The organizational shaping of collective identity: The case of lesbian and gay film festivals in New York

Using information gathered during fieldwork on New York lesbian and gay film festival organizations, this paper argues that scholarship on identity has not paid sufficient attention to the organizational mediation of collective identity. The shape of collective identity—how internal instabilities and diversities are accommodated, in this case—depends not only on the emergent characteristics of the “collective,” but also on the resolution of challenges particular to organizational fields. Two very differently conceived lesbian and gay festival organizations, sites at which decision making about collective identity is ongoing and self-conscious, are examined. The analysis traces how each responds to two related tasks: maintaining community legitimacy, which requires racial diversification, and surviving within an altered institutional environment. Rather than imposition from “above” or construction from “below,” the adaptive responses by organizations (to changes in both community expectations and the resource environment) transform the collective identity formulations reaching public visibility. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Colloquium Series of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, 1995, and at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, 1995.     

Estimation of noncentrality parameters

We propose some estimators of noncentrality parameters which improve upon usual unbiased estimators under quadratic loss. The distributions we consider are the noncentral chi-square and the noncentral F. However, we give more general results for the family of elliptically contoured distributions and propose a robust dominating estimator.     

论乡村政治文明建设的两个基本维度--制度的完善与意识的培养

肇始于八十年代初村民自治兴起的我国乡村政治文明建设,至今已经历了二十多年的风雨历程。以村民自治为主要内容的乡村政治文明建设在法律化、制度化、规范化方面都取得了显著进步,但同时也存在着一些比较突出的问题和矛盾,其根本原因就在于制度的缺憾与村民民主意识的淡漠。因此,必须从完善乡村政治制度和提高村民的民主意识入手,推动乡村政治文明建设的健康发展。     

商标权保护与平行进口问题研究

文章从国际货物贸易中的专利平行进口问题的含义,重点在于对“权利穷竭”原则与“地域性”原则两种理论依据进行相关内容分析。通过分析世界各国对待商标平行进口的态度,对当前中国知识产权领域商标平行进口立法方向做出自己的判断。     

区域制度变迁和中部地区经济发展的战略适应

我国区域制度变迁对中部地区的发展产生了深远影响。文章分析了区域经济新格局下中部地区的区域竞争环境，依据演化理论提出了环境变迁后中部地区区域发展的战略适应观点以及战略适应的现实路径，认为中部地区的战略适应路径在于区域制度创新和经济集聚战略，并就区域制度创新和经济集聚战略实施中的具体问题进行了探讨。     

"民官比"不是影响政治体制改革的重要因素

在政治体制改革中,公务员或国家干部人数的多少并不是一个关键因素,重要的是必须把政府的社会定位(包括角色、权力和责任)划分清楚。与世界各国相比较,我国197.69∶1(或116.27∶1)的“民官比”并不高,因此,今后的政治体制改革不需要再把精力集中在“精简”上,而应按邓小平的部署,首先把党政分开和权力下放的工作做好。毕竟“小政府”是指“政府权力受限制”,而非“人数更少”;“大社会”是指“社会权利更广泛”,而非“人数更多”。     

论华中抗日根据地基层政权的民主选举—以乡选为中心的考察

为从根本上改造基层政权,中国共产党领导下的华中抗日根据地广泛开展了一场轰轰烈烈的民主选举运动。根据地颁布了一系列法令、条例,使选举规范化;人民群众在实践中也充分发挥智慧创造了适合自己的选举方式。选举体现了广泛性、平等性、真实性的特点。这一运动使基层政权性质彻底改变,为争取抗战乃至整个新民主主义革命的胜利提供了重要保证。     

以制度创新遏制腐败

阐述了中国社会转型时期腐败的特点、危害及其根源,指出了腐败蔓延的根源是政治体制、经济体制以及法律制度方面的问题。其中政治体制方面的问题具体体现为党内监督制度不完善,领导干部选拔任用制度的缺陷,领导干部决策失误法律责任追究制度缺失。经济体制方面的问题体现为市场经济制度不规范,政府过度干预经济,非统一的财政制度的弊端等。法律制度方面的问题表现为国家反腐败的基本法律和法规体系不完善。分析了制度创新的必要性;提出了制度创新的基本方向为政治体制改革,尽快建立规范的社会主义市场经济制度与公共财政制度,建立国家反腐败的基本法律和法规体系。     

Social identities and political cleavages: the role of political context

Summary. Using a novel method, the paper investigates the influence of social group identities on attitudes and on voting in a variety of political contexts. Examining the major regions of Britain, Canada and the USA, we find considerable national and regional diversity in the nature of social cleavages. For example, social class and race had widely different effects across societies, but within societies their effects on attitudes and on voting were very similar. However, despite that, age and religion had a similar effect on attitudes across societies; the effects on voting varied considerably. The significant within-country differences underline the importance of using region, rather than country, as the unit of analysis. More importantly, these results highlight the role of political context, especially competing cleavages and the structure of party competition, in the establishment of politically relevant social cleavages.     

大中城市城郊失地农民的现状调查分析（I）

随着中国城市化进程的加快，在社会主体层面上直接表现为农民身份向市民身份的嬗变和转型。基于此背景，结合对某地区失地农民的120份调查问卷分析，从失地农民主体角度探讨他们对失地农民这一强制性身份的认同程度及其影响因素。研究发现，健全的社会保障体系、稳定工作和收入、城市生活方式及思想观念等3个因素最终影响着失地农民的身份认同。其中健全的社会保障体系、稳定工作和收入、城市生活方式及思想观念对失地农民身份认同起着不可替代的作用，且由大到小影响着失地农民的身份认同。