中国维和警察防暴队开展群众工作之我见

中国维和警察防暴队在维和任务区开展群众工作,是维护当地局势稳定和执行联合国宪章的需要。应本着尊重当地民风民俗的原则,从做好宣传工作入手,传播进步、文明的生活方式,严格遵守群众纪律,爱护当地民众的财产,维护当地民众的利益。     

Public opinion: A powerful predictor of U.S. defense spending

Public opinion survey responses regarding the desirability of changes in defense spending can be compressed into a single variable, the public opinion balance, which, when accompanied by a control variable measuring the proportion of responses in the “residuum” (no opinion or keep the status quo), permits an accurate prediction of subsequent changes in the rate of change of U.S. defense outlays from the mid‐1960s through the 1980s. This finding cannot be interpreted as a simple case of “the public got what it wanted,” however, because public opinion was not autonomous or spontaneous, and defense decision makers themselves played a central role in shaping public opinion.     

Sweden and the issue of NATO membership: exploring a public opinion paradox

The past decade has seen substantial shifts in Swedish security policy and major change in the domestic debate about NATO. For the first time, all of the right-of-centre “alliance parties” are calling for a full NATO membership, and popular support for NATO has increased. Yet public opinion contains ambiguities and paradoxes that complicate the picture. At the same time as support for NATO has increased, the public is overwhelmingly for continued military non-alignment. Drawing on previous research, longitudinal data from national surveys, and other sources on defence and security issues, this article aims to increase our understanding of the development and change in Swedish public opinion on NATO. A key argument is that Erving Goffman’s theatre metaphor, combined with neo-institutional decoupling theory, to a large degree can help understand the public opinion paradox.     

群体专家按轮讨论与自由讨论的观点动力学演化比较

针对群体专家在集体讨论中的按轮讨论和自由讨论的观点动力学演化过程,采用计算机仿真实验的方法对两种模型结果进行了分析和比较。统计结果表明在相同的初始条件下,自由讨论模型采用权威专家优先,然后按观点累积变化最大者优先的发言顺序规则生成的平均观点簇数更少,并且发现15轮以后的讨论发言对各项指标改进的影响作用不大。由于自由讨论是依次串行发言,发言时间效率较低,因此实际讨论方式选择时,当人数较少,时间充裕时,宜采用自由讨论的方式,反之则宜采用按轮讨论的方式。     

Pakistani Political Communication and Public Opinion on US Drone Attacks

Conventional wisdom holds that Pakistanis are overwhelmingly opposed to American drone strikes in their country’s tribal areas and that this opposition is driven by mass media coverage of the loss of life and property the strikes purportedly cause. Using an approach based in the literature in political communication and public opinion, we argue this conventional wisdom is largely inaccurate. Instead, we contend that awareness of drone strikes will be limited because Pakistan is a poor country with low educational attainment, high rates of illiteracy and persistent infrastructure problems that limit access to mass media. Moreover, because of these same country characteristics, Pakistanis’ beliefs about drone strikes will be shaped primarily by informal, face-to-face political communication, rather than through more formal media sources. We test this argument using data that we collected by fielding a 7,656 respondent, nationally-representative survey carried out in Pakistan in 2013. The results of the statistical analysis support our arguments.     

The interrelationship between defence spending,public expenditures and economic growth: evidence from China

This study examines the relationship between defence spending, other components of public spending and economic growth for the 1952–2012 period in China using Granger causality tests and generalised impulse response functions based on vector error correction models. The empirical results reveal two long-run equilibrium relationships among the variables and also show that defence spending inversely and unidirectionally Granger impacts economic growth. Furthermore, empirical findings point to a trade-off relationship between defence spending and public expenditures in China. From a policy maker’s perspective, the findings reported herein imply that a decrease in defence spending may stimulate economic growth.     

网民心理视角下的网络舆情引导机制研究

在网络舆情频发的社会背景下,加强网民心理的分析和研究是完善网络舆情引导的重要举措。通过列举几种网民心理的类型,分析在这些心理的作用下网民在网络舆情中的行为表现。从网民心理疏导的角度出发,从引导主体、引导机制和引导渠道三个方面考虑,解决基于网民心理的网络舆情引导问题,为政府应对网络舆情事件提供理论支撑。     

ARE USA CITIZENS AT RISK OF TERRORISM IN EUROPE?

This paper analyzes the determinants of the probability of US citizens being victims of terrorist attacks in European countries, taking into account uncontrolled heterogeneity of the data. The analysis employs ITERATE data from February 1968 to December 2002 to ascertain significant characteristics that influence the probability (e.g. location, type of casualties, type of attack, and type of terrorists). To deal with the unobserved heterogeneity a random‐parameter logit model (mixed logit) is used. Some policy implications are presented.