通过实施科教兴国战略,一是为实施可持续发展战略提供重要条件和基础;二是为实施可持续发展战略提供持续动力;三是为实施可持续发展战略提供价值观支持     

Beyond Identity: Queer Values and Community

This essay traces the movement within the LGBT community from relying on identity politics to considering a politics of value as a political and community-forming strategy. In the process, the author uses the work of Michel Foucault to think through how the articulation of shared values might open up personal, communal, and political possibilities otherwise delimited when LGBT people think of themselves within the confines of separate, and often separating, identity categories.