美国实力的现实与局限

尽管美国实力的现实表现得非常明显,而且没有一个可与其实力相媲美的强有力的竞争对手,但如果其采取单边主义行为,它的局限就会表现出来。美国的政治、安全、军事、经济以及媒体等各个方面的实力都是客观存在的。美国所犯的错误可能不会导致世界秩序的崩溃,但极有可能削弱美国的相对实力并且疏远与其它国家的关系,从而弱化美国实力的效能,使美国的单边主义实现自我修正。     

论市场经济条件下的政治权力

政治权力结构调整在当前主要是协调集权与分权的关系,既维护中央权威,又激发各领域、各层次权系的自主性、积极性。这种调整是在我国的基本政治制度前提和政治优势下的拓展,既能从制度和机制上使权力结构不至于凝固、僵化,又可以避免权力失衡、腐败,从而寻求权力结构的最佳配置。     

Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults

Increasing research highlights heterogeneity in patterns of social network change, with growing evidence that these patterns are shaped in part by social structure. The role of social and structural neighborhood conditions in the addition and loss of kin and non-kin network members, however, has not been fully considered. In this paper, we argue that the residential neighborhood context can either facilitate or prevent the turnover of core network relationships in later life – a period of the life course characterized by heightened reliance on network ties and vulnerability to neighborhood conditions. Using longitudinal data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project linked with data from the American Community Survey, we find that higher levels of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage are associated with the loss of older adults’ kin and non-kin network members over time. Higher levels of perceived neighborhood social interaction, however, are associated with higher rates of adding non-kin network members and lower rates of adding kin network members over time. We suggest that neighborhood conditions, including older adults’ perceptions of neighborhood social life, represent an underexplored influence on kin and non-kin social network dynamics, which could have implications for access to social resources later in the life course.     

Linking power and inequality in global value chains

There is increasing interest in the study of globalization on whether the emergence and consolidation of global value chains (GVCs) have exacerbated inequalities within and across nations and/or how GVCs may be leveraged to mitigate them. Although power asymmetries have been identified as a central factor shaping (un)successful GVC participation, dominant discourses still disregard the links between power and inequality or use these concepts interchangeably. In this article, we provide an analytical approach to GVC-related inequalities (within, along and through value chains) and examine how they may co-evolve with different types of power (bargaining, demonstrative, institutional and constitutive). We apply this approach to the case study of the hake value chain in South Africa to illustrate how existing inequalities are manifested, challenged, mitigated or exacerbated—and draw an agenda for future research.     

论毛泽东根据地政权建设理论的形成

中国共产党是在学习俄国十月革命经验的基础上,随着新民主主义革命的深入和根据地政权的巩固和发展,逐步创立了符合中国国情的根据地政权建设理论。《星星之火,可以燎原》的发表,标志着毛泽东根据地政权建设思想的形成。     

Improving precision and power in randomized trials with a two-stage study design: Stratification using clustering method

In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), it is possible to improve precision and power and reduce sample size by appropriately adjusting for baseline covariates. There are multiple statistical methods to adjust for prognostic baseline covariates, such as an ANCOVA method. In this paper, we propose a clustering-based stratification method for adjusting for the prognostic baseline covariates. Clusters (strata) are formed only based on prognostic baseline covariates, not outcome data nor treatment assignment. Therefore, the clustering procedure can be completed prior to the availability of outcome data. The treatment effect is estimated in each cluster, and the overall treatment effect is derived by combining all cluster-specific treatment effect estimates. The proposed implementation of the procedure is described. Simulations studies and an example are presented.     

《看麦娘》生命意义的探求

]池莉的《看麦娘》是一篇真正的叩问人类生命价值和意义的中篇小说 ,是精神自由与生命力度的体现。本文试从生命直觉、生命力度、形象的重塑、家庭与社会中自我的存在与缺失 ,以及人性终极关怀的角度 ,探讨它的美学、社会哲学与生命哲学意蕴——对生命力度的永恒追求 ,是我们挑战外部世界 ,获得自我完满实现的依据。     

Chuck and Pierre at the Welfare Office1

After an ethnographic vignette that encapsulates the typical trajectory of an applicant to welfare benefits observed during a year of collaborative fieldwork, this brief essay will put to work Tilly’s notion of “invisible elbow” and Bourdieu’s understanding of waiting as a strategy of power in order to clarify the cultural dynamics of a welfare waiting room in the age of neoliberalism.     

崇文向学与尚武好斗——明清历修《赣州府志》对赣南民风的表达

民风是各类地方志都会涉及到的普遍话题.在明清历修<赣州府志>中,崇文向学与尚武好斗是两幅主要的民风图景,这两幅图景既是地方志作者对赣南民风已然世界的白描,也是对赣南民风应然世界的期待.地方志对民风描写及诠释的微妙变化,既映射出地方社会治乱环境的变迁,更标示着国家与地方、地方与地方、精英与民众以及土著与移民之间的诸多权力关系和利益诉求,具有多元话语的特征.正是这一特征,规限着地方志在对地方民风做某种程度客观呈现的同时,又要做符合特定利益关系的建构.