Public sector delivery of waste management services: cases from the Indian Sub-Continent

This paper discusses the role of public sector institutions in the delivery of urban services, with a particular focus on waste management in the Indian Sub-Continent. Public sector institutions are the major stakeholders in the delivery of urban sevices. They hold the major responsibilities, funds and employ a large number of staff. The public sector institutions are also exposed to political influence and the institutional changes are often politically or donors driven. However, since new institutions such as non-government organisations and private sector are taking important roles in the actual delivery of services, there is a greater need to understand the existing linkages to promote integration. The informal sector also provides services to a large number of population. In order to promote efficient and effective delivery of urban services, it is important to work on the integrated approaches involving key stakeholders.     

英语形容词的语义功能及基本理论

英语形容词修饰名词时,除了具有传统意义上的描绘功能之外,还有分类和确定的功能。形容词的这三种功能同它们的基本性质以及它们与它们所修饰的名词之间的语义关系有直接关系,而且也决定了它们的并列、插入、位置和等级。本文试从理论上对这些问题进行初步的分析,以使我们能获得对形容词使用的理性认识     

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.     

Installing Circuit Breakers: Mechanisms to Avoid Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

This paper suggests that a synergy is both possible and necessary between two traditionally distinct management approaches: the Weberian approach, which contends that the bureaucratic structure of a company affects the daily activities of employees, and the human relations model, which holds that small group leadership dynamics at the divisional/department level affects daily activities of employees. The tendency within organizations is to promote one approach over the other. A resolution to the debate is suggested in applying mechanisms to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Indeed, the courts have inadvertently pointed the way: the reasonable woman standard urges a human relations approach to resolving the problem of sexual harassment, placing the burden of solving the problem on supervisor personnel and their ability to direct their employee's behavior; the hostile environment issues promotes a Weberian structural solution, requiring sound policy be developed at the executive level to ensure workplace compliance to appropriate normative behavior. A one-sided approach is doomed to failure, which may explain why the issue continues to rage in the corporate sphere.     

A Goodness-of-fit Test for Exponentiality Based on the Memoryless Property

In this investigation a test of goodness of fit for exponentiality is proposed. This procedure applies equally whether the scale and/or the location parameters of the distribution are known or not. The limiting null and non-null distributions of the test statistic are normal under minimal conditions. Monte Carlo critical values for small sample sizes are given and the power of the test is calculated for various alternatives showing that it compares favourably relatively to other more complicated published procedures.     

廉政文化建设的基本内涵与价值初探

文章分析了廉政文化建设的基本内涵要素,探讨了廉政文化建设的理论与实践价值,剖析了廉政文化建设价值实现的有利条件和制约因素。     

中国人对社会主义的认知历程

从认识史的视角考察中国人对社会主义的认知历程,中国人对社会主义的认识迄今大致经历了3个发展阶段。在第一个阶段上,主要是从对资本主义的否定认识中界定社会主义,即社会主义是资本主义不是的那个东西。在第二个阶段上,主要是在自我反思与自我否定中剔除许多长期被置于社会主义名下而实际上并不具有社会主义属性的东西。这两个认识阶段目前大体已经完成。在第三个阶段上,我们则试图在中国特色社会主义的语境下,从社会主义的自我确证中重新思考社会主义是什么。这一探索目前仍在进行中。     

清末上海城市交通事故与社会舆论——以《申报》相关报道为线索

城市新式交通工具的普及,在方便出行、延伸出行距离、扩大人们交往范围的同时,也带来了难以避免的交通事故。以人力车、马车为代表的非机动车辆作为城市主要交通工具的时期,由它们所引发的交通事故导致的对人身和财产的伤害,一时间为广大市民和社会舆论重视和关注,但舆论关注的重点、倾向以及两群体本身之间有明显的不同。     

马克思早期对人的本质理解方式的变化

马克思早期通过批判利己主义,追求人的自由解放。他分析了政治解放所造成的人的二重化,进而阐明了人们的阶级差别和对立。通过研究政治经济学,马克思用人固有的社会本质来批判以货币为中介的异己交往关系,把自由自觉的劳动作为人的类本质,批判了资本主义的异化劳动,阐明黑格尔哲学中的自我是对利己主义的人的理论抽象。针对青年黑格尔派对人的孤立化理解,马克思强调,利己主义的人处于社会联系中。在《关于费尔巴哈的提纲》中,马克思从现实的社会实践出发,把人的本质理解为现实社会关系的总和,超越了费尔巴哈的类本质的观点。在《德意志意识形态》中,马克思从既定社会条件下的现实的个人出发,批判了施蒂纳的极端利己主义等,创立了历史唯物主义。     

公共预算是可能的吗？——温岭市参与式预算案例研究

民主社会的基本要求之一是财政的公开透明,而公共预算正是保证财政公开透明的重要方式之一。但在我国现实情况下,要求所有公众完全参与到预算制定、执行、监督过程中是不现实的,而且当前亦缺乏一种可供所有政府部门借鉴的预算运行模式。因此,通过分析温岭市参与式预算实践机制这一运行模式,可以从中找出其普遍性意义和可推广性特征,为我国公...