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    The New Legal Pluralism

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    Scholars studying interactions among multiple communities have often used the term legal pluralism to describe the inevitable intermingling of normative systems that results from these interactions. In recent years, a new application of pluralist insights has emerged in the international and transnational realm. This review aims to survey and help deïŹne this emerging ïŹeld of global legal pluralism. I begin by brieïŹ‚y describing sites for pluralism research, both old and new. Then I discuss how pluralism has come to be seen as an attractive analytical framework for those interested in studying law on the world stage. Finally, I identify advantages of a pluralist approach and respond to criticisms, and I suggest ways in which pluralism can help both in reframing old conceptual debates and in generating useful normative insights for designing procedural mechanisms, institutions, and discursive practices for managing hybrid legal/cultural spaces

    Clinician's Commentary on McGowan et al.

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    Selective and nonselective inhibition of competitors in picture naming

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    Contains fulltext : 121634.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)The present study examined the relation between nonselective inhibition and selective inhibition in picture naming performance. Nonselective inhibition refers to the ability to suppress any unwanted response, whereas selective inhibition refers to the ability to suppress specific competing responses. The degree of competition in picture naming was manipulated by presenting targets along with distractor words that could be semantically related (e.g., a picture of a dog combined with the word cat) or unrelated (tree) to the picture name. The mean naming response time (RT) was longer in the related than in the unrelated condition, reflecting semantic interference. Delta plot analyses showed that participants with small mean semantic interference effects employed selective inhibition more effectively than did participants with larger semantic interference effects. The participants were also tested on the stop-signal task, which taps nonselective inhibition. Their performance on this task was correlated with their mean naming RT but, importantly, not with the selective inhibition indexed by the delta plot analyses and the magnitude of the semantic interference effect. These results indicate that nonselective inhibition ability and selective inhibition of competitors in picture naming are separable to some extent

    Evaluating Service Leadership Programs with Multiple Strategies

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    Despite the growing numbers of leadership programs, little is known about the effectiveness of such programs. In view of this, evaluation research is integrated into the implementation of service leadership programs at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). In this chapter, evaluation methods based on objective outcome evaluation, subjective outcome evaluation, process evaluation, and qualitative evaluation are outlined. The findings of evaluation research adopting these methods are reported to show the effectiveness of service leadership programs at PolyU. Overall, results indicate that service leadership programs at PolyU have a beneficial impact for students.Department of Applied Social Science
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