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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Institutional Architecture"”.
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When Elections Become Crises: Crisis Management, Institutional Architecture, and Democratic Resilience in the United States and France
… were not designed to examine the moment of acute institutional pressure when governing bodies must recognize, respond to, and communicate about an active crisis in real time. This thesis applies crisis management theory to the electoral process, arguing that it provides analytical tools these …
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When Elections Become Crises: Crisis Management, Institutional Architecture, and Democratic Resilience in the United States and France
… were not designed to examine the moment of acute institutional pressure when governing bodies must recognize, respond to, and communicate about an active crisis in real time. This thesis applies crisis management theory to the electoral process, arguing that it provides analytical tools these …
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Trust in Water: An Institutional Analysis of China's Urban Tap Water Provision System
This thesis presents a comprehensive institutional analysis of China’s urban tap water provision system from a ‘source to sip’ holistic research perspective. With the examination of each agent’s function in the system, this thesis coins the concepts of semi-potable tap water and Hybrid …
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In search of a direction in the contemporary architecture of Arabia
… attempts to capture the spirit of the indigenous architecture in its particular context This thesis seeks to investigate and understand the approach of architects who have attempted to design in a kind of semi-abstracted continuation of the Arab tradition. In order to be able to appraise the …
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The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa
… rights to NHRCs; strengthening the institutional architecture of NHRCs and the ability of the courts and parliament to adequately support and supplement the efforts these institutions. Therefore, the study recommends the need to ensure that these factors are provided in the legal …
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Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility and the Case of Small and Medium Enterprises in a Kazakh Context
… aspect of social interactions from political and institutional architecture to common cultural references and social norms. Simultaneously, transformations in business and economic relations at the global level have produced a growth in discourse on CSR, particularly in developing countries. These …
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Debt as Infrastructure: Contract Farming, Labour, and Oil Palm in Montes de María
… an infrastructure are materialised in the institutional arrangements of contract farming which were created to comply with credit access conditions. This institutional architecture encompasses the peasant palm cooperatives, the price-setting procedures, the exclusivity agreement that tied …
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STATECRAFT IN BLACK: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PARTY POLITICS, AND THE RISE OF ETHNORACIAL INSTITUTIONS IN BRAZIL
… governments have established a range of institutional measures, including anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action policies, participatory councils, and dedicated bureaucratic agencies. Despite the expansion of these initiatives, however, we know little about the political conditions …
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The Irish adult education policy process since 1997: some lessons for the future
… a fragmented system with a dysfunctional architecture that remained intact despite ten years of intense policy making. The study also highlighted rivalry between the Department of Education and Science (DES) and the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (DETE) for control over …
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Digital boundaries: A study into how mobile devices and information + communication technologies can influence the social programming, spatial conditions and construction of public architecture
… spatial conditions and construction of public architecture. This topic is derived from the study of Urban Informatics which looks at three key actors: people, place and technology. This can be seen in South Africa where many young individuals inhabit public buildings in the urban environment …
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A.W.N. Pugin's English residential architecture in its context
… all of A.W.N. Pugin’s known English residential architecture for the first time, placing it in the context of the domestic and institutional architecture of comparable small buildings, particularly Anglican parsonages, of the period in which he lived and worked. The Dissertation is preceded by a …
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Co-ordination of enterprise skill formation: a sociological and historical narrative of professional, market and state initiatives in South Africa
… The thesis proceeds to elaborate the unique institutional architecture which was constructed at various junctures in the history of South Africa’s human resource and skill formation journey. Furthermore the thesis gives an insight into the coordination of enterprise skill formation which …
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Modelo territorial para el desarrollo regional en México : propuesta de regiones objetivo con enfoque de cohesión
… are principles for the application of policies, institutional architecture, funding, programs, and a regional approach centered on helping the regions with a greater relative lag. The model emphasizes the last element, where the proposition is that the objectives of development should always be …
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Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
This thesis puts forward the hypothesis that architecture can act as an apparatus of governance and explores the theoretical, spatial, and material implications of this. It examines a specific milieu that of the British welfare state, which it positions as part of the liberal post-war reforms …
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Lost in Transition: How Ireland and Three Other Small Open Economies Responded to Europeanisation 1987-2013
… environment there is opportunity too. The institutional architecture of EMU is so dysfunctional that it must eventually yield to reform if European integration as a project is to survive. Therein lies the possibility for a social democratic revival if a convincing narrative for it can be …
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Birthing the Eco: Towards a West African Law on Economic and Monetary Union
… the literature by venturing a legal and institutional view on why the EMU has failed. In doing so, the study defines the ‘Ecozone’ as the domain for the EMU and develops the corpus of Ecozone law by synthesising the various elements comprising that law and its institutional architecture …
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Un camino de conocimiento: a marimacha's meditation on an LGBTQ inclusive charter school
… methods to inquire if this school creates an institutional architecture that cultivates more positive academic and non-academic outcomes for LGBTQ youth. Java High is located on the north west side of the Midwest urban city of Hatfield and was established in 2005 as a public instrumentality …
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French development aid and the reforms of 1998–2002
… in February 1998. This includes analysis of institutional reorganisation and of new policy doctrines. The study considers the implications of these changes for the relations between France and former French colonies of sub-Saharan Africa, including detailed analysis of the aid relationship …
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From Vacancy to Vitality: Adaptive Reuse Strategies for an Abandoned Church in Washington, D. C.
… reuse, particularly within the typology of institutional buildings. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches—once vital community anchors—have become some of the most affected institutions, facing declining attendance and increasing tax burdens. As a result, many have been left …
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