Cyberocracy is coming

Abstract

The government world lags behind the business world in feeling the effects of the information technology revolution and related innovations in organization. But government may change radically in the decades ahead. This essay fields a concept— cyberocracy—to discuss how the development of, and demand for access to, the future electronic information and communications infrastructures (i.e., cyberspace) may alter the nature of the bureaucracy. Although it is too early to say precisely what a cyberocracy may look like, the outcomes may include new forms of democratic, totalitarian, and hybrid governments. Optimism about the information revolution should be tempered by a constant, anticipatory awareness of its potential dark side.     

Ethics,politics and bio-pedagogy in physical education teacher education: easing the tension between the self and the group

In this paper, we argue that reflecting upon our personal experiences and the origins of our ethical and political beliefs can be useful to see that, as much as society has a strong influence on us, each of us has the capacity to influence society. Also we suggest that there exist intimate links between personhood and pedagogy. As such, through the use of bio-pedagogical passages, we examine the process of coming to the realisation of the need to develop ethical principles that enable us to contribute to society in universally beneficial ways through our teaching. Moreover, we explain that, as they try to help prospective educators understand their future role in society, physical education teacher educators (PETEs) ought to start with clear ethical principles, not just merely technical (or even scientific) ones. These principles, in turn, can serve as a guide for all pedagogical (read political) actions, both inside and outside the classroom. We close this paper offering viable guidelines as to how this can be done.     

多媒体技术在思想政治课教学中的运用

多媒体技术在教学中有铺垫、突破、强化和概括等辅助作用，要充分利用多媒体技术，积极探索并发挥其在思想政治课教学中的作用。     

浅议构建和谐社会思想对高校思想政治教育的启示

高校思想政治教育作为大学生素质教育的重要组成部分，承担着我国人才培养的重任。党的十六届四中全会提出的构建“社会主义和谐社会”思想对高校思想政治教育工作的加强和改进提出了有益的借鉴。本文站在构建和谐社会的高度对改进我国高校思想政治教育工作提出了个人见解。     

《新华文摘》2001-2010年“政治”专栏载文统计分析

《新华文摘》自创刊以来,一直致力于促进思想解放、繁荣学术研究,在众多期刊杂志中独领风骚,本文通过对《新华文摘》基本知识、研究现状的简单梳理,以该刊2001-2010年“政治”专栏的裁文为研究对象,归纳出其独立性、综合性、导向性、权威性、现实性等特点,力图促进日后政治学的研究和发展,,     

对漳州市财政政法经费管理实践的思考

改革开放以来,随着我国社会主义市场经济和公共财政的逐步建立和发展,漳州市财政部门围绕着保障与管理也进行了一系列改革,对巩固政权建设,提高党的执政能力发挥了重要物质保障作用.但在实际工作中,财政政法经费的管理也存在着一些问题,文章就如何解决这些问题提出了相应的对策措施.     

近代中国协商政治的早期试验

政治协商是我国社会主义民主政治的重要实现形式和政党制度的基本活动形式,是一种具有非常不同内容和形式的理论思维,与历史上的协商尝试有一定的联系.清末的谘议局和咨政院、第一次国共合作时期的两党联席会议、抗日战争时期的国民参政会,以及抗日战争胜利后的政治协商会议这些较有意义的协商尝试,都对中国政治协商制度的创建有一定的历史影响     

No Jack Kennedy: Mitt Romney's “Faith in America” Speech and the Changing Religious-Political Environment

In December of 2007, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney traveled to Texas to give an address on religion and politics. The speech was heralded by many as Romney's “JFK moment.” This study explores the campaign religion speeches of Kennedy and Romney by considering various issues concerning context, audience, and content of the two speeches. Guiding this analysis is Roderick Hart's work on the civil-religious contract and Kenneth Burke's work on dramatistic analysis, which are utilized to demonstrate that—despite the media's proclamations—Romney's speech represented a stark shift from Kennedy's rhetorical approach. Implications are drawn concerning the differences between the two speeches and an understanding of the confessional political style guiding the intersection of religion and politics today.     

Cultural Studies and/of Economic Rights: Neglect and Promise

This article theorizes the historical non-relation between cultural studies and economic rights discourse, tracing it to ideal typical distinctions between economy and culture in early cultural studies; Karl Marx's influence on Left thought generally via his critique of bourgeois rights; and Foucauldian governmentalist treatments of rights as neoliberal technologies of control and treatments of economy as having no agency of its own but rather as an effect of governmentality. It then introduces a case-study conjunctural history of American economic rights as a history of present American citizenship and politics in order to demonstrate the historically contingent articulations of individual freedom, government, and economic relations, which are not easily explained by the Marxist or Foucauldian vocabularies. The conjunctural history provides cultural studies research with a new perspective for attention to radical democracy and critiques of neoliberal capitalist policies without surrendering the utility of rights to (neo)liberalism.