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Muratorio, Jorge Ignacio. "Design and Regulatory Institutionality in Argentine Law." Derecho & Sociedad, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118393.
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The present article describe us an overview of regulatory law, his function and thecharacteristics that it should present to achieve the goal of improve some relevant economic activities for the needs of the society. After that, the author will describe us the present situation of regulation on Argentinian law.El presente artículo nos describe un panorama del derecho regulatorio, su función y las características que debe poseer, para cumplir su fin de optimizar actividades económicas que importen al bienestar de la sociedad. Luego de ello, pasa a describirnos el actual panorama del derecho regulatorio en Argentina.
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Seifert, Bonifaz Manuel. "Party volatility in Peru: Rethinking democratic institutionality." Politai, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/92178.
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This article presents a contribution to the approach when with political parties at the sub-national level. After the political parties crisis of 1989-1993 the Peruvian political system was reconfigured. Within this framework, regional and municipal elections were held (2002-2014) and showed how regional movements became hegemonic electoral actors at the subnational level. However, these elections also exhibited a high party volatility, both for regional and national parties. Thus, the present work seeks to rethink our approach to the Peruvian party system and democratic institutionality, assuming that instability is its essential characteristic and, from this, to understand democratic consolidation under this scenario.Este artículo presenta un aporte a la manera de abordar la problemática de los partidos políticos a escala sub-nacional. Luego de la crisis partidaria de 1989 -1993, se reconfiguró el sistema político peruano. En este marco, se desarrollaron las elecciones regionales y municipales (2002-2014), que mostraron cómo los movimientos regionales se volvieron actores hegemónicos electorales en el ámbito subnacional. Sin embargo, estas elecciones también exhibieron una alta volatilidad partidaria, tanto en los partidos nacionales como en los regionales. Así, el presente trabajo busca repensar nuestro acercamiento al sistema de partidos peruanos y la institucionalidad democrática, asumiendo que la inestabilidad es su característica esencial y, a partir de ello, comprender la consolidación democrática desde este escenario.
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Osvaldsson, Karin. "Talking trouble : institutionality and identity in a youth detention home /." Linköping : Univ. : Tema Barn, Univ. [distributör], 2002. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2002/arts263s.pdf.
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Parker, James. "Spirited away: institutionality, the IRB and the case of Maliny Victoria Jesurasa." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18731.
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This thesis takes the case file of a Sri Lankan asylum seeker found in the archives at the Federal Court of Montreal in March of 2007 and submits it to a textual analysis. In so doing it operates on three levels. First, it elaborates something of the life of this person, the trials she faced both in Sri Lanka and Canada. Second, and most significantly, it observes the effect of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on the telling of her story, its particular adjudicatory techniques. It is concerned with how this particular institution 'thinks'. Third and finally, it gestures at some possible implications of this analysis in jurisprudential terms. At its most abstract this thesis argues that institutionality is a key feature of the adjudicatory project which is too frequently overlooked.Cette thèse est centrée sur le dossier d'une réfugiée Sri Lankaise, qui a été trouvé dans les archives de la cour fédérale de Montréal en Mars 2007 et fait ici l'objet d'une analyse de texte. Trois points ont été dégagés par cette analyse. Premièrement, celle-ci décrit quelques points de la vie de cette personne et les problèmes qu'elle a rencontré au Sri Lanka et au Canada. Deuxièmement, cela décrit l'influence du Commissariat de l'immigration de du statut de réfugié du Canada sur la manière dont son histoire est narrée, ainsi que les techniques juridiques de ce commissariat. Troisièmement, ce travail envisage les implications possibles de ce cas sur la théorie du droit. Au niveau le plus abstrait, cette thèse argumente le fait que l'institutionnalisme est un trait important dans les processus juridiques et qu'il est trop souvent négligé.
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Harris, Mark Andrew. "Towards a theandric ecclesiology : the relation of pneumatology and institutionality in the Church." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610674.
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Furnica, Pascu. "Civil-military relations in European security institutions -- challenges of multi-institutionality in peace operations." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FFurnica.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Civil-Military Relations))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.Thesis Advisor(s): Thomas Bruneau, Karen Guttieri. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-93). Also available in print.
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Carrillo, Rowe Aimee. "Troubling alliances under the sign of feminism : whiteness, institutionality and relationality in the postcolonial academy /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8194.
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VIEIRA, MARIA CECILIA BARCELOS C. "THE WTO AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT ON THE INSTITUTIONALITY OF THE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT MECHANISM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11655@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO trabalho analisa a institucionalidade do mecanismo de solução de controvérsias da OMC por meio de análise empírica dos 336 casos que passaram pelo mecanismo nos seuz dez primeiros anos de funcionamento (1995-2005). Os casos são divididos em cinco categorias - (1) em desenvolvimento vs em desenvolvimento; (2) desenvolvidos vs desenvolvidos; (3) desenvolvidos vs em desenvolvimento; (4) em desenvolvimento vs desenvolvidos; (5) mistos - observando-se padrões de resolução. O objetivo é verificar se os países em desenvolvimento são capazes de se beneficiar do uso do mecanismo, colhendo os frutos da ordem liberal de comércio. O regime de comércio internacional deveria servir a países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento do mesmo modo, mas assimetrias políticas e econômicas podem interferir, permitindo que os mais poderosos influenciem resultados, agindo em benefício próprio. O quadro teórico é marcado pela discussão entre realismo e neoliberalismo sobre o papel das instituições - instrumento dos mais poderosos ou ferramentas coletivas que permitem ganhos mútuos para seus membros e, ainda, em que medida questões distributivas são importantes.
The work seeks to assess the institutionality of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism through an empirical analysis of the 336 cases filed in its first ten years in practice (1995-2005). The cases are broke down into five categories of disputes - (1) developing vs developing; (2) developed vs developed; (3) developed vs developing; (4) developing vs developed; (5) and mixed - as patterns of dispute resolution are brought into light. The aim is to verify if developing countries are able to benefit from the mechanism, ultimately reaping the benefits of a liberal world trade order. The international trade regime is supposed to work for developed and developing countries alike but in a world of political and economical asymmetries, issues of power may interfere, allowing actors to influence dispute outcomes in the service of private interests. The theoretical background is provided by questions arising from the debate between realism and neo- liberalism about the role of institutions - a sheer instrument for the powerful or collective tools that allow mutual gains for their members, and also, just how important are distributional issues in this scenario.
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Moxham, Noah. "Making it official : experiments in institutionality and the employees and publications of the Royal Society, 1675-1705." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610974.
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Фещенко, О. В. "Інституціональність дискурсу як лінгвістична та перекладознавча проблема." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17548.
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Meirelles, Luize Pinheiro. "Reputação organizacional e nova institucionalidade do IFBA." Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2014. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/17358.
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Esta pesquisa qualitativa, com abordagem metodológica de estudo de caso, tem a finalidade de examinar a reputação organizacional do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia (IFBA), a partir das dimensões da nova institucionalidade, através da perspectiva dos gestores. Para tanto, considera-se o conceito de reputação organizacional como uma imagem organizacional mais consolidada ao longo do tempo, resultado de repetidas interações e experiências acumuladas entre a organização e seus stakeholders e, por isso, com um vínculo difícil de ser rompido. Como corte temporal, estabeleceu-se o período a partir de 2008, uma vez que representou a transformação dos Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica (Cefets) em Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia (IFs) pela Lei nº 11.892, de 29 de dezembro de 2008. As técnicas de pesquisa utilizadas para viabilizar a triangulação das informações mapeadas foram análise de documentos, observação participante e entrevista, esta última fundamentada pelo Método de Configuração de Imagem Organizacional, de Schuler (2004). A análise de documentos resultou na definição do conceito de nova institucionalidade e suas dimensões. Já a observação participante e a entrevista permitiram identificar os atributos que compõem a percepção da reputação organizacional do IFBA. Foram utilizadas 18 entrevistas de gestores, nos cargos de reitor, pró-reitores e diretores gerais dos campi. A estratégia de análise que possibilitou trabalhar estas diferentes técnicas de pesquisa foi a análise de conteúdo, com o suporte do software Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Os resultados obtidos revelaram que a percepção sobre a nova institucionalidade do IFBA está em transição, com a presença simultânea de características do passado e relacionadas ao perfil mais atual. A pesquisa mostrou ainda que os gestores possuem papel relevante nesta transformação para a nova institucionalidade, bem como ainda são influenciados pela reputação organizacional vinculada à antiga institucionalidade. This qualitative research, based on a case study methodological approach, has as its objective the examination of the corporate reputation of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia (IFBA), taking as a starting point the dimensions of the new institutionality, from the perspective of the managers. For this purpose, we consider the concept of corporate reputation as a corporate image that has been consolidated over time, as the result of many interactions and experiences accumulated between the organization and its stakeholders, which resulted in a link that became difficult to be broken. We established the period of research from 2008 on, since it represented the transformation of the Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica da Bahia (Cefets) into Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia (IFs), according to Federal Law 11.892, dated December 29th, 2008. The research techniques used to triangulate the mapped information were documentary analysis, active observation and interview, this last one based on Schuler’s Method for Organizational Image Configuration (2004). The result of the documentary analysis was the definition of the new institutionality concept, as well as its dimensions. The active observation and interview steps allowed the identification of the attributes that constituted the perception of IFBA’s corporate reputation. We used a total of 18 interviews, made with managers in the posts of rector, pro-rectors and directors of the campi. The analysis strategy that allowed the usage of these different research techniques was the content analysis, developed with the aid of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 software. The results revealed that the perception about IFBA’s new institutionality is changing, but we notice that, simultaneously, there is the presence of some past characteristics associated to its current profile. The research has also shown that, at the same time managers have a relevant role in the transformation to the new institutionality, they
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Souza, Lenilza Alves Pereira. "EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA: INSTITUCIONALIDADE E COMPROMISSO SOCIAL." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2013. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/2172.
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Previous issue date: 2013-05-06This dissertation exposition the analysis of university extension, regarding the institutionality and social commitment, which enables the understanding of the extension as the practice of interlocutor actions that integrate the production and the systematization of knowledge to the learning process, as the locus of the inseparability between teaching, research and extension. The research identifies that the extension in Brazil presents several concepts and conceptions in its historical path in the context of higher education. After the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution and the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education - LDB 9.394-1996, the extension appears as an indispensable element of institutional identity. The research, carried out on university extension at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC Goiás), pioneers in the state of Goiás, and at Faculdade Mineirense (FAMA), a private institution in Goiás that is in its early years of operation, elucidates the historical trajectory of the institutions is conditioned by educational projects in effect or in edification; that they develop extension since the operating permit to the present day, contributing to local and regional development in their social function. The results obtained in the process investigated also demonstrate that the institutionalization of extension requires compliance with standards, criteria and theoretical references according to their purposes and their management, guided by the national curriculum guidelines. The analysis of the conceptual trajectory of the extension in Brazilian higher education, based on the connections between society and university, education and social practice, particularizes the consequences of this process in a period of societal transformations, especially in the relationship between the public and private sectors.
Esta dissertação mostra a análise da extensão universitária, no tocante à institucionalidade e ao compromisso social, o que possibilita a compreensão da extensão como prática de ações interlocutoras que integram a produção e a sistematização do conhecimento ao processo de aprendizagem, como lócus da indisssociabilidade entre ensino, pesquisa e extensão. A pesquisa identifica que a extensão no Brasil apresenta vários conceitos e concepções em sua trajetória histórica no contexto da educação superior. Após a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988 e da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação LDB Nº 9.394/1996 a extensão configura-se como um elemento indispensável da identidade institucional. A pesquisa desenvolvida sobre a extensão universitária na Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC Goiás), pioneiras no estado de Goiás, e na Faculdade Mineirense (Fama), instituição privada goiana que está nos seus primeiros anos de funcionamento, elucida que a trajetória histórica das Instituições está condicionada por projetos educacionais em vigência ou em edificação; que elas desenvolvem extensão desde sua autorização de funcionamento até os dias atuais, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento local e regional em sua função social. Os resultados obtidos no processo investigado demonstram também que a institucionalização da extensão requer consonância com normas, critérios e referenciais teóricas, de suas finalidades e suas gestões pautadas pelas diretrizes curriculares nacionais. A análise da trajetória conceitual da extensão na educação superior brasileira, com base nos nexos entre sociedade e universidade, educação e prática social, particulariza as consequências desse processo em um período de transformações societárias, sobretudo na relação público e privado.
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Burneo, Labrín José. "International Law on Human Rights contribution to constitutionalization of law after 1945." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116271.
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This article base line bears on the relevance of the process– developed after 1945– of law’s constitutionalization, its foundations established and main characteristics. This process is framed by HumanRights fully implementation, such as rejection of impunity concerning serious human rights violations, respect to due process, the integrality and indivisibility of human rights, also respect to indigenous people and limits to state of emergency. Finally, through reviewing laws for compliance, the author highlights the importance of jurisdictional bodies for an effective fulfillment of constitutional and supranational rules signed by the States.El artículo toma como punto de partida la relevancia del proceso de constitucionalización del derecho desarrollado luego de 1945, los fundamentos que consagra y sus principales características. Este proceso se enmarca en lavigencia de los derechos humanos que se enarbolan, como el rechazo a la impunidad respecto de violaciones graves de derechos humanos, el respeto al debido proceso, la integralidad de los derechos humanos, el respeto a los pueblos indígenas y los límites del Estado de excepción. Finalmente, mediante el análisis del control de convencionalidad, el autor resalta la importancia de los órganos jurisdiccionales en el efectivo cumplimiento de las normas constitucionales y supranacionales suscritas por los Estados.
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Alves, Maria Abadia da Silva. "Espacialidades, escala e complexidade dos problemas metropolitanos : o caso da Região Metropolitana de Campinas (RMC)." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285419.
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Orientador: Carlos Antonio BrandãoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia
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Resumo: O objetivo desta tese é, inicialmente, identificar do ponto de vista teórico e analítico, o que é um problema metropolitano e quais as características, potencialidades e limitações da escala metropolitana de atuação política. O argumento desenvolvido é que há diferentes espacialidades das carências metropolitanas e que, portanto, estas podem ser tratadas sob diversos arranjos institucionais, que são, neste trabalho, exemplificados pelas experiências internacionais de gestão metropolitana em cinco países e outros arranjos não propriamente metropolitanos como os comitês de bacia, os pactos territoriais, os consórcios municipais e a contratualização inspirada no caso francês. Ou seja, buscar-se-á demonstrar que os problemas metropolitanos exigem escalas de atuação diferentes, que não se restringem apenas à escala metropolitana. A partir deste desdobramento analítico, analisaremos o caso específico da Região Metropolitana de Campinas, identificando as características e principais constrangimentos na gestão desta metrópole, a partir de duas dimensões distintas: uma política e institucional de ordem mais geral, que faz parte principalmente da estrutura federativa brasileira e outra mais específica, ligada à realidade regional, decorrente da características de sua institucionalidade recente. Também tomando o caso específico da RMC, selecionamos alguns problemas metropolitanos (Saneamento Ambiental, Transportes, Habitação e Segurança Pública), a partir dos quais discutiremos qual a interação escalar existente em cada uma dessas áreas de atuação. Realizaremos também um breve diagnóstico de cada um destes problemas bem como destacaremos as principais ações metropolitanas tentadas e implementadas recentemente
Abstract: The objective of this thesis is, initially, to identify from a theoretical and analytical perspective, what is a ¿Metropolitan Problem¿ and what are the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of the metropolitan action. The argument put forward is that there are different needs from the metropolitan areas that can be treated under different institutional arrangements, which are, in this work, exemplified by the experiences of international metropolitan government in five countries and other arrangements such as territorial pacts, consortia and municipal contracting based on the French case. We will demonstrate that the metropolitan problems require different scales of action, which are not restricted only to the metropolitan scale. From this analytical breakdown, we will review the specific case of the Campinas Metropolitan Area (CMA), identifying the characteristics and key constraints in managing this region, from two different dimensions: one political and institutional, which is part of the Brazilian federative structure, and other more specific, linked to regional reality, emerging from its recent institutionality. Also taking the specific case of CMA, we select some metropolitan problems (Environmental Sanitation, Transportation, Housing and Public Security), from which we discuss the interaction of different scales in each of these areas of expertise. Finally, we will make a brief diagnosis of each of these problems as well as the main metropolitan actions tried and implemented recently
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Desenvolvimento Economico, Espaço e Meio Ambiente
Doutor em Economia Aplicada
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Zhang, Chao. "EU-China environmental cooperation: an institutionalist study." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404724.
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The European Union is one of the earliest regions that commits to environmental
protection and is also the conventional leader of global environmental governance.
China is now in urgent need to govern environment and a key player in dealing with a
number of global environmental challenges, including climate change. Since 1981,
when the European Union and China began to contact in the field of environment,
environment has been rising on the agenda of their bilateral relations. In 1994, the
European Union and China established their first institution for environment. With the
support of institutions, their environmental cooperation has stepped into width and
depth. Today, environment is deeply involved in the Asia-Europe Meeting and the
Annual Summit between the European Union and China, and a number of sectoral
institutions on environmental policy, environmental technology, climate change, and
energy have been established. Meanwhile, a considerable number of environmental
projects have been implemented. The institutions do not only assist in the
implementation of environmental projects, but also result in new institutions and the
construction of the institutional architecture. However, they also experience some limits.
Due to the “low-politics” stance of environment in global politics, the European and
Chinese leaders are half-hearted to the practical operation of some of the institutions. In
addition, these institutions are also ineffective in dealing with issues with conflictual
interests involved, such as climate change and environmental technology transfer.
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Del, Percio Matteo. "Politics and Policy : A Historical Institutionalist Approach." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74952.
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Background:
Government institutions develop a country’s policies. One of the policies is that of taxation.
The aim of these policies should be to address public issues. However, there are instances
where the desired outcome to address these issues cannot be achieved.
Institutions such as key governing figures, the media and other interest groups have been
found to be a major agent of policy change. They can be the reason why countries follow
different policy paths. Historical institutionalism, as a framework, is needed to consider the
different social, economic and political influences that these institutions have on a country’s
policies.
Main purpose of study:
This study aims to analyse the relationship between a country’s political developments and
its policy changes through the use of historical institutionalism. Furthermore, this study also
seeks to uncover why similar countries follow differing policies.
Method:
This study follows an interpretivist approach, with a systematic review strategy. This study
is exploratory as it aims to uncover facts relevant to policy changes. As policy changes are
analysed at a specific point in time, this is a longitudinal study. The study’s unit of analysis
are the different articles reviewed which are analysed through inductive reasoning.
Results:
Path dependency and critical junctures are the most common features of historical
institutionalism. This reveals that past key events and decisions made by institutions
generally cause a country to take a specific policy path.
Developing countries’ policies are influenced by government's self-interest motives while
developed countries’ policies are influenced by democratic motives.
Historical institutionalism may explain why similar countries follow different policy paths. The
study finds that different institutions have diverse influences on each country’s policies.
Conclusions:
South Africa’s policies, specifically its taxation policies, are subjects of uncertainty. This
study finds that the use of historical institutionalism can be applied in studying South African
taxation policies. Furthermore, this framework may also be used to understand why South
Africa follows different policies to similar countries.Mini Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Ho, J. C. R. "Institutionally embedded venture capital : experience from Taiwan." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604099.
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This research investigates Taiwanese venture capital (VC) from the perspective of social institutions. In particular, we explore the influence of social institutions (e.g. VC firm position in the industry network and relational norms) on venture capitalist's contracting behaviours and entrepreneur-venture capitalist relationships. The distinctive features of this research, compared to previous work, highlight the understanding of: - How do Taiwanese VCs structure their investment contracts (i.e. investment tools and constraining covenants included in contracts?) What are the significant explanatory variables determining their choice of investment tools? - Do relational norms between entrepreneurial and VC firms have post-investment efficiency implications? - What are the significant factors promoting VC-backed entrepreneur cooperation? We conducted three questionnaire surveys in Taiwan. Results from the analysis show that: - Instead of convertible security, the main investment tool in Taiwan is common security. Experienced VCs or VC firms with higher centrality in the industry network tend to invest in common stock. Compared to previous works on VC contracts. Taiwanese contracts contain less constraining covenants and appear to be consistent with relational contracting theory. - Building relational norms facilitates conflict resolution and reduces negotiation costs between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, thus, enhancing VC post-investment efficiency. The process is partially mediated by the level of inter-organizational trust. - Entrepreneurs tend to cooperate with VC firms with higher degree centrality in the syndicated investment network. There is positive relation between relational norms and entrepreneur's propensity to cooperate. Overuse of constraining terms, however, undermines cooperative relationships.
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Mafassioli, Andréia da Silva. "Plano de ações articuladas : uma avaliação da implementação no município de Gravataí/RS." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/36403.
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Este estudo apresenta uma avaliação da implementação do Plano de Ações Articuladas (PAR), instrumento de ação da política pública Plano de Metas Compromisso Todos pela E-ducação, no Município de Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul. O objetivo geral foi analisar a im-plementação do PAR com foco na gestão da execução deste plano, abrangendo a instituciona-lidade e as práticas no sistema municipal de ensino e nas relações com a União. O marco teórico-metodológico abrangeu noções da análise de políticas públicas e de avaliação de políticas públicas e a metodologia do ciclo de políticas, pelo recurso à análise dos contextos de influência, produção de texto e de prática, a fim de caracterizar o local de pesquisa e os atores envolvidos na fase de implementação. Os fundamentos teóricos, embasa-dos pela teoria crítica, foram utilizados na perspectiva de realizar uma análise relacional, compreendendo a educação em seus contextos econômico, social e político. Os elementos de contexto que fazem parte do quadro institucional brasileiro, entre eles federalismo, a descentralização, o regime de colaboração e o financiamento da educação, bem como a descrição da origem, estrutura e organização do PAR no contexto da política Plano de Metas Compromisso Todos Pela Educação são caracterizados pela importância que têm no campo de análise do PDE/Plano de Metas/PAR. Foi abordada a construção histórica dos modelos de administração e de gestão da polí-tica educacional no Brasil, buscando complexificar a relação entre os modelos de gestão tec-nocráticos e verticalizados, herdados da estrutura de Estado brasileiro autoritário e patrimoni-alista, que se chocam com a democracia. A organização burocrática, no sentido weberiano, presente no setor público, é enfocada, assim como o modelo de gestão contemporâneo apre-sentado pelo novo gerencialismo também é problematizado. A gestão no sentido democrático é defendida como condição essencial para efetivação de políticas públicas em educação que almejem a qualidade social. A descrição dos contextos de influência, de produção de texto e de prática presentes no processo de formulação e de implementação do PAR de Gravataí foi elaborada com base em pesquisa de campo que envolveu consulta a documentos, depoimentos obtidos por meio da realização de entrevistas com atores diretamente envolvidos na elaboração do PAR e in-formações e apreciações oferecidas por dirigentes de escolas municipais. Os resultados do estudo indicam que a gestão da execução do PAR, em Gravataí, apre-senta vigores e fragilidades e ocorre de forma centralizada. Envolvem-se, mais diretamente, as instituições SMED, através de alguns setores que atuam desarticulados, Conselho Munici-pal de Educação e Sindicato dos Professores Municipais, lideranças do sistema municipal de ensino que tensionam para que o Plano seja colocado em prática. As escolas municipais têm pouco conhecimento e informações sobre o PAR e o acesso se dá através dos programas fede-rais, executados com limitações, devido às dificuldades do Poder Público em cumprir com a contrapartida. Entre os vigores destaca-se a aproximação da União frente à realidade da edu-cação municipal pelo aumento significativo na assistência financeira, através de programas que promovem mais inclusão social, ofertando tempos e espaços mais qualificados para o ensino e a aprendizagem.This study presents an evaluation on the implementation of the Articulate Actions Plan (PAR), which is an action instrument of the public policy: Plan of goals - Commitment of All for Education in Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul. The general objective was to analyze PAR implementation, focusing the management of the execution of this plan, including the institutionality and the practices in the municipal teaching system and in the relations with the Federal Government. The theoretical-methodological mark comprised notions of public policies analysis and of evaluation of public policies and the methodology of policies circle by analyzing the influence contexts, the production of text and the practice, in a way the researching place and the actors involved in the implementation phase were characterized. The theoretical funda-ments, based upon the criticism theory were used in the perspective of realizing a relational examination, comprehending the Education in its economical, social and political contexts. The context elements being part of the Brazilian institutional framework, among them federalism, the decentralization, the collaboration regimen and the Education financing, as well as the description of the origin, structure and organization of PAR in the context of the policy: Plan of goals - Commitment of All for Education, are characterized by the importance they have for the analysis field of PDE/Goals Plan/PAR. The historical construction of the administration and management models of the teaching policy in Brazil was approached, aiming to complexify the relation between the technocratic and vertical management models, inherited from the structure of authoritarian and patrimonialist Brazilian state, coming up against democracy. The bureaucratic organiza-tion, in the Weberian sense, existing in the public sector is focused and the present manage-ment model presented by the new managerialism is also problematized. The management in the democratic sense is defended as an essential condition for the effectuation of public poli-cies in Education aiming the social quality. The description of the influence contexts, of text production and of practice existing in the process of PAR formulation and implementation in Gravataí was elaborated based upon field research, documental analysis, testimonies obtained by the realization of interviews with actors directly involved in the elaboration of PAR and information and appreciations offered by principals of municipal schools. The study results indicate that PAR management execution in Gravataí present strengths and weaknesses, occurring in a centralized way. The more directly involved ones are the institutions: SMED, through some sectors acting disconnectedly, Council of Munici-pal Education and Municipal Syndicate of Teachers, leaders of the municipal teaching sys-tem, working in a way the plan is put into practice. The municipal schools have little know-ledge and information about PAR and the access happens through federal programs, executed with limitations, due to the difficulties of the public power to comply with the counterpart. Among the strengths, it is highlighted the approximation of the Federal Government towards the reality of the municipal Education by the significant increase of financial assistance, through programs promoting social inclusion, offering more qualified time and space for teaching and learning.
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Dube, Zenzo Lusaba. "The London Stock Exchange : a new institutionalist analysis." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496063.
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This thesis addresses the historical reasons for how and why the London Stock. Exchange (LSE) has survived over 200 years as one of the world's leading exchange markets. The LSE has firmly ensconced itself in the United Kingdom's economy such that it is now synonymous with the City of London, the "very hub and engine of the UK's economy. Indeed, the study investigates why the LSE encapsulates a living history relating not only to the past bllt also the present and future. Why has it persisted with time? To answer these qllestions the thesis draws upon the three schools of new institutionalism, namely : rational choice; sociological and historical through the critical theory paradigm of inquiry and hermeneutics. All three schools of thought seek to explain how institutions behave, and to explain institutional change and how institutional actors behave. Hermeneutics forms a mutual synthesis for understanding and a bridge between past and present through an engaged dialectic (or fusion of horizons). The 1986 'Big Bang' brought forth the biggest reforms in the LSE's history. The reforms opened the doors to the public, of an institution that had been a private gentlemen's club for over one hundred and eighty-five years. Due to the boom that followed, the LSE lost control of its markets and numerous corporate scandals followed. Thee LSE has already lost most of its powers to the FSA. Furthermore the LSE's global dominance over international securities is now under threat from the NYSE-Euronext merger. NASDAQ has raised its stake in LSE to 28.75% to make it its biggest shareholder. A takeover or merger with NASDAQ seems inevitable. What then is the future for the LSE? This thesis argues that through a study of the LSI's past one can understand its present circumstances and to a certain extent its future. The LSE is after all a living history.
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Walls, M. J. "State formation in Somaliland : bringing deliberation to institutionalism." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1302550/.
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There is and has long been great debate over the means and motivations necessary for societal organisation, and most particularly in relation to the establishment and maintenance of governance systems in the context of the nation state. One of the key fault-lines in this discourse lies in the role played by the individual against that of the collective. At the centre of the argument lies a disagreement on conceptions of justice and how these relate to acceptance by the society involved as to the legitimacy or acceptability of the state being established. This thesis aims to examine these arguments with respect to a case study which is at once both highly particular and unusually apposite for that analysis. The case is Somaliland, which is undergoing a transition from a kinship-based system that emphasises discursive democracy to the establishment of an increasingly viable system of representative democracy. That this process has occurred in the shadow of Somaliland’s southern neighbour, the erstwhile Republic of Somalia, a country of which the international diplomatic community still insists Somaliland is a part, yet one which is unable to establish a viable system of government itself, adds relevance to the analysis. One of the key periods in Somaliland’s transition began in 1990, just prior to the fall of the Siyaad Barre regime at the beginning of 1991, and 1997 when an interim constitution was adopted, ending a final period of conflict within Somaliland. While there remain small if vociferous sections of the population wedded to reunification with Somalia, the successful staging of a series of elections and the fact that renewed widespread conflict has failed to materialise attest to the evident fact that the accommodations reached between 1990 and 1997 enjoy the support of the vast majority of the population. In order to understand the 1990-97 period, though, it is also necessary to examine the complex links between Somalis and the political and social changes that have occurred over the years. This thesis therefore examines the changes wrought by shifting patterns of trade and pastoralism, and in particular those of the colonial era, and in that light examines the 1990-97 transition using a framework synthesised from the theories of the deliberative democracy of John Rawls and the Institutional Analysis of Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. It aims both to interrogate the synthesised conceptual framework and to refine it, in the process examining the case study and attempting to gain an understanding of some of the key elements that have permitted the emergence of a viable system of state.
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Hall, Jens. "Förändrad tid, förändrat försvar : Diskursiv institutionalism som utgångspunkt." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60615.
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The purpose of this study is to examine if a change in the defence policy discourse could be perceived during the time for the Swedish military reform during the 1990’s. A reform that later effected the Swedish Armed Forces’ capacity to defend the nation. The method of the study is based on discursive institutionalism, and mainly on Vivien Schmidt’s former research about institutionalism. The method contains a discourse analysis in combination with an idea analysis, which include ideal types of realism and liberalism and their view on international relations. The analytical framework is focusing on cognitive and normative ideas, which can be found on three levels of generality, policy ideas, programmatic ideas and philosophical ideas. The material that is used for the analysis are the Swedish defence bills during the time period 1987 to 2009 and the analysis is describing ideas in the defence policy discourse. The results indicate that the worldview shifted towards a more liberal view on international relations in the defence bill of 1992, but it was not until the defence bill of 1996 that problem definitions and solutions started to change in the same direction. The other defence bills have since then continued on the same path. The conclusion is that the changed worldview made it possible to change focus from national security to common security, which affected the policy solutions regarding the Swedish Armed Forces.
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Silva, Gustavo Pinto da. "A construção social dos circuitos curtos de comercialização e consumo de alimentos: a emergência de novas institucionalidades." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2016. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/3828.
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An increasing number of actions aimed at recovering the countryside as an active and transforming force in the agri-food field, which is known as quality turn within the international fields of study, has gained strength in recent years. In the center of the debate is the need to rethink the patterns of production, consumption and distribution of food of the modern agri-food system, recognized by the weaknesses revealed not only by food scandals, but also by social, economic, environmental, regulation and control problems. Studies emphasize the notion of an alternative food system, centralizing the characteristics of agriculture that the modern system nullifies such as the visibility of food, reconnection with the consumers and relocation. The objective of this study was to analyze and interpret the process of social construction of short circuit commerce in the city of Santiago (RS), using as reference the social practices and regulatory and cultural-cognitive frameworks previously established. This research is a case study of the commerce of fruit and vegetables. It was carried out using qualitative approach, and it was analyzed from the theoretical concepts of sociological institutionalism. Firstly, the study had an exploratory phase in order to understand the structure of the organizational field, meaningful events and organizational components. Secondly, there was an interpretative approach that aimed at understanding the process of social construction of markets by different institutional elements that provide guidance to the organizational field. It was observed that the structure of the field occurred through five simultaneous and interrelated processes: 1) cultural aspects increased interaction among agents. 2) There was a broad involvement of agents of different organizations. 3) The circuits were formed through adjustments between evaluative and cultural-cognitive institutions, which have become competitive advantages in the modern agri-food system. 4) Although the technical knowledge was scarce, it was not limiting for productive activities; and 5) the circuits had little interaction among them. The new institutionality is the historical, cultural, organizational and local policies, and it is the change that arise from professional discourse in the areas of health and nutrition informed by the press. There is an institutional change supported by five institutional factors of coordination of alternative food system: quality, reconnection with the past, territorial development, social relations and monetary value. In addition, the change is strengthened by the conditions on which the agents encounter in the formation of institutions, new institutionality. The strength of this change is supported on signs of weakening of regulative institutions of the modern agri-food system, which are subordinated to normative and cultural-cognitive influences in the alternative system. In order to contribute to the discussion of alternative agri-food systems, short circuits commerce result from social structures built in social interaction processes that were institutionalized in time, subject to change, and understood when analyzing the context of the institutional conditions in relation to other levels of the social system.Nos últimos anos, tem ganhado força um conjunto de iniciativas que recaptura o espaço rural como uma força ativa e transformadora no campo agroalimentar, dentro do que os estudos internacionais nominam de quality turn. No centro do debate, encontra-se a necessidade de repensar os padrões de produção, consumo e distribuição dos alimentos do sistema agroalimentar moderno, reconhecidos pelas fragilidades reveladas por escândalos alimentares, mas também por problemas sociais, econômicos, ambientais, identitários e de ordem de regulação e controle. Os estudos privilegiam a noção de sistema agroalimentar alternativo, centralizando as características da agricultura que o sistema moderno torna sem efeito, dentre os quais a visibilidade dos alimentos, a reconexão com o consumidor e a relocalização. O objetivo desta tese foi analisar e interpretar o processo de construção social dos mercados de circuito curto no município de Santiago (RS), tendo como referência as práticas sociais e os marcos regulatórios, normativos e cultural-cognitivos estabelecidos. A pesquisa constituiu-se como um estudo de caso da comercialização de frutas e hortaliças, conduzido por meio da abordagem qualitativa e analisado a partir dos conceitos teóricos do neoinstitucionalismo sociológico. A pesquisa teve uma primeira fase exploratória para compreender a estruturação do campo organizacional, os acontecimentos marcantes e os componentes organizacionais. A segunda fase foi interpretativa, quando, a partir dos circuitos do Hortomercado, Orgânicos e Varejistas, buscou-se compreender o processo de construção social dos mercados pelos diferentes elementos institucionais que fornecem orientações no campo organizacional. Com o estudo percebeu-se que a estruturação do campo ocorreu por meio de cinco processos simultâneos e inter-relacionados: aspectos culturais aproximaram e aumentaram a interação entre os agentes; houve um amplo envolvimento de agentes de diferentes organizações; os circuitos se formaram por meio de ajustes entre instituições valorativas e cultural-cognitivas, que se tornaram vantagens competitivas frente ao sistema agroalimentar moderno; o conhecimento técnico, por mais que seja escasso, não foi limitador para as atividades produtivas; e os circuitos pouco interagiram entre si. As novas institucionalidades são as características históricas, culturais, organizacionais e políticas locais, mas também alterações provindas do discurso profissional das áreas da saúde e nutrição, informadas pelos veículos de comunicação. Existe uma mudança institucional apoiada por cinco fatores institucionais de coordenação do sistema agroalimentar alternativo: qualidade, reconexão com o passado, desenvolvimento territorial, relações sociais e valor monetário. Além disso, a mudança é fortalecida pelas condições sobre as quais os agentes se confrontam para a formação das instituições, as novas institucionalidades. A força dessa mudança está apoiada nos sinais de enfraquecimento das instituições regulativas do sistema agroalimentar moderno, as quais, no sistema alternativo, subordinam-se às influências normativas e cultural-cognitivas. De modo a contribuir na discussão dos sistemas agroalimentares alternativos, os mercados de circuito curto decorrem de estruturas sociais construídas em processos de interação social, institucionalizados no tempo, sujeitos a mudanças e entendidos quando analisadas as condições institucionais do contexto em relação a outros níveis do sistema social.
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Kim, Suzanne M. "Applying new institutionalism to the National Guard Empowerment Act." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Dec%5FKim.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007.Thesis Advisor(s): Bruneau, Thomas C. ; Hooper, Craig. "December 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 22, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-66). Also available in print.
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Bernardi, Roberta. "Health information systems reform in Kenya : an institutionalist perspective." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51354/.
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The development outcome of ICT and information systems in developing countries is often influenced by international development policies and the action of international actors such as donor agencies. In particular, ICT adoptions and implementations in developing countries may be influenced by the contradictions arising mainly from the tension between international managerialist development policies and the main rationalities of actors in the local implementation context. Based on the case study of health information systems in Kenya, the objective of this thesis is to increase the understanding of how these contradictions may affect the development and change potential of health information systems and ICTs in developing countries in relation to international development policies. Drawing on a dialectical perspective on institutional work, the thesis argues that the change and development trajectories arising from the implementation and usage of health information systems depend on how actors involved in the restructuring of health information systems – i.e. donor partners, national decision makers and local health information systems managers and users – respond to the ongoing dialectic between global and local pressures of institutional change and stability. The main findings of the research presented in this thesis point to the importance of analysing political donor relations and the institutional entrepreneurship of local actors in order to understand the change and development outcomes of health information systems and ICT in developing countries.
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Negru, Ioana. "Institutions, markets and gift : neoclassical, institutionalist and Austrian perspectives." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441466.
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Karakaya, Polat Rabia. "The Internet, local participation and democracy : an institutionalist approach." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4785.
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Banuelos, Liana (Liana M. ). "Overcoming Barriers to Institutionalize Climate Change Resiliency Practices : MassDOT." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118266.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The most pronounced climate change effects in northeastern United States will be increased precipitation events, more frequent heat waves, and substantial sea level rise. These temperature and flooding outcomes place substantial risk on vital infrastructure that supports economic development, public health, and access to resources and amenities within the state of Massachusetts. As such, there is a need to mitigate these risks through long-range planning and climate change adaptation strategies. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) recognizes that infrastructure must be fortified through these methods but has yet to establish a systematic approach for quantifying climate change impacts, evaluating the costs and benefits of selective intervention, and implementing adaptation strategies. However, MassDOT operates within a complex political setting of constraints and conditions that may or may not be conducive to particular implementation mechanisms. Additionally, the hydrologic modeling and spatial analysis needed to identify specific areas of transportation infrastructure that are especially vulnerable to climate change effects will not be completed until late 2018. Cognizant of these constraints, this thesis aims to (1) synthesize the best climate change resiliency strategies from other large infrastructure owners/DOTs and (2) draw upon lessons learned from other agencies to recommend strategies for overcoming barriers to institutionalization at MassDOT. In this way, the department will have a roadmap to addressing existing gaps and barriers to implementation once the climate adaptation and vulnerability assessment tool has been developed. By strategically protecting infrastructure that will have the greatest benefit to MassDOT's constituents at the least cost, the department will be able to minimize the impacts of climate change and maintain a satisfying level of service despite increasing climate stresses on infrastructure and operations.
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Abdul, Khalid Siti Nabiha. "An institutionalist study of resistance to management accounting change." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488393.
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This is a case study of a company on which a new system of key performance indicators was imposed by its parent company. The members of the organisation did not formally and overtly oppose the new system. However, the way they implemented the new system was in line with their existing ways of doing things. Therefore, the focus of this research is to understand and explain why there is resistance to management accounting change and how this resistance is manifested. This study aims to provide a processual view of the resistance to change, that is to trace the historical and contingent characteristics that gave rise to such resistance. An interpretive case study approach is used in this research in which theory and case observations were essential in interpreting the research findings. Burns and Scapens's (1998,1999) institutionalist framework of management accounting change is utilised in order to answer the research questions and provides explanation of the case. Burns and Scapens argue that change is a complex process and it is inherently path dependent. They also argue that change that is consistent with the existing routines and institutions can be easier to implement than change which challenges existing institutions. Hence, resistance to change could be the result of the conflict between the values underlying the new system and the existing institutions in the organisations. The new KPIs system that was imposed on the company challenged its existing institutions. The new system required an economic mindset. In addition, in the new system, the employees' performance was made more transparent. The existing institutions in the company were characterised by a dominant production orientation, in part due to its absolute monopolistic position and the specific nature of its revenues and also the lack of use of financial targets. The budget is an institutionalised routine in the organisation, but used in a ceremonial manner. The managers used budgets mostly as a means to obtain resources. The accountants in the company had a traditional role and did not play an active part in assisting the other managers in their day to day decisions. The task of implementing the new system fell upon the accountants, but, the formulation of KPIs was by specific managers. However, what happened was that the organisational members subverted the change in line with what was acceptable to them. As such, the revolutionary change that was imposed on the company has followed an evolutionary path dependent process. There were new activities associated with the new KPIs system, however, the values underpinning those activities remained the same, and consequently, the ways in which the new system was used were in line with the existing institutions. There was formal change, but ways of thinking were still the same. As Burns and Scapens (1999) maintain, formal change without change in ways of thinking can result in resistance and failure of implementation.
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Bärmig, Sven. "Wachsen – wie geht das?" Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16657.
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Mit dieser Arbeit soll ein Beitrag zur Aus- arbeitung einer Behindertenpädagogik geleistet werden, die sich als Teil einer Allgemeinen Pädagogik versteht. Durch die gesellschaftstheoretische Analyse soll deutlich werden, was Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft bedeutet und im Gegensatz dazu, wie sich Schließungs- prozesse darstellen. Dies ist der Ausgangspunkt das Verhältnis von Gesellschaft und Behinderung näher zu beleuchten. Damit soll ein Verständnis gewonnen werden, warum die heterogene Gruppe der Menschen mit Behinderung unter eine zentrale Definition gefasst wird, auf deren Grundlage Hilfen im Rahmen des Sozialstaats geleistet werden. Dies ist eine der Ursachen, warum diese Personengruppe vielfältigen Aus- und Einschließ- ungsprozessen unterworfen ist. Daran anschließend geht es um das gesellschaft- liche Rationalitätsmodell des Qualitäts- managements, das als aktuelles Modell der Sozial- politik aufgegriffen wurde. Trotz der sozial- politischen Verankerung herrscht noch immer Unsicherheit, was damit im Einzelnen gemeint ist. Hier treten vor allem Interessens- unterschiede hervor. Die Professionellen finden sich hier in einem Spannungsverhältnis wieder, da auf der einen Seite eine effektive Sozialarbeit (Gesetzgeber) und auf der anderen Seite umfassende Teilhabe (Adressaten) eingefordert wird. Mit einer De-Institutionalisierung existiert jedoch eine Perspektive, die beides ermöglichen könnte: Fachlich fundierte Hilfe in einem gesellschaftlich gewünschten Sinne, der jedoch nicht ausschließlich die Kosten fokussiert, sondern vor allem die Rechte der Adressaten in den Vordergrund stellt. Letzeres sichert ethische Werthaltungen der Gesellschaft, die für die Unterstützung von Menschen mit Behinderung notwendig ist.The purpose of this dissertation is to make a contribution to the elaboration of a General Inclusive Education. In my opinion, the institutions for the disabled can learn from Social Work, which in its theoretical canon constantly deals with the role it fulfills in society. For this reason, the analysis starts with a chapter on relevant social theories which give an overview on the society we live in. Furthermore, the meaning of participation in society on the one hand and closure processes on the other hand is made clear. On the basis of this demonstration, the relation of society and disability is examined. This examination aims to gain an understanding why the heterogeneous group of persons with disabilities is classified under one central definition which serves as a basis for the provision of aids within the welfare state. This situation is one of the reasons why this group of people is subject to manifold exclusion and inclusion processes. Following that, the focus is directed towards the social rationality model of quality management. It has been taken up by social policy, because the costs of social politics have repeatedly been questioned. But despite the socio-political integration, there is still uncertainty about how “quality” is defined. There is a conflict of interests between legislators, who mainly aim at an effective social work, and the addressees, who primarily want an extensive participation. For professionals, this means a state of tension. Concepts from experts ensuring participation processes do exist; however, their realization demands a prospect of change of the structural general conditions. The process of deinstitutionalisation could make both things possible: professional help according to the wishes of society, which gives priority to the rights of the addressees and not to the cost factor. This ensures ethical values in society which are necessary for the support of people with disabilities.
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Hilmersson, Mikael. "Establishment of Insidership Positions in Institutionally Distant Business Networks." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-11799.
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Since the opening of formerly closed markets in Eastern Europe and China in the early 1990s, numerous firms have sought to capture the growth opportunities prevailing in the virgin but institutionally distant business networks in these countries. I claim that the entry process into an institutionally distant business network has been realised when the entering firm has reached an insidership position in the network. To advance this idea, the thesis introduces the overlooked medium-sized multinational exporter (MME) and answers the following overarching research questions: (I) how do MMEs establish insidership positions in institutionally distant business networks, and (II) what critical abilities are developed by MMEs in the process of entering an institutionally distant business network? To answer these questions, qualitative and quantitative methods have sequentially been mixed to first give an in-depth understanding of the empirical field, and second to verify and generalise some of the most central tentative findings. Empirically, the study reports from a case study of eight firms in the Baltic Sea Region and from an on-site survey of 203 Swedish firms with experience of entries in Eastern Europe and/or China. Five individual essays are presented—all designed to reflect different aspects of the institutionally distant network entry process. The findings are condensed in the cover of the thesis, where it is claimed that an insidership position is reached through three main phases: the Scouting phase, the Qualifying phase and the Shielding phase. Furthermore, it is found that that the most critical abilities developed through the institutionally distant network entry process is local experience-based knowledge of high specificity. It is shown that previous experiences, generated in different business networks in mature markets, are not useful in the network entry process in immature markets. As a consequence, there is reason to believe that the entering firm needs to develop unlearning abilities to replace obsolete or misleading experience.
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Kodakci, Devrim. "The Democratic Deficit Of The European Union: An Institutionalist Approach." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605669/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses the democratic deficit problem of the European Union in a historical context. As the Union develops from a purely economic community into political and social entity, its democratic credentials are put into question. In this thesis, it is argued that technocratic and elitist institutional structure of the Union causes this democratic deficit. Therefore, in order to rectify it and make the Union more legitimate in the eyes of its citizens, the institutions of the Union should be re-structured.
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Hunter, Andrew Sloan. "Australia and Japan : from protagonists of regional institutionalism to outsiders /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh9451.pdf.
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Roberts, Brian K. "Regulation of the British mass media : a historical institutionalist account." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557843.
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This thesis is centrally concerned with the historical development and performance of two sectors which have together constituted the mainstay of the British mass media, namely terrestrial broadcasting and the printed press. It sets out to discover how and why two sectors born of the same national setting, and whose regulatory arrangements were formally constructed in historical perspective at roughly the same moment in time, have developed to be so different. It argues that part of the answer lies in an explanatory variable neglected by existing accounts of British media development, namely the institutional variable. Thus, whilst incorporating insights from leading accounts that view British media development from 'outside in'; as the product of external forces acting upon media institutions; this thesis constructs a complementary account of British media development which emphasises how and why Britain's foremost mass media have been heavily dependent on their prior institutional histories. For the purposes of concision, the thesis refers to this perspective as the view from 'inside out'. To make its case, the thesis applies concepts drawn from the historical institutionalist (HI) school of political science, such as historical timing and sequence, self-reinforcing positive feedback, institutional isomorphism, path dependence, windows of opportunity and critical junctures, exploring how and why the institutional structures of the British press and British broadcasting developed over time, and outlining why an HI perspective adds significant value to the current knowledge base. The thesis comes in three parts. In Part One, the respective performances of British broadcasting and the British press under formal regulation are analysed. In Part Two, the sectoral differences identified in Part One are explained, first by means of three leading narratives that perceive media development from 'outside in'; and secondly via a HI account which views development from 'inside out'. Finally, in Part Three, the thesis focuses upon the current state of play and longer term prospects of the institution of British public service broadcasting. There it considers whether, in light of current powerful external forces of change, a regulatory policy paradigm shift has occurred. Though it does not discount the propensity for change in the current climate, it argues that the path dependent nature of three recent significant policy developments shows that, even in the digital age, media institutions and their histories continue to matter.
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Hart, Ian M. "The Quest to Institutionalise a Social Report in American Government." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519776.
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Win, Sandar. "Sociological institutionalist approach on banks' lending behavior in Myanmar (Burma)." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/315809.
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This is an exploratory study which investigated the process by which banks' lending behaviour in Myanmar (Bunna) was influenced by the institutional environment and their responses towards them. The theoretical framework used in this study was primarily drawn upon Scott's new institutional theory. Since the theory focused on the convergent perspective rather than divergent perspective, the theory of Oliver's strategic responses to these institutional pressures, coercive, normative and mimetic, was incorporated in the theoretical framework development. The main method of data collection was interviews. NVIVO was used to analyse these interviewed data. However, descriptive statistics were also used to provide a comprehensive picture of the context being studied. The findings suggest that banks' always attempted to extemalise risks to borrowers. Their responses to institutional pressures were to conform but a range of other forms of resistance were also found. However, strong forms of resistance were uncommon. I have also identified the situations in which the banks would choose either strong or weak forms of resistance to institutional pressures. Such identifications may add understanding to the specific lending strategies that are developed in different circumstances. The study also contributed to closing the gap in banking literature through conducting research in the context of Myanmar, which was previously unexplored. In addition, it suggests areas needed to be improved for financial sector development in Myanmar.
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Hodby, Alexandra Jane. "Learning after 'new institutionalism' : democracy and Tate Modern Public Programme." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2018. http://research.gold.ac.uk/23685/.
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This thesis examines the failure of the curatorial discourse of ‘New Institutionalism’ in relation to the Public Programme at Tate Modern. It argues that New Institutionalism, despite being unable to describe the complexity of art organisations, nevertheless recognised the importance of the latter as an active part of democracy. In the course of its investigation, the thesis establishes a unique history of Public Programming at Tate Modern and shows how learning activities in Tate Modern continued to deploy the values of New Institutionalism (in particular, those of dialogue and participation) long after its failure and decline. By developing an understanding of Tate Modern's Public Programme beyond the oppositional politics of New Institutionalism, the thesis seeks also to develop a more complex analysis of democracy in relation to art museum politics. In so doing, it explores practices of power and authority in the art museum and considers the importance of the museum in relation to democratic citizenship and community, arguing that an art museum is the agent of a more complex learning about the nature and politicisation of ‘the democratic’. Similarly, by drawing attention to the public spaces of the art museum, and by engaging with urgent issues of openness and publicness, the thesis investigates the site-specificity of museum practices after New Institutionalism. Finally, the thesis argues that Tate Modern Public Programming performs a role in democratic society that moves beyond learning about art and towards a reimagining of democracy itself. Activities in an art museum, it claims, are not models for democratic society, but rather, they represent democracy in action, evidencing a complex and potent site where issues including politics, community, control and creativity are at stake.
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Ribeiro, Joao Francisco da Silva Alves. "Institutionalism, power and resistance to management accounting : a case study." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488116.
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This thesis reports an intensive longitudinal case study carried out in a Portuguese manufacturing organisation in which attempts to promote change through management accounting were made in recent years. The initial motivation of the research was to study processes of management accounting change with consideration of the rich context in which this change takes place. I was initially inspired by a framework for studying those processes based on the insights of Old Institutional Economics (Bums and Scapens, 2000) and by a technological deterministic view of the relationship between information technologies and management accounting in organisations (e. g. Markus and Robey, 1988). Specifically, I hypothesised that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems could produce and/or enhance change in management accounting rules and routines. Consequently, I chose an organisation in which an ERP system had recently been implemented. However, in a first pilot visit to the organisation, in January 2000, two puzzling observations were made. Firstly, and particularly in the manufacturing area of the organisation, management accounting systems introduced in recent years were not being used in everyday interactions and practices. In the terms usually deployed in the New Institutional Sociology literature, they were decoupled. Secondly, that decoupling remained despite the ERP implementation. Indeed, the ERP system was having no apparent impact on management accounting or on the work of management accountants. Thereafter, my research aimed at developing a theoretical framework capable of incorporating these puzzling issues while accommodating the insights of institutional models. These models propose explanations for resistance to change and decoupling that did not seem to match my observations in the case study. I found that both the observed decoupling in the case organisation's manufacturing area and the lack of impact of the ERP system on management accounting/accountants were related to issues of power. There were different and conflicting conceptions of which rules should be followed in the manufacturing area, and strategic attempts to enact those conceptions (or to resist alternative ones). To accommodate these aspects, I reviewed different conceptions of power, and developed a theoretical framework based on the insights of the Circuits of Power (Clegg, 1989a). My theoretical framework allowed me to explain the puzzling observations in my case. I could enlighten the processes leading to the introduction and subsequent decoupling of management accounting systems in the organisation studied. I could also clarify the processes and reasons leading to the lack of impact of the ERP system on management accounting/accountants. At stake were attempts to impose new rules through management accounting, and resistance to those attempts - caused by a prevailing configuration of the circuits of power and by strategies conducted within that configuration. The analysis of the case study also allowed me to raise some theoretical issues regarding institutional models. I propose that the theoretical framework developed in this thesis is capable of accommodating the insights of those models, while extending them to incorporate the observations of my case study. Finally, the proposed theoretical framework also constitutes a sensitising device for studying processes entailed in the implementation of ERP systems in organisations.
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Cohen, Lawrence. "A study in institutionalism : the Jewish children's orphanage at Norwood." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344631/.
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The thesis is a study in child institutionalism focussed on the Jewish orphanage at Norwood. The chronology of institutionalism is divided into three phases. The phases correspond to periods of growth, consolidation and decline. The introductory chapter provides a brief history of Norwood as a background to the study. The sources available - archives, recollections and published works - are reviewed to reveal a significant gap in Anglo-Jewish history. A Study in Institutionalism is outlined in chapter 1 as a prelude to the analysis undertaken in the following chapters. The institutional theme is initially examined by analysing the names used for Norwood in chapter 2. It is argued names are not merely external labels but are also linked with ‘internal forces’ that make the institution’s ‘personality’. This connection provides the basis for the linguistic study of name changing covering the years 1807 to 1961. In chapter 3 the expansion phase is examined as a Jewish template of institutionalism at Norwood. In chapter 4 the template of the institution is broadened to include national and international developments. The wider perspective include the new continental ideas on residential care, the parallel institution of the Poor Law system, the residential solutions of the evangelical charities sceptical of the large institution, and in America the institution’s progressive transformation into one that was more child-centred. The second phase of institutionalism during the inter-war period is studied in chapter 5. At Norwood, on the one hand, liberal reforms were introduced to improve the lives of the children and, on the other hand, there was structural stagnation. It was a phase marked by institutional self-doubt that in American Jewish orphanages saw a movement towards the ‘child developing institution’ in which the child rather than the institution took precedence, whereas this was less developed in Britain. The theme of counter- institutionalism is examined in chapter 6. The focus is on the children and the way they adapted to institutional life. Rebelliousness was one extreme form and expressed itself in the exceptional Norwood Rebellion of 1921 as well as ongoing resistance to corporal punishment. The penultimate chapter concludes the historical trajectory of the child institution at Norwood with its downfall and closure. The post-war period was marked by the findings of the Curtis Committee on the workings of such institutions. At Norwood the impact was seen in the structural reforms of the 1950s carried out under Edward Conway leading ultimately to the closure of the orphanage in 1961 and its replacement by family homes. The ideological transformation from institutionalism to one based on the paramount importance of the child concludes the study relating to the third phase of institutionalism. The concluding chapter provides a judgment on institutionalism – whether Norwood was a ‘good enough’ institution for the children, and more broadly whether Norwood was ahead or behind in its outlook compared with other examples in Britain and beyond.
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Uthaisang, Pitaya. "Telecommunications reform programme of Thailand : institutionalism and the reform process." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2444/.
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The thesis presents an empirical study of the telecommunications reform experience of Thailand between the mid 1980s and 2000s in an attempt to explain the effect of national institutional arrangements upon the reform process. This time period permits an exploration of the development of the reform as well as its major impediments in relation to three different political settings. The progress of reform on the three basic reform issues (privatisation, liberalisation, and regulation) is thoroughly examined to understand the consequences produced by different industry environments. An historical institutionalist study of the Thai experience identifies the political tensions among the reform's interested parties as well as the unwieldy political settings that were the dominant features that heavily influenced the reform story. The thesis places a special emphasis on the latest political regime (the hegemonic era) since it provided a different industry outlook compared to the previous two regimes (the bureaucratic and pluralistic eras), allowing substantial progress towards reform to be made. The telecommunications reform in Thailand is not complete. Thus, it may be too early to confirm the advantage of the strong politics on the reform in the long run, especially considering the possibilities of rent-seeking or the overuse of political power of the hegemonic govenunent. In any case, the Thai reform experience confirms that an institutionalist framework is helpful, and that institutional arrangements really matter in the policy-formation, policy-implementation and policy-outcome of a particular country.
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Weimer, David E. "Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society After the State Church." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493395.
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Even as the Church of England lost ground to political dissent and New England gradually disestablished its state churches early in the nineteenth century, writers on both sides of the debates about church establishments maintained their belief in religion’s role as a moral guide for individuals and the state. “Protestant Institutionalism” argues that writers—from Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe to George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell—imagined through literature the institutions that would produce a religiously sound society as established churches began to lose their authority. Drawing on novels and poems as well as sermons and tracts about how religion might exist apart from the state, I argue that these authors both understood society in terms of institutions and also used their literature to imagine the institutions—such as family, denomination, and nation—that would provide society with a stable foundation. This institutional thinking about society escapes any literary history that accepts Protestant individualism as a given. In fact, although the US and England maintained different relationships between church and state, British authors often looked to US authors for help imagining the society that new forms of religion might produce precisely in terms of these institutions. In the context of disestablishment we can see how the literature of the nineteenth century—and nineteenth-century novels in particular—was about more than the fate of the individual in society. In fact, to different degrees for each author, individual development actually relies on the proper understanding of the individual’s relationship to institutions and the role those institutions play in supporting societyEnglish
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Winkle, Wagner Rachelle. "The Unchosen Me : institutionally imposed identity and women's college experiences /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215213.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1251. Advisers: Deborah F. Carter; Phil F. Carspecken. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 18, 2007)."
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Karagoz, Ufuk. "The Economic Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe: An Institutionalist Critique And Reinterpretation." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613785/index.pdf.
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In 1719, Daniel Defoe wrote his first fiction The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe without knowing that the protagonist of the novel, Robinson Crusoe, would be liberated from his cultural matrix and deployed as a dominant economic metaphor with the advent of the so-called marginalist revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. This thesis intends to: i) with reference to an habits of thought approach, unearth the institutional nature of the metamorphosis of Crusoe from a figure of the literary realm to the economic man of neoclassical economics, and ii) based on a rereading of Defoe&rsquos original text, offer an alternative reinterpretation which would turn upside down the prevalent presuppositions of neoclassical economics portraying an isolated, universal and axiomatically rational Crusoe. Accordingly, in this study, Crusoe is presented as a specific time- and space-bound human being preserving and perpetuating his institutionally forged character traits even during his sojourn on the &lsquo
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Al-Rikabi, Jaffar. "Iraq and the theory of base politics Cooley, institutionalism and culture /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/648147691/viewonline.
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Theuerkauf, Ulrike. "Ethno-embedded institutionalism : the impact of institutional repertoires on ethnic violence." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/535/.
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Hitherto, the relationships between political institutions and ethnopolitical (in)stability typically have been analysed by investigating the effects of single, formal political institutions such as electoral systems or state structures (see e.g. Reynolds 2002; Roeder and Rothchild 2005). My doctoral thesis criticises this research focus on two different yet equally relevant accounts: First, the tendency to single out the effects of individual institutions is based on the implicit – and as I claim: wrong – assumption that political institutions can be treated as separate entities and that it is only of secondary relevance of which broader set of institutions they form part. Second, despite studies which highlight the relevance of informal political institutions (see e.g. Sisk and Stefes 2005; Varshney 2002), they have received far less attention in the academic debate so far. ‘Ethno-Embedded Institutionalism’ describes a new approach to the study of institutional incentives for ethnic violence which goes beyond the mere focus on single, formal political institutions by highlighting the effects of both institutional combinations and informal political institutions on the risk of ethnic civil war. To test the relevance of ‘Ethno-Embedded Institutionalism’, I use a grievance-based explanation of intrastate violence and binary time-series-cross-section analysis based on a personally designed dataset that covers 174 countries between 1955 and 2007. I present statistical evidence that high levels of corruption on the one hand, and institutional combinations of presidentialism, a majoritarian electoral system for the legislature and a unitary state structure on the other increase the risk of large-scale ethnic violence. Overall, my thesis contributes to the academic debate in three relevant regards: i) by conceptualising and testing Ethno-Embedded Institutionalism; ii) by describing a grievance-based explanation of large-scale ethnic violence which clearly identifies the key values of political representation; and iii) by presenting the EEI Dataset as the first comprehensive data source for the systematic statistical analysis of institutional incentives for ethnic civil war.
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Whittingham, Ryan. "Economic institutional change in bolivia and peru a discursive institutionalist approach." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/639.
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Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a number of Latin American countries have undergone a marked shift to the left in their politics. With this, a number of Latin American countries have been pursuing economic policies that give a greater role for the state in economic affairs. Hugo Chavez has promised to build "twenty-first century socialism" in Venezuela, while Bolivia's Evo Morales often attacks the "neoliberalism" that previously guided economic reform in that country. This thesis investigates these economic institutional changes through a discursive institutionalist perspective, focusing on two Latin American countries: Bolivia and Peru. The goal is to analyze the role discourse and ideas played in impacting economic institutional change, or the lack thereof, in these two countries. This analysis suggests that institutional change in Bolivia can be explained by the skill political figures such as Evo Morales had in linking certain economic policies to notions of Bolivian sovereignty and a defense of natural resources. However, in Peru, discursive limitations presented barriers to a shift towards greater state intervention. By emphasizing the impact of discourse and ideas, this thesis aims to provide a novel theoretical interpretation of these events transpiring in Latin America.B.A.
Bachelors
Sciences
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Bateira, Jorge. "Institutions, markets and economic evolution - conceptual basis for a naturalist institutionalism." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/institutions-markets-and-economic-evolution--conceptual-basis-for-a-naturalist-institutionalism(c794c515-22de-41b7-aa5e-9405e5777741).html.
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We might wonder, after two centuries of economic science and thousands of articles and books written by economists, if something new can still be said about 'markets'. Today, what new contribution could still be given to a so fundamental concept in economics? This thesis builds on the main legacy of Veblen, Polanyi and Hayek's Institutionalism: the distinction between the 'interactional' level of human sociality and the 'structural' level of society that Veblen named 'institutions'. The three authors tentatively formulated an original idea: the two levels of sociocultural reality are interdependent and mutually constitutive. This is a proto-emergentist ontology of institutions that makes the starting point of the thesis. Convergent results of different disciplines are explored in order to develop such ontology. It is argued that sociocultural systems have properties that make them specific, namely the human capacity to interact in multiple scales of time-space using human language. Sociocultural research cannot be guided by conceptual schemes abstracted from other levels of Nature. This is the bedrock of a Naturalist Institutionalism. To understand institutions we need to discuss meanings and culture; we need to enter the semiotic of Peirce, the founder of Pragmatism. The foregoing implies the distinction of three types of inter-dependent processes in sociocultural systems: the cultural ('norms'); the social (networks, organisations); the material reality. This analytical move enables a redefinition of 'institution': a sociocultural system emergent from inter-related organisations, networks, norms and material reality, which structure individuals and organisations and serves a societal function. In this sense, the 'economy' is a macro-institution and markets are sub-systems of the 'economy', meso-institutions. Thus, a market is a self-organizing, complex, and open system endowed with structural levels emergent from persons' interactions-communications participating in the transformation processes of production, distribution, appropriation and consumption, using matter-energy and symbolic tools. Finally, it is argued that the evolutionary process of markets has a specific sociocultural nature that goes by the name of 'history'. Their motion is discussed with recourse to a model that highlights the interactions of markets with science, state and culture to solve problems of uncertainty and coordination in the processes of competition, cooperation and valuation.
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Köhle, Bernhard. "Evaluating sub-regional economic development regeneration partnerships : a new institutionalist critique." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418171.
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Xiao, Yin. "Analysing the enforcement dimension of regulatory competition : a cultural institutionalist approach." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1035/.
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This thesis is aimed at solving this puzzle: If the rules are the same, how do regulatory authorities compete for business firms to come to their jurisdictions? I suggest that it is better to think of regulatory competition in terms of regulating and regulated sides finding a partner to form a marriage. I argue that an important dimension to regulatory competition is competition between different types of microlevel enforcement regimes for different types of firms. Assuming the rules stay the same, depending on the match or mismatch of regimes’ and firms’ preferences, enforcement regimes have differential results in business attraction, enforcement effect and regulatory advantage. This argument is elucidated by a so-called ER (enforcement regime) Framework that uses the cultural institutionalist approach – a fusion of historical institutionalism and Mary Douglas’ grid-group typology. The framework is used to interpret the empirical findings about regulatory competition for foreign investment in China. The thesis adds to our knowledge about the dynamics both of regulatory competition and of enforcement regimes, and helps to fill the gap that exists between the literatures in these two areas.
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Schrag, Anthony Gordon. "Agonistic tendencies : the role of conflict within institutionally supported participatory practices." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3270.
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In the UK, over the past two decades, participatory art practices – particularly those funded by Government/Local Authorities – have been employed to address issues such as community cohesion, social inclusion, or to assist groups perceived as marginalised. This has created an over-arching impetus for this kind of work to be ameliorative, seek consensus and eradicate conflict. The public sphere, however, is an inherently conflictual zone, constructed of debate, discourse and difference, and this creates a disjuncture between the intention of commissioning participatory practices and what these practices can feasibly achieve. This research examines the place of conflict in institutionally commissioned participatory art projects. Defining ‘conflict’ as the iterations of power that challenge the certainty of our hegemonies and/or our place within the world, it aims to address the instrumentalisation of the practice and asks: how can conflict be productive in participatory art practices? Through practice-led research enacted through a series of carefully considered residencies in institutions which influence or enact participative arts practices (for example, a local authority, museum, and educational establishment), the research introduces the notion of conflict to problematise the discourse around institutionallyenacted participative projects and, in particular, the intent of the institutions and/or its underlying policy. Moreover, the adopted methodology of physicality operates as a material “that does not intimidate” (Thomas Hirschhorn, 2000) and one which can act as both a mechanism of engagement to reach a wide cross-section of the public(s), but also a form through which to ground discourse in the very embodied nature of participatory work. The research is significant as the vast majority of participatory artworks now occur within institutionally-supported contexts via funding from arts-council and trusts, or through educational/outreach remits. It draws on Chantal Mouffe’s notion of agonistic pluralism to inquire into the relationship between institution, artist and public. It reveals that conflictual participatory artworks are able to not only uncover, but also challenge, the (often hidden) instrumentalised approaches of institutions. This agonistic conflict is productive in ensuring the agency of all participants (including those within the institution), but also in exploring the critical, ethical and political potentials of this way of working. The unique contribution to the field lies in the development of productive relationships with institutions, and this approach stands apart from the traditional activist and/or political works that seek an ‘exodus’ from pre-existing systems. Additionally, it unravels the critical discourse on the practice currently dominated by the almost binary opposition from critics Grant Kester and Claire Bishop and presents a novel synthesis of their thinking in the form of a ‘conflictually dialogic’ approach. The aim of the research is to provide new ethical and political understandings of the emancipatory possibilities of participatory practices. Standing in contrast to ameliorative approaches, this work reveals conflict to be an inerasable yet productive element of the social realm, and advocates practitioners, publics and institutions embrace its productive aspects. These include fostering multiple – and egalitarian – perspectives, an ability to resist an “oppressive consensus” (Rancière, 2004) of inclusion, proposing new productive relationships with institutions and publics, as well as developing critical art. It demonstrates how conflict can provide the ‘potential for transformation’ that does not defer to specific formulations of politics, but rather reveals new subjectivities and makes visible the smooth functioning of dominant hegemonies. Finally, it presents physical methodologies as an integral aspect of participatory practices. These findings are significant in contributing to a professional, critical and academic re-conceptualisation of participatory practices.
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Goodman, Joseph William. "Conceptualising policy making in the EU telecommunications sector, 1957-1999 : the need to synthesise theoretical approaches." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251450.
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