The concept of risk society as a model for risk regulation – its hidden and not so hidden ambitions,side effects,and risks1

Beck’s risk society has become a highly influential theory in sociology and has begun to influence risk policy-making and regulation. The theory has been given too much credit, however. This article identifies and analyzes the troubling features of risk society, and demonstrates that it is a loose set of vague ideas, feelings, and hunches, rather than a theory. Risk society, as distinguished from modern industrial society, is a risk management society concerned with the identification and distribution of risks arising from industrial activities, while downplaying natural and other risks. Devoid of empirical content and analytical tools, it promotes a simplistic precautionary anti-industrial environmental and safety ethic. Risk society involves politicization of science and self-interested activism in risk management decision-making. Due to its unrealistic dogmas, ambitions, and side effects, risk society is unable to manage risks effectively and efficiently, and poses a threat to constitutional democracy. Policy-makers and risk managers, therefore, should not rely on risk society theory in designing and implementing risk management structures and regulations.     

论经济法的分配正义观--从罗尔斯和诺齐克之争谈起

自古希腊先哲苏格拉底提出分配正义理念以来,众学者对此概念莫衷一是,并在现代形成了罗尔斯以国家干预为核心和诺齐克以产权独立为核心的截然不同的理论进路。国家角色的历史嬗变成为其在实现分配正义过程中发挥作用的充分条件,社会贫富差距的拉大及其累进效应成为国家作用的必要条件。经济法契合罗尔斯的分配正义理念,以国家作用为依托,达到对实质分配正义的维护。     

谁把“诗人”赶出了“理想国”从柏拉图的命题谈美学与政治的关系

美学与政治的关系是一个古老而不衰的话题。在西方,柏拉图最早提出“美是理念”的命题,但同时又认为“诗人”应该被排除在“理想国”之外。如何理性地处理美学与政治的关系,对经历了一个多世纪的战争和动乱的当代世界来说,对需要建立和完善当代社会意识形态的中国来说有着重要的意义。该文从柏拉图的命题看似矛盾的地方人手,通过从哲学上分析美学与政治的理论起源和发展逻辑,分析两者之间的辩证的历史的关系。     

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。     

浅议生态环境与政治生态化

人类对自然和自身的不正确认识及盲目开发行为，导致了20世纪六七十年代全球性生态危机。生态危机的产生与发展成为生态政治运动兴起的动因和基础，推动了各国政治和国际政治生态化的发展。生态政治产生发展是政治生态学、政治生态化形成的前提和基础，政治生态化是生态政治发展的必然趋势和结果，是解决当前全球生态危机的不可或缺的根本措施之一，是全球经济、社会、文化、生态环境协调、持续、健康、发展的必然选择，也是未来政治发展的趋势之一。     

交易费用政治学:现状与前景

从 2 0世纪 80年代开始 ,交易费用经济学开始被运用来研究政治领域的许多问题。虽然这一领域已经积累了大量的文献 ,但即使在英语文献里 ,仍然还没有研究者全面地对于这个领域的研究进行评估。本文先评述这个领域的主要研究成果 ,然后 ,分析为什么交易费用经济学可以用来分析政治问题 ,并总结了交易费用政治学的贡献。最后 ,分析了交易费用政治分析存在的问题以及未来的研究领域。     

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.