Treatment format and external validity in international relations experiments

Political scientists use short vignettes or mock news stories to embed treatments in experimental survey designs. We investigate whether the choice of format entails a trade off between internal and external validity. On the one hand, short vignettes may improve internal validity by isolating key variables without overloading respondents with information, thereby mitigating satisficing and improving data quality. On the other hand, mock news stories may improve external validity by approximating the circumstances under which individuals consume political information, which may enhance the credibility of the information. We find no evidence, however, that short vignettes mitigate satisficing more than mock news stories. Nor do we find that mock news stories enhance individual perceptions of the credibility of the information. Instead, we find that short vignettes are susceptible to confounding, which mock news story mitigate. These findings have important implications for debates about the use of survey experiments in political science.     

Empirical study on the influence of organizational learning and capability on technological mnovanon

Based upon the generalization of those theories in organizational learning, organizational capability and technological innovation, the essay discusses the influence of organizational learning and capability in technological innovation, and presents its relevant hypotheses. On analyzing the effective sample data from 682 enterprises of different industries across 10 provinces and cities in China, the empirical results reveal that external learning is in favor of enterprises to cultivate dynamic capability but to disfavor in improving the existing operational capability, internal learning benefits enterprises to improve the existing operational capability but to disbenefit in cultivating dynamic capability, dynamic capability has a positive impact on operational capability, dynamic capability has significantly positive correlation with product innovation and process innovation, while operational capability has only evidently positive correlation with product innovation.     

Diffusion of Corporate Risk‐Management Characteristics: Perspectives of Chief Audit Executives through a Survey Approach

This study examines how corporate risk‐management characteristics in Australian public universities have diffused under an environment of conflicting management cultures. The findings reveal that corporate risk‐management characteristics have diffused in a pluralist form to satisfy stakeholders of different management approaches across its governance levels as opposed to a unilateral form aligned to the corporate approach. The accepted practice of this adapted version challenges the existing notion that the adoption of corporate control processes in the public sector is problematic, and provides insights into the emergence of a hybrid control process to address the needs of multiple stakeholders. These findings have policy implications for defining a new hybrid governance‐control paradigm for the public sector as an alternative to the corporate‐influenced control paradigm, and provide avenues for further research to confirm the phenomenon with other corporate control processes, public‐sector entities, and if so its impact on effective governance.     

Audit for Accountability in China: An Incomplete Mission

This article argues against the conventional wisdom that accountability is the raison d'être of auditing activities. Audit, admittedly, is a part of the accountability architecture as it contributes to the financial health of a government and the effective management of public money. This does not mean, however, that audit necessarily generates accountability. China's experience with establishing a power audit regime shows that without enabling goals, impartial structural arrangements, and effective procedures, auditing for accountability only remains an incomplete mission.     

司法会计检查方法在办理商业贿赂案件中的运用

商业贿赂案件资金具有来源渠道复杂,名目繁多,有别于小金库等特征。司法会计检查是办理商业贿赂案件时收集财务会计资料证据的重要手段。常用的司法会计检查方法有:审阅法、核对法、计算分析法、询证法、疑点检查法。     

单位内设机构犯罪主体资格刍议

单位内设机构是否具有犯罪主体资格,首先要准确地把握单位犯罪的概念及其特征,明确单位犯罪主体刑事责任能力对认定主体资格的意义,同时由于受罚主体范围的不同,内设机构的犯罪主体资格也不尽相同。     

浅议儒家思想的内在和谐及其现实意义

儒家倡导君子成大事必先修其身，修身则要注重个人内在的精神追求、道德修养、人格魅力、价值取向。在构建社会主义和谐社会中，传承儒家思想的内在和谐依然有十分重要的意义。     

我国上市公司内部监督机制模式的再思考

关于上市公司内部监督机制问题,学界历来有各种主张,目前我国立法现实情况采用的是独立董事与监事会并行制度,但从运行实际效果看并不十分理想。独立董事制度与监事会制度是不同国家基于不同法律理念所创制的不同的公司内部监督制度,通过比较分析这两种制度,提出一些思考。     

行政自制与中国行政法治发展

行政自制作为行政法治发展的路径之一，既与宪政和外部行政法的前提和框架作用密不可分，也是行政自组织的必然结果。行政国家的权能扩张已经使立法机关的事前控制和司法审查的事后控制力不从心，除了加快宪政和外部行政法建设之外，完善内部行政法，通过行政自制弥补外部行政法的功能性不足，以此推进中国行政法治发展，是一条必要的、有益的、有效的路径。     

推进法制建设，加速改革我国政府审计模式

本文论述了世界各国政府审计的发展模式和特点以及我国政府审计模式的现状,分析了改革我国政府审计模式的动因、社会条件与法律基础,提出了我国政府审计模式的改革思路:强化垂直管理系统;建立以审计为主体的监督制约机制;形成预防为主的宏观监督调控体系。