杰克·格雷:毛泽东与中国发展的政治经济学

"毛泽东与当代中国"是一个仍需学界进一步言说的严肃话题。本刊本期推出的三篇文章,属于对关于毛泽东的同一个问题的争论。显然,作者之间是有着十分不同的视角的,其所依据的资料也并非完全准确可靠,所持有的许多观点更非我们所认同,甚至某些是我们所反对的。但从总体上看,文章均属学术研究的范畴。把它们介绍给读者,目的在于为国内学者的研究提供不同的学术资源。相信读者对其观点是能够加以判别与鉴定的。     

Government E‐Recruiting Web Sites: The influence of e‐recruitment content and usability on recruiting and hiring outcomes in US state governments

This research examines both the content and usability of e‐recruiting web sites on a government's ability to attract individuals to apply for government positions and on government's ability to retain new hires. Building on previous studies evaluating corporate recruiting web pages, this study evaluates the e‐recruiting efforts of state governments in the United States. Our study shows that governments with more usable hiring web site receive significantly more applications per job opening; whereas states with higher quality content on their recruiting web pages have significantly less voluntary turnover of new hires.     

Transforming Better Babies into Fitter Families: archival resources and the history of American eugenics movement, 1908-1930

In the early 1920s, determinist conceptions of biology helped to transform Better Babies contest into Fitter Families competitions with a strong commitment to controlled human breeding. While the earlier competitions were concerned for physical and mental standards, the latter contests collected data on a broad range of presumed hereditary characters. The complex behaviors thought to be determined by one's heredity included being generous, jealous, and cruel. In today's context, the popular media often interpret advances in molecular genetics in a similarly reductive and determinist fashion. This paper argues that such a narrow interpretation of contemporary biology unnecessarily constrains the public in developing social policies concerning complex social behavior ranging from crime to intelligence.