Keeping things different: coexistence within European markets for cleantech and biofuels

Environmental policy increasingly resorts to market-based instruments in order to meet sustainability objectives. The ‘carbon market’ instituted by the European Emissions Trading directive from 2003 is a canonical example, which has been described, and critiqued, as a delegation of policy objectives to market exchanges. In this paper, we examine the complex ways in which the operationalization of policy objectives and the organization of markets are intertwined, focusing on two other examples of European environmental regulation. The first one is the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control directive from 1996, which defined the ‘best available techniques’ to curb emissions in air, water and soil. The second one is the Renewable Energy Directive from 2009, which introduced criteria for the definition of the sustainability of biofuels. Through the analysis of the design and implementation of these two directives, we identify a central concern for the coexistence of various objects, and various initiatives undertaken by European institutions, member states and private actors. We use the notion of coexistence to describe a European political and economic ordering that is inherently hybrid, and cannot be reduced to a mere delegation of policy objectives to the market, or a legal constraint imposed on all European actors. It grounds its political legitimacy and economic rationality on the distribution of roles and responsibilities across public and private actors, and on the ability to ‘keep things different’ according to local variabilities.     

What price evidence? The ethics of office and the ethics of social science in British cultural policy

This paper considers the use of evidence for government decision-making using ethnographically informed data from the lived experiences of those involved in British cultural policy. It does this in order to engage and extend work that has sought to defend bureaucratic forms of activity. The paper offers an empirical case study of how the civil servants’ ethic of office [DuGay, P. (2008) ‘Max weber and the moral economy of office’, Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 129–144] is reinforced by the identity of the social scientist. The use of social science in policy advice is a moment where the bureaucrats are able to distance themselves from political decision-making, thus reasserting an important aspect of civil service practice and identity. However, as the latter part of the article illustrates, the dynamics of cultural policy-making, in particular the use of economics, situate the role of social science as paradoxical. It is both supportive and corrosive of the bureaucratic ethic. This paradox is the basis for a critical perspective on the ethic of office as deployed in contemporary government.     

谈高师院校综合文科教育专业的发展前景

教育的综合化是当今世界教育发展的潮流 ,综合文科教育作为综合教育的重要组成部分 ,在我国基础教育课程改革不断深入的社会条件下 ,因能够适应素质教育、终身教育的需求以及人才的流动性 ,该专业必将具有良好的发展前景。     

浅谈发挥学生在英语教学中的主体作用

本文从英语的教学目的导入,强调了发挥学生主体作用的思想基础；并以学生主体地位确立为依据,就如何发挥学生的主体作用,以及传授知识和发展能力的关系进行阐述。     

认清形势深化高校体育教育改革

进入新世纪 ,我国高校体育的教学内容、教学方法将更具多样性 ,教育目标将从单纯的身体教育观发展到终身体育观 ,对高校体育教师也提出更高、更全面的要求。     

建立健全促进非公有制经济发展的制度支撑体系

非公有制经济是我国社会主义市场经济的重要组成部分。要谋求中国经济的快速发展,必须在坚持公有制为主体的前提下大力发展非公有制经济,这已成为全党全国人民的共识;而要更好更快地发展非公有制经济,必须建立健全促进非公有制经济发展的制度和政策支撑体系,改进政府管理和服务。     

高职院校学校体育政策执行情况分析

学校体育政策在高职院校执行过程中存在缺损,这是由于教育政策的执行主体在认识上有偏差,体育政策执行的条件和环境还需改善,体育政策本身有待完善。高职院校要落实好学校体育政策必须提高认识,完善政策执行条件和环境,加强监督与评估。     

Semantic Models of Host-Immigrant Relations in Norwegian Education Policies

Education has continuously been regarded as a vital tool in Norwegian policymakers' immigrant integration agendas. This study analyzes semantic structures substantiating the policy language of historical Norwegian immigrant education policies from their inception in 1973 until today (2013). The analysis is framed by Kronenfeld's linguistic anthropological theory “semantic extensionism”. Four distinct semantic models are identified through the historical period. Each model comprises specific overall policy programs, education system characters, teaching methods, and parameters for equality output evaluations. We show how the core semantic structures of each model, and the changes between them, derive from three interacting factor domains: (1) semantic inclusion and contrast relations, (2) pragmatic characteristics of practice fields, and (3) broader welfare state policy histories.     

如何认识和控制我国当前的财政债务规模

我国财政债务规模包括中央财政规模和隐性、或有债务规模。为此,只有全面认识财政债务的实际规模,并分析其不断扩大的原因,才能在实践中采取有效措施,控制和缩减当前的财政债务规模。     

西部大开发战略的经济学思考

西部大开发战略的提出标志着我国经济发展战略的重大转变,也是实现经济均衡发展的重要举措,如何实现西部经济快速起飞,关键在于实现三个转变：经济发展战略从“梯度推移论”到西部跳跃发展;经济发展环境从偏向沿海地区向西部地区转移;经济发展重点从城市偏向改革到注重农村市场开拓。