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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"Institutional Arrangements"”.
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Institutional arrangements and land reallocation during transition : a regional analysis of small farms in Romania
… of land in associations occurred while this institutional arrangement was criticized in the literature and individual farming was portrayed as the panacea for these countries. The main research question that frames my dissertation is: Why do farmers still persist in joining associations …
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Sharing benefits from coastal resources with rual communities in South Africa : the influence of institutional arrangements
Through an analysis of three rural communities in these provinces, this research sought to understand how and why benefits arising from the use of coastal resources in the fisheries and mining sectors are shared and distributed in the manner that they are.
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Analysis of institutional arrangements and common pool resources governance: the case of Lake Tana sub-basin, Ethiopia
… This research employed the modified form of Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. The framework integrates the concept of Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) and Interactive Governance (IG) perspectives where social actors, institutions, the politico-economic context, discourses …
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"Living for the City:" : the political meaning of public housing residents' extraordinary struggle
… Johnson Houses in East Harlem, I examine how institutional arrangements affect public housing residents' agency. I found that it is the particular institutional arrangements that public housing residents reside within-as opposed to a culture of poverty-that greatly inhibits their ability to …
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Adaptive governance of contested rivers : a political journey into the uncertain
… international rivers is characterized by complex institutional arrangements aimed at minimizing uncertainty and making it difficult for participants to avoid their responsibilities. However, as new information emerges, new impacts of activities on rivers are identified, new stakeholders emerge and …
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Who benefits from investment in universities? : institutions, university spillovers, and firm performance
This study examines the impact of local institutional arrangements on firm level spillover effects from universities. Specifically, I test the proposition of co-location with universities affecting firm performance, taking advantage of a major policy reform in China, to identify distinct …
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The Nexus of State Regulation and Economic Development in Transition Economies (An empirical assessment using Central Asian countries)
… design of the regulatory framework and/or formal institutional arrangements. However, the current research argues that state regulation is a far more complex policy phenomenon, and actual regulatory environments could be considerably different from the formal de jure regulatory framework that the …
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Looking beyond decentralization : local institutional innovations for rural water supply in Kerala, India
… planned rural water schemes, alternative institutional arrangements for rural water management have focused on devolution of authority for decision making, design and operations to local governments. The aims of this reform are, in part, to increase the responsiveness of rural water …
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The role of institutions for the path dependent development of the wind energy industry in Germany and Britain
The key argument of this thesis is that institutional settings have a crucial impact on path dependent economic development. It is also argued that both formal and informal institutions play an important role. The contribution to knowledge lies in the unique combination of a path dependency …
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Public dimensions of private contracting: the institutional ordering of trans-sectoral exchange in the NHS
… order in these transactions with reference to an institutionalist theoretical model distinguishing: first, institutional environment (formal structure); second, institutional arrangements (relational structure); and third, the processes through which these institutional levels are mediated and …
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Why do European citizens support populism? A comparative study of demand-side and supply-side explanations
… two factors of the supply-side (i.e., liberal institutional arrangements and party competition). The results show that, first, populist parties attract significant support from citizens perceiving socially marginalised, especially in wealthy and globalised contexts; whereas sociotropic concerns …
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Can process facilitation re-route ecotourism development? : case studies in facilitating ecotourism planning in South Africa and Madagascar
… objectives include assessing the relations and institutional arrangements between RPs, assessing the flow of information within the networks andfinally comparing the institutional arrangements and RPs for each case study. These aspects were studied in the Richtersveld region in north-western …
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How do privileged insiders become change agents? A study of institutional volition
While we have a sense of why institutionally marginalized individuals or dominant actors become change agents, it is less clear what motivates privileged insiders - those who have reaped advantages from existing institutional arrangements because of their education, their socio-economic background, …
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Farming for supermarkets : its collective good problems and what Brazilian growers have done about them
… of supermarkets. It answers two questions: What institutional arrangements have growers used to resolve collective problems and what explains the differences in these arrangements in terms of what they achieve and whom they benefit. Brazilian fresh fruit growers have turned to a variety of …
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Potential for co-management approaches to strengthen livelihoods of forest-dependent communities: a case study of the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Service, Kenya
… research, informed either by the literature on institutional design and evaluation or by the literature on livelihood outcomes per se, without explicitly acknowledging and rigorously examining possible linkages between the two. Thus, a major gap in the current literature on the evaluation of …
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Market imperfections and the effectiveness of subcontracting and informal institutions in export market transactions in Ghana
… and the extent to which the chosen path of institutional arrangements enable them to reduce market imperfections, access resources, meet export market requirements and succeed in the export market. The literature posits that in the absence of effective state institutions, informal and …
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The Role of Trust in the Divergent Development of Alternative Lending Channels in the UK and Germany
… using its assumptions about the different institutional arrangements in liberal market economies (LMEs) and coordinated market economies (CMEs). Analysis of investor survey data and interviews provides a complimentary, trust-based explanation for these different development trajectories: …
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Adaptation and survival in government agencies : the case of western economic diversification Canada
… these results has been affected by a number of institutional arrangements. Western Economic Diversification Canada has survived by leveraging responsive competence and organizational autonomy with actors in the political process, including politicians, civil society, and other government …
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Class Formation in High-Tech Information and Communications as an Aspect of China's Reintegration Into Transnational Capitalism
… transnational trends and domestic policies and institutional arrangements. This dissertation specifically highlights the centrality of Chinese labor in this context. Shifting class relations and identities in the ICT industry comprise a sensitive and portentous field; my dissertation probes the …
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Public procurement fraud in Malaysia: A political economy approach
… by focusing on an unexplored area of the institutional arrangements between the state and businesses in Malaysia. The institutional arrangements between state and private sector appear to be legitimate, but they have the potential to conceal fraudulent practices, thus making fraud …
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