The effects of police performance on agency trustworthiness and citizen participation

ABSTRACT

We examine the effect of performance information on citizens’ willingness to engage with government. We hypothesize that when performance information is positive, citizens perceive government as trustworthy, which increases proclivity for participation. To validate this framework, we conduct an experiment that tests the effect of police performance on citizens’ perceptions of police trustworthiness and intentions to participate in a neighbourhood watch programme. We find that information about police performance strongly affects perceptions of police trustworthiness. Yet, citizen decisions to participate in the community watch programme are more complex and can be triggered by either positive or negative police performance.     

Do professional associations make a difference?: linking municipal managers’ association participation and attitudes toward citizen participation

ABSTRACT

There has been a lingering debate on the relationship between public managers’ professional socialization and their acceptance of citizen participation. In this paper, it is empirically confirmed that association participation strengthens municipal managers’ predispositions toward engaging citizens. It is found that municipal managers that are active in generalist-oriented professional associations will be more likely to realize successful practices for citizen engagement in peer municipalities, which boosts their perceived sense of citizen contribution, and reduces their perceptions on the costliness of engaging citizens. These relationships are found to be mediated by municipal managers’ technocratic orientation and engagement self-efficacy.     

OCB视角下的派遣员工激励

经济全球化背景下的产业转移升级和企业用工需求的增长,正推动服务外包业务加快进行。特别是在全球金融动荡的经济环境下,将有更多的跨国公司将其非核心业务外包,以降低成本、增强竞争力,这些因素都将推动劳务派遣用工方式的加速进行。因此,派遣员工的规范、管理、激励等问题亟待解决。文章在激励理论和组织公民行为理论的基础上,分析了不同类型派遣员工组织公民行为的分类和特征,提出基于组织公民行为理论的派遣员工激励策略。     

创新公民参与预算监督机制研究--以温岭市箬横代表工作站为视角

公民参与预算监督是保障公民权利的一个重要途径。而当前公民参与的秩序不佳,效果不足亟需创新公民参与预算监督机制。试图通过剖析温岭以代表工作站为依托的公民参与机制剖析,将成熟的事前监督机制引入温岭预算监督的全过程,以期创新公民参与预算监督机制,提升公民参与监督秩序与效能。     

国家——社会关系视角中政府职能转变的目标取向

国家——社会关系的变化直接影响政府职能转变。市场化改革使我国国家与社会的关系由一元化向二元分化与良性互动的方向发展，市民社会和民间力量不断发展壮大。在国家——社会二元分化的背景下转变政府职能要求做到合理界定政府、市场、社会的界限，提升政府能力，实现制度创新，服务行政，培育市民社会等五个方面，并最终把“善治”作为政府职能转变的落脚点和目标取向。     

两种政治概念之比较：卡尔·施密特与汉娜·阿伦特

作为20世纪重要的两位政治思想家,卡尔·施密特和汉娜·阿伦特关于政治概念的界定缘于不同的政治理论和政治实践。施密特的政治概念源于对霍布斯国家学说的反思和扬弃,阿伦特的政治概念则是对古典城邦政治经验的借鉴。施密特的政治决断论认为“敌友之划分”是界定政治的标准,明显地对抗多元主义与自由主义的政治概念。阿伦特的公民行动理论则彰显了政治自由和平等的概念以及在公共空间中言与行的共享意涵,蕴含了“参与式民主”的元素。但二者均肯定政治的极端重要性,构筑政治概念的绝对化倾向,遵循现代性的“分离原则”,对现代政治行为和政治思想都具有重大的现实意义。     

Risk communication and citizen engagement: what to expect from dialogue

Despite the last few decades’ devotion to deliberative methods in risk communication, many studies point to how important challenges arise when citizens are engaged in public dialogue. Since the era of enlightenment public dialogue has occupied a position as a normative ideal for political governance. But ideals are social constructions that have a tendency to direct attention away from underlying conflicts. The concept of dialogue is no exception, and exemplified by the Danish solution to dealing with public scepticism in relation to technological controversies, the internationally acclaimed ‘consensus conference’, the paper seeks to offer a better understanding of the contemporary use of the concept of dialogue as well as its ancient roots. The paper argues that behind the aspirations for deliberation lie two opposing models of dialogue. When these two models encounter in deliberative processes, their different presumptions about the role of communication symmetry are likely to appear. This points to how the models hold very different expectations as to the dialogical outcome, thus imposing some fundamental conflicts regarding the political efficacy of citizen engagement as a strategy for bridging the gap between expert and lay attitudes to societal risks.