Managing Health Care in Oregon: The Search for a Civic Bioethics

Managed health care deliberations in Oregon point to a "civic bioethics" model to resolve allocation issues through publicly articulated community values and priorities that influence legislative action. Communication practices in the Oregon experiment provide data to develop an evaluative framework to assess public moral deliberation in value-laden contexts such as health care distribution. The Oregon experience also points to dialogical virtues to heighten citizens' ethical sensibilities and political will, discursive tools to inform ethical communication practices in a civic bioethics model.     

亨廷顿政治发展观的变化

80年代末,国人掀起了研究亨廷顿政治思想的热潮.然而,也就是这个时期,亨廷顿的政治发展观发生了重大变化,他的民主取向的政治发展观代替了威权取向的政治发展观.本文试图从他早期政治发展观存在的缺点入手来分析这一重大变化.     

Citizens as planners: Harnessing information and values from the bottom-up

In this paper, we focus on understanding the critical role of everyday citizen in planning and policy-related issues in their city enabled by the newly emerging technological platforms such as mobile-based application and internet-based participatory platforms. The interest and capability of citizens to use and benefit from such online platforms that facilitate urban planning has grown in recent times, which makes it important to study the nature of these platforms and civic engagement that is facilitated through them. We study three such platforms and provide policy recommendations to urban planners based on our analyses of the platforms.     

Arts education partnerships: sources of harmony and dissonance with cultural institutions’ collaborative efforts

ABSTRACT

Due to budget constraints, schools in the United States have increasingly turned to community arts organizations for support. School-community arts partnership stakeholders collaborate because of shared missions to provide students with valuable arts learning experiences. Investigations of these initiatives indicate that these partnerships improve arts learning opportunities and increase public support and resources for arts education. However, not much is known about the experiences and perspectives of the arts organizations that participate in these partnerships. Coordinating collective efforts with a multitude of institutions and interests poses challenges. In this study, we examine survey data collected from arts organization administrators who participated in a large-scale school-community arts partnership initiative. We find that these organizations are generally positive about their impacts on students’ educational outcomes, but there is substantial variation in these views. We also find that organizations differ in their levels of support for these collective efforts. Sources of this variation appear to be attributable to organizations’ preexisting resources and extent to which they are established. While this difference in levels of support is potentially inevitable, we find evidence that the operations handled by the “backbone” organization, i.e. the initiative’s facilitators and overseers, can significantly influence organizations’ levels of support for these efforts. Organizations are more likely to support these collaborative efforts when they believe the backbone organization ensures transparency with initiative operations, provides regular, effective communication, and effectively resolves competing priorities.     

国际组织全球教育治理的路径比较研究——基于核心素养框架的分析

20世纪末以来,联合国教科文组织、经合组织、欧盟等三大国际组织遴选并确立了各自的核心素养框架体系。联合国教科文组织将七大核心素养作为各国教育质量监测与评价的依据;经合组织通过PISA测试成功地将"核心素养"变成全球教育话题,致力于通过PISA测试推动各国教育改革;欧盟赋予成员国较大的自主权,帮助各国建构并落实各自的核心素养框架体系。这三大国际组织落实核心素养的过程具有全球教育治理的共同特征:从治理理念来看,全球教育治理以人类普世价值为基本目标;从治理主体来看,需要建构不同主体之间的互助关系;从治理过程来看,需要建立动态向心的治理体系;从治理手段来看,应以详实的数据为依据制定"游戏规则"。     

关于师德师风建设问题的思考

学校是进行系统道德教育的重要阵地，师德师风建设是教师队伍建设的核心，加强师德师风建设必须以科学理论为指导。以教育法规为基本原则，以《公司道德建设实施纲要》为依据，以敬业乐业，勤力精业，教书育人为基本内容，一手抓教育，一手抓管理，全面提高教师的综合素质。     

论氏族和村社组织中的共产主义精神

氏族和村社是古代社会的最基本组织。氏族是共产主义的原型,村社只有半共产主义的性质。通过对这两种社会组织的考察,可以看到共产主义的基本精神包括三个方面:财产共有、直接民主和互助友爱的道德风尚。     

关于MTV维权事件的法理思考

近期在我国各大城市发生的MTV维权事件,引发了人们关于MTV的法律性质及其收费方式的进一步思考。通过对MTV的特点及其与电影作品、录像制品的区别的分析和版权与邻接权的界限问题的讨论,可以得出这样的结论:著作权集体管理组织及其相应收费机制的缺失是造成MTV诉讼的主要原因。     

非政府组织在我国社会政治生活中的角色与作用

非政府组织(NGO)在全球范围的广泛兴起,不仅对经济社会的发展起到巨大的推动作用,而且在国家政治生活中同样发挥着重要的作用,非政府组织的发展已成为民主化的一个重要动力。在现代社会,非政府组织作为维护社会民主秩序、促进社会公平的一个重要的组织制度来源,决定了它在社会政治生活中独特的角色定位。因此,在我国的政治民主制度建设过程中,应当充分重视非政府组织的作用。     

农民工党建视域下基层党组织设置方式的创新

农民工党建视域下,以行政村为主设置党组织的传统模式已经不能适应农民工党员流动的现实需要,必须从动静结合全覆盖、横向联合全覆盖、纵向整合全覆盖、突出特色全覆盖四个方面创新基层党组织设置方式。在创新过程中必须坚持党的领导、坚持经济社会科学发展、坚持健全制度体系、坚持整体协调发展四项原则。