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Es geht um den Zusammenhang zwischen wissenschaftlichen Forschungsansätzen, deren Leistungen und den vergleichenden Bewertungen derselben. Manche Leistungsmaße (z.B. wirtschaftliche Verwertbarkeit, Publikationsanzahl, Zitationsindex) sind so beschaffen, dass mit ihnen bestimmte Forschungsansätze systematisch bevor- bzw. benachteilt werden. Dies ergibt sich schlicht aus den strukturellen Eigenarten der jeweiligen Ansätze. In der Psychologie heißt dies, dass z.B. biopsychologische Forschungsansätze gegenüber z.B. kulturpsychologischen klar bevorteilt werden, wenn derzeit gebräuchliche Evaluationsmaße verbindlich werden. Statt Erkenntnisqualitäten werden dann Erkenntnismodi bewertet, mit a priori absehbarem Ergebnis. Vergleichende Evaluationen geraten in die Nähe pseudo-empirischer Unternehmungen. Wenn diese Evaluationspraxis um sich greift und wenn deren Ergebnisse wissenschaftspolitische Entscheidungen lenken, dann führt dies in der Psychologie zu einer starken Engführung ihres Erkenntnisfeldes. Dies hat massive Kompetenzverluste zur Folge, verbunden mit wichtigen berufspolitischen Konsequenzen.

AbstractThis paper investigates the Confucian conception of political responsibility as a political virtue essential for an ordinary non-Confucian ruler's actualization of humane government by paying close attention to the early Confucian discourses of Heaven and disaster. After briefly discussing Confucius's seminal idea of responsibility, this paper shows how Mencius developed the political conception of responsibility, as a noncausal responsibility shared by the ruler and the virtuous ministers for a humane government, especially under the condition of natural disasters. It then discusses how the Han Confucian philosopher Dong Zhongshu reformulated the Mencian theory of responsibility and humane government under radically altered political circumstances by advancing a new version of Confucianism, central to which is the causal conception of political responsibility. This paper concludes by discussing how the evolution of Confucian political theory from Mencius to Dong Zhongshu should be understood with a view to the question of political legitimacy.

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In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, law enforcement in the United States began to employ powers and tactics that infringe upon the civil liberties of the suspects that they targeted. Though some of these uses have been challenged and reversed in the courts, there is still a portion of the population that believes that tactics like these, even up to torture, have been justified to combat terrorism. This study seeks to use General Social Survey data about people's views of the use of expanded police and surveillance powers to combat terrorism to compare these with people's age, sex, race, education, political ideology, and trust in different branches of the government. This will improve our understanding of who puts more emphasis on security over civil liberties when it comes to terrorist suspects. Through this analysis, it is found that political ideology was not as important as was thought in the literature. It was found that confidence in the military was the strongest indicator of people favoring policies that expanded surveillance and gave increased power to go after terrorist suspects.

A book review of Racism in American Public Life: A Call to Action, by Johnnetta Betsch Cole, University of Virginia Press, 2021. 152 pp. $19.95 ; Accepted version

According to Max Weber's ideal type analysis methodology, citizen dishonesty in contemporary Chinese society can be classified into two types: one by ordinary citizens and the other by public figures. Ordinary citizens' dishonesty leads to a magnified adverse effect of "bad money drives out good" and deconstructs the social credit system. Meanwhile, public figures' dishonesty not only damages society's interests but also degrades people's sense of identity with social ethics, triggering ethics and trust crises. In contemporary China, citizen dishonesty is the result of the transformation from a traditional acquaintance society to a modern stranger society as well as the transformation from a planned economy to a market economy. Establishing and improving a System of Joint Incentive for Honesty and Joint Punishment for Dishonesty is a Chinese solution to citizen dishonesty in contemporary China from the perspective of institutional innovation.

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