21世纪的人文地理学

阐述了人文地理学的发展现状和面临的形势,对21世纪的人文地理学进行了展望。指出21世纪的人文地理学有14个显著特征,从而勾画了21世纪人文地理学的新框架。     

21世纪初国外希腊神话研究印象

进入21世纪,希腊神话研究在西方学界再起热潮,大量的研究专著和论文出现,各种理论和方法相继被用到古老的神话文本的解读和研究之中。从不同的理论和方法来审视希腊古典神话研究,大致有以下几种趋势:主题学研究、人类学或者宗教人类学研究、哲学研究、借助考古学的考据派研究和谱系学研究。     

21世纪中国成人高等教育发展探索

我国的高等教育,在新旧世纪交替之际的短短几年内,就成功地实现了大众化的历史性跨越发展,成人高等教育扮演着相当重要的角色。展望21世纪,成人高等教育依然是充分实现我国高等教育大众化的主要途径、特别是实现终身发展战略的最重要途径、更能直接服务于经济建设;我国的成人高等教育更需要突出服务意识、加快国际化进程、发挥网络教学优势;以全面实现成人高等教育的现代化,为我国高等教育从大众化向普及化方向的迈进做出新贡献。     

理想化的现代女性--《永别了,武器》中凯瑟琳的形象

许多学者喜欢从海明威本人的传奇经历和他作品中的众多"硬汉"形象入手对其作品进行品评,甚至认为海明威是一位不尊重女性的作家,这实际上是对这位享有世界声誉的作家的误解.从女性主义理论的视角,对其<永剐了,武器>中的凯瑟琳的形象进行分析,提出这一人物是海明威笔下的现代的被理想化的现代女人.从而认为海明威是一位具有强烈女性意识的作家,他的作品真实而形象地记录了那个时代女性的精神状态和生存状态.     

一部精心整理的民国史专题资料集——《“中日七十一条”交涉史料全编（1915一1923）》评介

揭示黄纪莲<中日"二十一条"交涉史料全编( 1915- 1923)>的特色及价值在于:内容全面,充分反映中日"二十一条"交涉过程的全貌;取材广泛,利用价值高;编辑得当,使用方便.指出该书为近年来民国史专题资料集中不可多得的精品.     

"信访权"之宪法定位

我国宪法并无信访权的规定,但一般认为,信访制度的宪法依据是宪法第41条,是公民宪法赋予的建议权、申诉权的具体体现。然而从实践和宪法权利理论出发,有必要对信访权加以分解,分为政治性权利和非政治性权利,从代议机构监督和制衡行政权的高度加强信访制度建设,推进我国宪政制度的完善。     

面向21世纪“两课“教学总体研究

2 1世纪 ,复杂多变的国际国内形势 ,给“两课”教学带来前所未有的挑战。鉴于此 ,面向新世纪的“两课”教学总体研究势在必行。研究范围包括深化“两课”教学内容、完善课程体系、建全学科体系、改革教学方法、加强师资队伍建设等多个方面     

REPATRIATION OF DEBT IN THE EURO CRISIS

With the beginning of the Euro Crisis, the long‐standing trend of European financial integration reversed. Investors unwound cross‐border positions of debt obligations and increased holdings of locally issued debt. In other words, debt obligations were repatriated. We use data on bank portfolios to document three new empirical regularities of the financial disintegration: (i) repatriation affected mainly debt of crisis countries; (ii) repatriation affected mainly public debt; (iii) the public debt of crisis countries that was not repatriated was reallocated to large and politically influential countries within the Euro area. We read these results in light of standard theories of cross‐border portfolio allocation and argue that the sum of these patterns constitutes evidence for the secondary market theory of public debt.     

Firm internationalization and performance: Evidence for designing policies

The debate on the relationship between internationalization and performance is still open and is a hot topic for policymakers, but they ignore the impacts for most of the firms supported. The paper is based on a large database of seven years that considers quantitative-qualitative and control variables. To reduce industry and country heterogeneity we focused on the Italian automotive supply chain. We tested 5 modes of internationalization on firms’ profitability so to support the design of policies. Our results are partially in contrast with literature; therefore we identify specific environments where policies, namely for exporting, could be more effective.     

Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators

Using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (2006-PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the determinants and the effect of being a victim of school bullying on educational achievement for Italian students enrolled at the fourth and eighth grade levels. Firstly, we apply an OLS estimator controlling for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of confounding factors, we use propensity score matching techniques. Our empirical findings based on average treatment effects suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth and the eighth grade level. Importantly, the adverse effect of bullying on educational achievement is larger at age 13 than at age 9. Hence, school violence seems to constitute a relevant factor in explaining student performance. Our findings suggest some possible interventions that Italian policy makers should adopt to prevent or reduce bullying behaviors.