Interpretations of management and modernisation at the UK Royal Mail: shifting boundaries and patterns of resistance?

This article develops a critical analysis of Royal Mail modernisation, exploring interpretations and reactions among managers, workers and union representatives. By contrast with much of the published research on views and experiences of change at work, it concentrates on the interplay of employee and managerial identities, sensitivities and responses. The findings highlight tensions between and within management and labour, yet also point to shared meanings, cross‐boundary affinities and shifting patterns of allegiance that stimulated joint questioning, criticising and resisting behaviour. This was directed at the modernising agenda set by Royal Mail executives and partnership ties between the company and the Communication Workers Union.     

How Culture and Economy Meet in South Korea: The Politics of Cultural Economy in Culture‐led Urban Regeneration

This article investigates the ways in which cultural economy is formed through negotiation and interaction between local actors in the case of culture‐led regeneration in Gwangju, South Korea. It looks at the dynamics between the bureaucrats' pursuit of economic growth in the city and the efforts of civil society to maintain a strong political spirit throughout the regeneration process. Through in‐depth interviews with various participants and archival analysis, the politics of cultural economy are examined in relation to the Gwangju Biennale and the City of Culture project. The findings show that in these two cases bureaucrats were the dominant force, a tendency that instrumentalized culture. They also illustrate that this dominance brought about resistance from civil society. However, in the process of both engaging in conflict and working with each other, the different discourses of economic growth and cultural meaning were integrated, and in the process mutual learning and adaptation took place among members of the two groups. Civil society also faced cleavages resulting from different approaches to how to collaborate with the bureaucrats and its ensuing self‐reflection on communicative value enhanced its rehabilitation. The article argues that the politics of cultural economy is dynamic, involving processes of renegotiation, adaptation and self‐realization. It also offers the possibility of a new arena for the public sphere. Civil society plays a critical role in the integration of culture and economy.     

改革开放以来反腐倡廉的经验与启示

改革开放以来，我们党在反腐倡廉工作中取得了八条基本经验：重视反腐倡廉理论创新；健全反腐倡廉法律制度；改革反腐倡廉体制机制；完善反腐机构建设；加大惩治腐败工作力度：加强关键领域配套改革；开展反腐倡廉思想教育；坚持反腐倡廉群众路线。由此启示我们，在今后的反腐倡廉工作中，要做到：凡有公共权力存在的地方必须先有约束和监督；建立反腐倡廉的成效考核标准体系；重视对守廉先进典型的激励与宣传工作。     

政治哲学：治理社会的两种理论和方法

政治的根本功能是治理社会，不同的理论模式和方法对于政治选择具有重要意义。从宏观分析层面区分，现代政治哲学主要有系统分析法和矛盾分析法，分别运用这两种方法分析研究社会的理论可以称为社会系统理论与社会冲突理论。人们选择理论模式与社会的不同历史时期相关，革命和战争年代强调矛盾和斗争，以社会冲突理论指导实践无可厚非；和平年代则宜采用系统分析，突出人与人之间和谐合作的一面。     

论“真”的三重维度与王国维的“境界”说

王国维在《人间词话》的开篇就提出了＂词以境界为最上＂的观点,强调把＂境界＂作为品词立论的标准,这一观点的提出动机大致可以从文学、社会政治、哲学三个维度来进行阐释。本文将以＂真＂作为核心和线索,通过文学中重视客观事实之真、社会政治中人们观念、身份变化引起的本真迷失、哲学中重视＂理念＂之真三个方面来进行探讨。     

Some thoughts on the future research on leisure and tourism geography

Geography of leisure and tourism has made quite considerable progress since its beginnings in the 1930s. Looking back on the last decades of research, the thematic areas have broadened with regard to contents and topics. Approaches and methods have become more sophisticated, results more differentiated. However, there are still desiderata as well as shortcomings to be stated.     

Does politics make a difference?

Abstract

The concern of this article is the nature of the politics of public expenditure and whether changes in government between the Conservative Governments of Mrs Thatcher and the Blair Governments did reflect differences in policy priorities? The Thatcher Government in 1979 had announced that public expenditure was at the heart of Britain's economic problems. The Blair Governments did not seek to change the expenditure plans outlined by the outgoing Chancellor Kenneth Clarke. This study seeks to show that the analysis of data using long term trends for the post war period that the during the years of the Thatcher Government they government did manage to hold expenditure below its long term grwoth trends which in turn meant reductions in health and education spending while there were additional spending in law and order and defence. By contrast the Blair Government has managed to reverse this trend so that during the years of the Balir Government expenditure on socal provision has been expanding above the trend.     

用课堂探究提升新课程下高中政治教学实效

高中政治课探究式教学可以增强教学的时代感、针对性、实效性和主动性,培养学生科学的世界观、人生观和价值观,为学生终身发展奠定思想政治素质基础。探究性学习增强教学实践的具体策略包括：政治教师必须转变观念,适应角色转换;吃透课程标准,合理安排探究活动;关注学生,关注实效,关注评价。