NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR: A META‐ANALYSIS*

A meta‐analysis was performed to quantify the association between antisocial behavior (ASB) and performance on neuropsychological executive functioning (EF) measures. This meta‐analysis built on Morgan and Lilienfeld's (2000) meta‐analysis of the same topic by including recently published studies and by examining a wider range of EF measures. A total of 126 studies involving 14,786 participants were included in the analyses. Antisocial groups performed significantly worse on measures of EF compared with controls, with a grand mean effect size of d= .44. Significant variation occurred in the magnitude of effect sizes calculated across studies. The largest effect sizes were found for criminality (d= .61) and externalizing behavior disorder (d= .54) ASB groups, whereas the smallest effect sizes were found for antisocial personality disorder (d= .19) groups. Larger differences in EF performance were observed across studies involving participants from correctional settings and with comorbid attention deficit and hyperactivity problems. Overall, the results indicated that a robust association exists between ASB and poor EF that held across studies with varied methodological approaches. The methodological issues in the research literature and the implications of the meta‐analysis results are discussed, and the directions for future research are proposed.     

Challenging Executive Dominance in European Democracy

Executive dominance in the contemporary EU is part of a wider migration of executive power towards types of decision making that eschew electoral accountability and popular democratic control. This democratic gap is fed by far‐going secrecy arrangements and practices exercised in a concerted fashion by the various executive actors at different levels of governance and resulting in the blacking out of crucial information and documents – even for parliaments. Beyond a deconstruction exercise on the nature and location of EU executive power and secretive working practices, this article focuses on the challenges facing parliaments in particular. It seeks to reconstruct a more pro‐active and networked role of parliaments – both national and European – as countervailing power. In this vision parliaments must assert themselves in a manner that is true to their role in the political system and that is not dictated by government at any level.     

影响企业执行力的因素及对策

企业的执行力影响着企业的生存和效益,提升执行力是企业的一个持久的话题。市场竞争残酷无情,企业要发展、要提升效益既要靠管理者的科学决策,又要靠决策的有效执行。好的执行力,可以使上下同欲、政令畅通,是企业兴旺发达的必由之路。企业要建立一种切实可行的执行文化,并通过领导者的身体力行,带动员工做好企业工作,使企业执行力成为企业持久的发展动力。     

问责制执行力的影响因素分析——来自香港的经验与启示

执行力是问责制的生命,执行力的高低决定了问责制的作用效果。问责制的执行力与问责制本身的科学性、配套制度的契合度、问责制的执行环境三大因素紧密相关。香港在高官问责制执行力建设方面积累了丰富的经验,问责对象明确,问责主体多元,能及时完善配套制度,形成了浓厚的“问责文化”。这些对提高内地问责制执行力都有重要的启示：必须进行系统的制度创新,实现权责对等,增强人大、司法、媒体的外部问责,建立科学的绩效考评制度,推进政府信息公开,提高官员的法治意识和社会的法治水平。     

我国行政问责制的缺陷与完善

目前,我国的行政问责制度建设在理论和实践中都取得了一定的成效,但从整体来看,行政问责制的研究还处于初级阶段,行政问责法制建设还存在行政问责法律体系不健全、行政问责主体缺位、行政问责客体狭窄、行政问责程序不统一等缺陷.针对这些缺陷和问题,笔者提出了完善行政问责制的措施:构建统一的行政责任法、明确行政问责主体、规范行政问责...     

China's Outbound Investment Benefits the World

正THE steady growth of China’s outbound investment since the turn of the new millennium has generated mixed responses to Chinese capital.A main point of media focus,it has been both welcomed and called into question.To put China’s outbound investment in perspective,China Today held an exclu sive interview with He Zhenwei,executive deputy secretary-general of China Over seas Development Association.     

提高领导干部行政执行力问题研究——以吉林省为视角

行政执行力是政府权力有效运行的重要保证,而领导干部的行政执行力直接关乎着政府的行政执行力。因此,提高领导干部的行政执行力是提高政府效能的迫切要求。对于吉林省而言,领导干部行政执行力的高低决定着老工业基地振兴的成败。所以,提高各级政府和领导干部的行政执行力,确保中央政策和吉林省发展战略准确有效的执行,是吉林省政府自身建设的重中之重。     

和谐社会建设的关键：提高行政权的亲和力

党的十六届四中全会做出了建设和谐社会的决定,全国人大十届三次会议作了进一步要求。建设和谐社会,是个系统工程,要从各方面推进。行政权,是强大的力量,在建设和谐社会中理应发挥重要的作用。但长期以来,人们过分关注、强调了行政权的强制力,而忽视了其亲和力。文章通过对行政权的考察,认为亲和力是行政权的本质特征,在行政权中起主导作用,以此为基础,对行政权亲和力的实现途径及在建设和谐社会中的作用初步的阐述。     

论单位犯罪的直接责任人员

单位犯罪直接负责的主管人员,应当同时符合直接责任条件和主管人员身份条件。单位犯罪其他直接责任人员,是指积极地直接实施单位犯罪行为并对单位犯罪起主要作用的单位成员。《刑法》第31条实际上是否定所有单位犯罪部分行为人承担刑事责任的排除规则。     

重整我国的行政诉讼类型制度

我国立法上没有规定行政诉讼类型,而实践中存在的诉讼类型具有明显的缺陷。重整我国的行政诉讼类型,在立法上应设立六种行政诉讼类型,并运用拓展原告起诉资格的方法解决社会公益诉讼问题,运用行政附带民事诉讼方法解决民事、行政交叉案件。