The contagion of democracy through international networks

Work on democratization typically considers the diffusion of democracy through interstate partnerships. However, such partnerships constitute complex networks that scholars have yet to fully explore as vectors for the spread of democracy. We develop a network theory of democratization which characterizes these networks as epistemic communities that influence elites’ attitudes towards favorable regime types. Our theory predicts, and our empirical strategy confirms, that direct and indirect ties in the alliance network are vectors for democratization. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that direct influence is only transmitted through the defensive alliance network and find evidence of higher-order effects.     

Research trends in nonprofit graduate studies in China: An inside perspective

This paper explores the growth of the academic study of nonprofit management and organizations in China by examining theses and dissertations written in China between 2000 and 2018. Using a keyword search, we collect and review 5,346 abstracts available in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure Thesis and Dissertation database. The number of these theses and dissertations accelerated between 2000 and 2015 and slowed thereafter. Most theses and dissertations focus on the external context of nonprofit organizations (78%) and fewer on nonprofit management per se (22%). Thematic analysis reveals several broad subjects of study including organizational development, the character of the external environment and internal operations, financial and other resource support, and organizational performance. Trends across the 19‐year study period relating to national regions of origin, discipline, and theme are also explored. The development of nonprofit studies in China in some ways resembles the growth of this field in the United States and other western countries in past decades, but with distinct Chinese historical, sociocultural, and geographical characteristics.     

锅庄石信仰、房名与藏区社会组织的变迁——以川西鱼通地区为例

国内外学术界对藏区房名的研究,多偏重于对房名具有的传统社会组织的运转和分层的功能进行讨论,或是对各地的房名进行介绍和资料收集,而对房名的文化象征意义及其源起关注不够。本文试图通过文献和在四川省康定县鱼通地区的田野调查,对于房名的文化象征意义和源起,进行初步的讨论,本文认为,房名的源起与房屋中的火塘、锅庄石有密切的关系,这实际象征了人与居住地、人与神之间的关系,而后,随着社会历史发展,房名之中也体现了房屋占有者的社会及经济地位。总之,房名与居住地、锅庄石的关系,实际是人与地盘神、土地神的关系,因而房名最先要处理的不是经济地位问题,也不是社会结构问题。经济地位或社会阶层是在人--土地神的基础上生发而来的。     

维护校园稳定共建和谐校园——论党团组织在预防大学生被害中的作用

构建和谐校园是全面建设社会主义和谐社会的重要组成部分，是落实党的十七大精神和科学发展观的必然要求，也是现代大学孜孜以求的理想。在深入学习实践科学发展观活动中，认真研究构建和谐’社会特别是结合高校实际研究和谐校园建设问题，显得十分迫切和重要。     

“It Depends on How You Define Integrated”: Neighborhood Boundaries and Racial Integration in a Baltimore Neighborhood1

There are a significant number of racially integrated neighborhoods in the United States, many of which have been stable over time. However, very little is known about the characteristics of these neighborhoods and of the residents who live in them. With data taken from a larger study of an integrated neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, this article discusses homeowners’ perceptions of their community and racial integration. Fifty semi‐structured interviews were completed with 67 homeowners to investigate their perceptions and experiences of race, class, and change in their community. This study shows that statistical racial integration and perceptions of racial integration are two different factors. Residents define true racial integration as both residential and social. As a result, homeowners reported that their neighborhood is both segregated and integrated—a type of “qualified” integration. Perceptions of racial integration are also affected by inconsistently defined neighborhood boundaries and racial clustering, block by block.     

Engaging stakeholders through social networking: How nonprofit organizations are using Facebook

Since social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, began allowing organizations to create profiles and become active members, organizations have started incorporating these strategies into their public relations programming. For-profit organizations have used these sites to help launch products and strengthen their existing brands; however, little is known about how nonprofit organizations are taking advantage of the social networking popularity. Through a content analysis of 275 nonprofit organization profiles on Facebook, this study examines how these new social networking sites are being used by the organizations to advance their organization's mission and programs. Solely having a profile will not in itself increase awareness or trigger an influx of participation. Instead careful planning and research will greatly benefit nonprofits as they attempt to develop social networking relationships with their stakeholders.     

关于农民专业合作经济组织发展问题

研究了农民专业合作经济组织发挥组织功能、中介功能、服务功能、教育功能和改革功能具有的重要意义以及在现实中存在的政府部门重视不够、规范化程度低和风险共担等问题;阐述了在农民专业合作发展中应遵循的原则,同时给出了推进其发展的对策是明确责任、完善政策和强化服务等措施。     

试论中国社团的“官办”特性——路径依赖分析

新制度经济学中的路径依赖理论认为,路径依赖的产生源于旧体制中既得利益集团的阻挠和非正式制度安排的影响,而打破"锁定"状态除了从自身寻求出路外,往往还要借助于外部效应。这一理论对于解释中国社团的官办特性具有较强的适用性。中国社团的官办特性说到底是计划体制下的一种路径依赖,倘若对造成社团官办特性的种种路径依赖因素进行有意识的制度创新,将有助于减少路径依赖的负面影响,使我国的社团更能朝着良性的轨迹发展。     

Old Structures,New Relations: How Community Development Credit Unions Define Organizational Boundaries

Studies of organizational dynamics examine the manner in which an organization's immediate environment defines the rules and requirements to which individual organizations must conform in order to receive legitimacy and support (Scott, 1992:132). In this paper we consider the question of how an organization can achieve legitimacy and support without necessarily compromising its organizational forms or practices to isomorphic pressures. We frame the question in terms of the boundaries between organizations and their environments. Where the population ecology studies show the survival value of adopting known organizational forms and practices, and neoinstitutionalism addresses the need to display compliance with accepted forms, our case study demonstrates the possibility of removing an organization or set of organizations from the familiar interaction by naming it as a subfield of the organizational field, sharing the environment, but out of the way of predefined norms and practices.