Education,education and indoctrination! Packaging politics and the three ‘Rs’

This paper explores how recent Labour governments have tried systematically to package educational and other social policies for media presentation and public consumption. This concern has resulted in the criticism that Labour is concerned with policy presentation above content: strong on policy spin but weak on policy delivery. The first section explores Labour’s attempts to set a favourable agenda in news media for its educational policies by implementing a rigorous news management strategy: the subsequent section analyses Labour’s unprecedented use of advertising to promote key areas of government policy. There is a particular focus on government advertising in the run up to the 2001 general election. The paper concludes that governments’ increasing reliance on advertising may cross the line which should separate the provision of public information from any attempt to persuade the public to support particular policy choices.     

Catalyzing Research Competitiveness: The Georgia Research Alliance

Virtually everywhere, there is governmental interest in developing and using science and technology as a tool for economic development and other public purposes. States within the United States look to advance vis-à-vis other states, just as nations seek to rise in competitiveness. What institutional mechanisms work? What research and other strategies are effective? The Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) represents an important model that appears successful. During the 1990s, key business executives, university presidents, and state government forged a research partnership - GRA. A non-profit entity, GRA played a catalytic role in getting state government, industry, and universities in a specific region to work in concert to hire scientific luminaries, attract federal research funds, and translate research into economic development. The dynamics of this catalytic entity are discussed using a life-cycle model of organizational development.     

国图收藏的美国政府出版物及其开发利用研究

介绍了美国政府出版物的出版发行概况，中国国家图书馆国际组织与外国政府出版物组对其的采集、管理及收藏情况。分析了馆藏文献的载体形式特征，重点讨论了其内容特征及重要文献。以便读者更好地利用之。     

陕西汉水流域社区图书馆模式设想

本文针对当前社区图书馆建设的六种模式，结合陕西汉水流域的特点，提出在陕西汉水流域建立一种新型社区图书馆的模式，并对这种模式的组成部分逐一进行了可行性分析。     

政府信息资源元数据描述框架研究

XML作为主流的元数据描述语言,可以在电子政务系统中,为政府信息资源提供统一的描述框架。框架主要由模式层、应用层、环境层三部分组成。模式层由政府信息资源元数据描述模式框架描述,基于XML的元数据描述应用框架支撑了元数据的具体应用,而XML应用框架生命周期和XML元数据技术的协同工作解决了元数据应用的可操作性和可持续性。图1。参考文献9。     

The Development in Germany of Archival Processing – The Vertical and Horizontal Appraisal

Based on a discussion about appraisal which has been going on for over a 100 years, the so-called vertical and horizontal appraisal have been developed and tested since the middle of the 1990s. During this process the tasks, functions and competences of the agencies, which are to be appraised were analysed. The appraisal of the content itself is undertaken only when multiple archival processing has been eliminated by this method and the most significant records identified. Actual tasks and functions of single administrative branches of different institutions (federal government, states, counties, and municipalities) are appraised, apart from already closed records. In this way, agencies creating archives and records today receive written decisions on the appraisal of records, which will be offered to the archives in future. Archivists of different institutions are involved in this appraisal procedure. The experience gained here has continually developed the techniques of vertical and horizontal appraisal. This appraisal procedure is being further developed in a constant balance between theory and practice.     

当今日本新闻业的实用主义

当今日本的新闻业看上去充满了民主之风,实际上却出现了一些问题,原因在于日本政府的政策和媒体自身。文章分析了日本新闻业和政治的相互关系,揭示了日本新闻业实用主义风潮的本质,对新闻业唯政治马首是瞻的情况进行了批评并分析了问题产生的原因和目前的解决措施。     

制约社区体育健身俱乐部发展的政府因素分析

随着我国社会的不断发展,构建一个和谐稳定的社会已成为人们的共识,非营利组织因其特有的社会功能而成为社会建设的一个重点。本文以社会学的视角和方法,对政府推动下的社区体育健身俱乐部的现状进行了深入的调查研究,论述了影响、制约俱乐部发展的根本原因——政府的过度干预,提出了俱乐部发展的一些思考和建议。     

构建和谐社会进程中的政府缺陷与模式选择

构建和谐社会进程中政府起着主导作用。但是,在和谐社会建设过程中,政府自身存在比较严重的政府缺陷,表现为政府治理理念不科学,政府职能定位不合理,政府绩效评估不健全,政府腐败形势不乐观,政府行政不作为严重,从而构成了建设和谐的障碍。为此,必须变革政府缺陷,建立和建设人本型、服务型、有限型、阳光型、法治型、创新型、廉洁型、效能型的现代责任政府。