我国城市社区文化建设新思路

城市社区文化是一种广泛的群众性文化。城市社区文化建设对于提高居民生活质量,加强社区治理,塑造社区精神,实现科学发展意义重大。加强城市社区文化建设,促进社区文化建设大发展,必须提高对城市社区文化建设的新认识,拓展社区文化建设新形式,构建社区文化建设新机制。     

中国当代城市社区异化的文化思考

中国当代城市社区是改革开放的产物。随着改革开放不断深化,社区建设取得了可喜成绩。然而,在社区建设蓬勃发展的过程中,中国城市社区也存在一定问题,出现了异化迹象。这种异化的出现有着深层文化原因。因此,在中国城市社区建设中,必须致力于构建和谐城市社区文化,以推动城市社区健康发展。     

高校心理健康教育存在的问题及对策分析

高校心理健康教育存在对心理健康教育的重要性认识不够,目标功能认识不清、师资匮乏、课程不完善、制度不健全等问题,解决这些问题的对策是:将心理健康教育纳入学校德育体系,加强心理健康教育的制度化、规范化建设,加强心理健康教育工作队伍建设,加强心理健康教育课程体系建设,加强学科教学中的隐性心理健康教育,提高大学生参与心理健康教育的积极性,加强校园文化环境建设,加强网络心理健康教育。     

城市社区文化建设刍议

城市社区文化建设是城市社区建设的重要内容之一。 2 0世纪 90年代以后 ,随着我国城市社区建设蓬勃兴起 ,社区文化建设也得到快速发展 ,但也存在许多问题和矛盾。文章分析了我国社区文化发展的现状与问题 ,并提出了若干对策建议。     

长株潭社区服务信息化可持续发展研究

城市社区服务信息化是推进社区服务,实现社区各主体合作共赢及“资源节约型、环境友好型”城市建设的基础平台。对于长株潭社区居民不断增长的信息服务需求,社区服务信息化建设必须围绕“抓住长株潭城市社区信息服务建设的关键时机,实现长株潭社区信息服务跨越式及可持续发展”的思路,寻求长株潭城市社区信息服务可持续发展的创新模式及其实施的具体途径。     

城市社区精神文明建设探析

以城市社区为载体开展精神文明建设,是深入开展群众性精神文明建设的有效载体和提高社会文明程度的重要途径。城市社区精神文明建设源于市场经济体制的转换和城市化进程的需要;城市社区精神文明建设应秉承＂人本、互助、自主＂理念;应通过强化组织保障、健全服务网络来推进以社区文化、教育、服务、道德、环境等为主要内容的精神文明建设。     

中部地区城市社区发展分析

由于历史、经济、文化等多种因素的影响,我国各地区城市社区建设的水平表现出参差不齐的现状。本文在分析目前城市社区建设的整体特点的基础上,从中部地区的现实处境中寻找其发展优势,继而提出其未来城市社区发展与建设的政策倾向。     

城市社区文化建设中的地域传统文化现状及对策分析

作为城市社区文化建设的基础,绍兴地域传统文化在社区文化建设中的作用日渐减弱,主要表现在居民对地域传统文化的认识不断弱化、城市居民社区参与度低、地域传统文化建设缺乏长效机制等等。这在一定程度上阻碍了城市社区文化建设的发展。对此,可以通过加大地域传统文化宣传力度,用多种手段提升居民的参与度,政府相关部门建立地域传统文化的长效发展机制等加快地域传统文化与社区文化建设融合速度,提升绍兴城市社区发展的步伐。     

城市化进程加速阶段城市社区的要素和目标

城市化进程加速阶段 ,城市社区无论从形态上还是结构上都发生了重大变化。城市社区建设将成为我国城市建设的重点 ,为了引导城市健康发展 ,我们必须科学界定新时期城市社区的内涵 ,明确其发展目标。     

改制与改造——“城中村”向城市社区转化的选择

“城中村”属于以街区巷道、道路河流自然地域划分出的地缘型社区。是指在城市化进程中,在确定的城市建设发展预留地范围内,或因国家建设多年来大量征用土地后仅剩下少量农用地,农民不能靠耕种土地维持生产生活,城市建设征地补偿是村集体经济收益主要来源的行政村。“城中村”是一个类型独特的社区,是以紧紧嵌接在城市社区内或该城市边沿地带的农村社区,山农村社区向城市社区的转化,是“城中村”一种必然的选择。     

Rule of law, democracy, openness, and income

We estimate the interrelationships among economic institutions, political institutions, openness, and income levels, using identification through heteroskedasticity (IH). We split our cross‐national dataset into two sub‐samples: (i) colonies versus non‐colonies; and (ii) continents aligned on an East–West versus those aligned on a North–South axis. We exploit the difference in the structural variances in these two sub‐samples to gain identification. We find that democracy and the rule of law are both good for economic performance, but the latter has a much stronger impact on incomes. Openness (trade/GDP) has a negative impact on income levels and democracy, but a positive effect on rule of law. Higher income produces greater openness and better institutions, but these effects are not very strong. Rule of law and democracy tend to be mutually reinforcing.     

Inflation,money, interest rate,exchange rate,and casuality: the case of Egypt,Morocco, and Tunisia

This study provides further evidence of the inflationary efects of the rates of growth of money supply, gross domestic product, efective exchange rate, and imported inflation for Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia using quarterly data from 1964 to 1990. In addition, it examines the Granger causality between inflation and money supply as well as between inflation and the real exchange rate in the countries under consideration. Most of the results are consistent with extant theory and empirical evidence.     

Quality of judicial institutions,crimes, misdemeanors,and dishonesty

We investigate the extent to which quality of judicial institutions has an impact on individuals’ propensity for criminal and dishonest behavior and on their views regarding the acceptability of dishonesty and law-breaking. We use micro data on residents of 25 European countries and employ alternative measures of judicial quality as perceived by the residents of these countries. As an instrument for judicial quality we employ the procedures with which prosecutors and judges are appointed to their posts in each country. As alternative instruments, we employ an index of de jure institutional quality as well as its components, which provide similar results. The findings show that an increase in the perception of the quality of judicial institutions, such as an improvement in judicial independence or the impartiality of the courts, has a deterrent effect on dishonest and criminal acts. A higher perceived quality of the judicial system also makes individuals less likely to find acceptable a variety of dishonest and illicit behaviors, suggesting that institutions help shape the beliefs of the society. We obtain the same results when we analyze the sample of immigrants, whose cultural attributes should be (more) related to their countries of origin, rather than their countries of residence, and thus should be arguably uncorrelated with the factors that can impact the instrument. We show that people’s beliefs in the importance of the family, in the fairness of others, and the importance of being rich are not impacted by judicial quality, suggesting that judicial quality is not a blanket representation of underlying cultural norms and beliefs in the society.     

Democracy,Rule of Law,Corruption Incentives,and Growth

We bridge the gap between the standard theory of growth and the mostly static theory of corruption. Some public investment can be diverted from its purpose by corrupt individuals. Voters determine the level of public investment subject to an incentive constraint equalizing the returns from productive and corrupt activities. We concentrate on two exogenous institutional parameters: the “technology of corruption” is the ease with which rent‐seekers can capture a proportion of public spending. The “concentration of political power” is the extent to which rent‐seekers have more political influence than other people. One theoretical prediction is that the effects of the two institutional parameters on income growth and equilibrium corruption are different according to the constraints that are binding at equilibrium. In particular, the effect of judicial quality on growth should be stronger when political power is concentrated. We estimate a system of equations where both corruption and income growth are determined simultaneously and show that income growth is more affected by our proxies for legal and political institutions in countries where political rights and judicial institutions, respectively, are limited.     

Country terms of trade: trends,unit roots,over-differencing,endogeneity, time dummies,and heterogeneity

The debate about the Prebisch-Singer thesis has focused on primary commodities with some extensions to manufactures. We analyse trends in country terms-of-trade for goods and services rather than those for commodities according to the World Bank income classification. We find that the natural logarithm of the terms of trade for all groups except for the poorest has common unit roots, but none has individual unit roots. As low-income countries have no unit roots over-differencing is inefficient and biases significance levels in first differences against the fall in the terms of trade. For the low-income countries the terms of trade of goods and services are falling at a rate that is significantly negative without and with endogeneity treatment by system GMM. A comprehensive analysis of the effects of time dummies supports the result of falling terms of trade for low-income countries. When all coefficients are country-specific 50% of all low-income countries have falling terms of trade in a simultaneous equation estimation using the SUR method. Food and financial crisis have no effect on the number of countries with falling terms of trade, but (dis-)improve the terms of trade or the significance of the results for a very small number of countries.