公共产品供给机制创新及其法律规制

供给机制不完善是造成公共产品供求矛盾的一个根本原因。现行单向的决策机制、一元的供给主体和垄断性供给方式带来诸多弊端。创新供给机制,建立自下而上多利益中心决策机制、建立包括政府、市场和第三部门在内的多元化供给主体机制和供给方式。法律规制中应赋予不同利益组织参与决策权,主体间供给责任分配。规制法律既有公法还包括私法,并遵循双重利益平衡和充分竞争原则。     

专业素养”导向的学前教育专业课程体系建构——基于湖南女子学院学前教育专业课程建设的思考

学前教育教师的“专业素养”是指职业人格特质、专业知识特质、教育实践特质及学术特质四个方面的集合体,它是一个多元复杂的结构。“专业素养”导向课程体系建构的实践逻辑是：以“专业素养”为纲,选择课程内容、整体性构建模块化的课程体系。其课程体系包括：追求博雅的通识教育课程、结合实践的专业理论课程、联系理论的全程实践课程、理论与实践共育的系统化专业技能课程,并在四类课程中反映出学前教育专业的学术性特征。各课程模块是一个交叉整合的网状结构。     

Points System:An Universal Beneficial System with Multiple Objectives of Reform on Household Registration System

Reform of China's Household Registration system(HRS) has been entering a new stage and deserves us to research.The paper argues that reform of HRS should have multiple objectives.It examines various local efforts and practices of the reform and claims that the point system is one of the most feasible alternative systems for the HRS that can fit those multiple reform objectives.The system could also be treated as the new institutional basic for public welfare provision and rights allocation,and a new governance means for population issues as well in China's transitional period.     

Networks for Welfare Provision: Getting a Grip on Processes of Social Exclusion by Evaluating Network Effectiveness

It has been repeatedly stated that the topic of network effectiveness has often been neglected. This has led to a situation of ‘network euphoria’ amongst practitioners and policymakers with regard to the creation of networks as a means to (re‐)organize welfare provision. Starting from a case study of networks for welfare provision in two Belgian cities, this article focuses on the effectiveness of service delivering networks at the client level, which is understood as the contribution of the network in improving the conditions of life of those being served or targeted by the network. Therefore, we focused on the collective efforts via these networks (e.g. by creating a night shelter or by conducting case consultations) to look after a population of homeless people who face multiple problems and are not able yet to benefit from welfare provision. Our findings revealed that these networks were able to realize a ‘collaborative advantage’ by filling in service gaps and by overcoming fragmentation of care. Nevertheless, these networks equally maintained criteria that restricted the accessibility or usefulness of welfare services provided to homeless people. In the concluding section, we highlight some of the factors that could help us to explain our findings and highlight the tension between the effectiveness of networks at the client level and the effectiveness at the organizational level.     

Women’s experiences of,and attitudes to,maternity education across the perinatal period in Victoria,Australia: A mixed-methods approach

Background

While the provision of maternity education across the perinatal period can increase the confidence and self-efficacy in childbearing women, there is still thought to be a lack of effective educational resources for parenthood. This study, conducted in Victoria, Australia, investigated women’s experiences of, and attitudes to education communicated in maternity service provision.

Who cares and how much: exploring the determinants of co-residential informal care

The importance of informal care provided inside the household (co-residential care) is widely acknowledged in policy circles. However, the factors that determine the likelihood and scale of provision are not fully understood. A two-part model (2PM) is used to investigate both participation and levels of provision. Random effects dynamic panel specifications are employed. Results show that co-residential informal care competes with other time demanding activities, such as childcare and employment. Wealthier individuals are less likely to be caregivers, whereas wealthier households have a higher tendency towards caregiving. Evidence of both substitution and complementarity is found between formal and informal care. Informal care and health status are significantly related, with carers more likely to report worse General Health Questionnaire scores than non-carers. Finally, significant dynamic effects are observed with the continuance of the provision of informal care being more likely than the initiation of such activity, while heavy commitment in the past increases the hours provided in the current period.

"过牧"的制度解释及治理的制度设计--对玛曲县人草畜紧张关系的制度经济学思考

黄河源区草地生态环境的恶化趋势,并没有因近几年政策的投入而得到遏制.因此,有必要对其形成原因及治理的制度结构进行分析,以厘清此类地区实现可持续发展所必需的制度创新.以黄河源区的玛曲县近三十年过牧历史为案例,对高寒牧区制度变迁中的路径依赖和锁定问题进行了新的阐释,并对可持续性的制度框架进行了设计.     

Women in Congregations and Social Service Provisions

Abstract

The role of women in American congregations is a topic that has gained attention in the past twenty years. The majority of work has focused on leadership and clergy roles and the willingness, or reluctance of, denominations to ordain women. In this article, we report on women as members, lay-leaders, and clergy in Philadelphia congregations, and we assess the factors that explain the rate of women in any of these roles. We find that regardless of the advancement in many areas of society, women are still the majority members yet are a minority among the clergy. Finally, we study how the gender composition of members, lay-leaders, and clergy explain the congregation's involvement in social service provisions. In this respect, gender composition of members, lay-leaders, and clergy made little impact on the congregational social service involvement. A variety of explanations are provided to account for women's little impact in this domain.     

制度供给、财政分权与中国的农村治理

治理分为经济治理和政治治理两类项目。在中国自上而下供给主导型制度变迁的基本模式下,有必要在一个统一的框架内梳理新中国建立以来农村经济和政治治理的变迁情况。在供给主导型制度变迁模式下,中央政府针对农村治理的制度安排,往往受中央政府不同政策目标的权衡及地方政府激励相容条件的制约,从这个意义上讲,人民公社时期和改革开放至今,中国农村经济治理和政治治理的原则,都是内生于以财政收支为主要内容的国家建构过程的。特别是由于治理的实施既有赖于中央政府不同政策目标间的权衡,同时也取决于地方政府的支持和配合,因而蕴涵在不同层级政府间财政收支安排中的政府收支责任及地方政府的激励相容问题,对中国农村治理有重要影响。     

Novel Funding Paradigm for Social Work Services in China: Reflections on the Guangzhou Experience

Three decades of Chinese economic modernization created wonders that transform the living of the population. Yet economic affluence also spawns juggernauts of new social ills, and mounting social tensions emerge from widening inequalities between the wealthy and the less privileged. Local governments are under intense pressure to identify new approaches to addressing new social problems such as rising unemployment, elderly neglect, and juvenile delinquency through social management. This article recapitulates some of the experience of non‐governmental organizations through collaborating with the authorities, in pioneering social work services using new mode of public funding mechanism.