The effects of social and political openness on the welfare state in 18 OECD countries

Studies examining the relationship between globalisation and the welfare state tend to focus on the effects of economic dimensions of globalisation, the extent to which a country is part of the world market. Globalisation also has social and political dimensions and the effects of these on welfare states – in terms of social security transfers and generosity – are studied in this article. Data from the KOF Index of Globalisation , the OECD Historical Statistics and the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset are used to analyse the effects of social and political openness on the welfare states of 18 countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development between 1970 and 2000. The analyses show that social security transfers and generosity have increased less in countries with the highest increase in social openness and that the welfare state is not affected by political openness.     

从两个“历史决议”看中国共产党政治民主的发展

对两个“历史决议”的研究,一直是学术界关注的焦点。文章试图从政治学的视角,对两个“历史决议”的文本进行一个全新的解读,通过对两个“历史决议”形成过程和内容的比较,勾勒出中国共产党政治民主的发展历程,揭示出政治民主作为一个特定历史概念所表现出来的民主基本原则的共性与不同时期、不同社会、不同制度下的个性特征。     

Gay Affirmative Practice: A Model for Social Work Practice with Gay,Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth

Gay affirmative practice has recently been introduced into the social work literature as a culturally sensitive model for working with gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) adults, however, this model has rarely been applied to practice with GLB youth. In this article, the authors review the literature to present the main tenets of gay affirmative practice, outline the challenges that GLB youth face, and delineate the environmental and individual strengths that can be enhanced to promote well-being. The authors then apply the gay affirmative practice model to GLB youth, offering concrete information about the specific knowledge, attitudes, and skills that social workers should acquire to better serve the unique, yet diverse, needs of GLB youth.     

Unmanaging public relations: Reclaiming complex practice in pursuit of global consent

Globalisation raises numerous problems for contemporary public relations theory. In a world where the geographic reach of organisations routinely spans cultures and nation states and where issues of culture, economics and politics are inseparably intertwined, the discipline of public relations has established a distance from the immediacy of the marketplace, failed to fully engage with discussions of culture. By taking a relentlessly managerialist approach, theorists have also failed to recognise the true complexity of public relations practice and this has marginalised aspects of practice that, though nebulous and intangible, are none the less real. This paper argues that attention needs to shift towards the complexities of practice, in order to recapture and theorise a distinctive occupational field with the aim of better understanding the relationship between universal humanising principles, on the one hand, and the purposive demands of capital, on the other; the attempt to theorise how public relations makes profitable sense in society. The paper was prompted by the author's reflections on auto-ethnographic research into the public relations field, part of an ongoing research project.     

异化及其扬弃——当前思想政治教育面临的困境与专业社会工作的启示

思想政治教育的异化使教育已经不是一种心力合一的过程,受教育者已经不能从中学到东西.产生这种异化的原因是:思想政治教育本质的改变,社会价值与个人价值相分离,单向强制灌输,教育内容上的滞后.要走出思想政治教育的困境,从专业社会工作的视角出发,对价值取向、育人关系、育人手段、工作者角色等几方面进行思考.     

认知心理学发展对思想政治教育的启示

皮亚杰的认知发展理论、现代信息加工学派的认知心理研究与社会认知心理研究试图揭示人类认知的心理规律。思想政治教育应借鉴认知心理学的研究成果,深入研究人类认知发展阶段和过程,并按照认知发展阶段和过程来安排思想政治教育,还应帮助人们优化认知图式,以提高思想政治教育的实效性。     

邓小平的政治观与当代中国政治转型

邓小平是我国改革开放的总设计师,他对社会主义政治内涵的新诠释和政治与经济关系的阐述以及提出的处理政治与经济关系的基本方略,为人们认识社会主义政治的科学内涵,从理论和实践上推动当代中国政治转型,为当代中国政治文明建设奠定了基础。     

在实践中考察社会主义

实践是社会生活的本质,是人类生存和发展的根本条件。在实践中正确认识和理解、继承和发展科学社会主义,就是要强调社会主义实践的阶段性、过程性和层次性,强调要用发展着的马克思主义指导新的实践,与时俱进,正确处理社会主义本质与社会主义实践之间的辨证关系。     

我国社会主义政治文明建设的几个着重点

建设中国特色的社会主义政治文明,是我国社会主义现代化建设的重要目标和任务。在进行我国社会主义政治文明建设时,应坚持党的领导,坚持人民当家作主和依法治国相统一的原则;发展民主政治,在人民参与社会主义政治文明建设中树立新思维;建立与具体政治行为相结合的政绩考核机制。     

政治文明建设探讨

政治文明是人类文明中的重要组成部分 ,没有政治文明就没有人类文明。政治文明为物质文明和精神文明指明方向和提供保障。我们的目标是建立有中国特色社会主义的政治文明。