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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Institutional Design"”.
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Essays on Political Institutions and Institutional Design
… deriving, whenever possible, implications for institutional design. The first chapter studies the main factors that determine the constitutional preferences of citizens over the form of government. We focus on the case of Brazil, where a referendum in 1993 allowed the population to choose …
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The Institutional Design of Arms Control: To What Extent Does Institutional Design Increase the Longevity of Arms Control Agreements?
<p>The technical institutional design of arms control agreements remains a rather unexplored area of arms control. But the increasing uncertainty of future arms control efficacy requires a re-examination of the agreements’ institutional design to determine which components contribute positively to …
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Who Sets the Template? Institutional Design Replication in Interlocal Agreements
… paid little attention to how collaboration is designed. This dissertation examines whether the institutional designs embedded in interlocal agreements emerge independently or recur across jurisdictions, using Iowa's archive of Section 28E agreements (1993–2020) and a combination of …
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The institutional design of intra-party democracy through legal instruments: Turkish case
The importance of political parties for contemporary representative democracies is beyond dispute. Despite their significance for state-level democracy, political parties continue to be regarded as oligarchical and to be criticised because of their internal practices. For this reason, intra-party …
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Justice in Action: Assessing the Institutional Design and Implementation of Transitional Justice
… truth commissions and ad-hoc tribunals, are designed and how well they are implemented. Variation in terms of policy structure (or institutional design) and implementation are currently unknown; knowing what the level of this variation is will enable us to understand the impact these …
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Perceptions of electoral fairness : public behaviour and institutional design compared across 80 countries
… models of electoral management body (EMB) design, both of which focus on evaluating the merits of EMB independence or autonomy from the ruling government. Once again, the approach is to examine as many aspects of electoral management design as possible across as many regions as possible. …
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Perceptions of electoral fairness : public behaviour and institutional design compared across 80 countries
… models of electoral management body (EMB) design, both of which focus on evaluating the merits of EMB independence or autonomy from the ruling government. Once again, the approach is to examine as many aspects of electoral management design as possible across as many regions as possible. …
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Addressing agricultural salinity in the American West : harnessing behavioral diversity to institutional design
… on engineered structures for its water supply. Institutional solutions are preferable, being usually cheaper, quicker, and more reversible than infrastructure. Market institutions - water quality trading markets - have been often applied in the past to deal with salinity problems, but have been …
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Institutional design for IVHS in Osaka : applying the concept of ISTEA in Japan
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Voluntary Environmental Programs: An Examination of Program Performance and the Role of Institutional Design
… Programs to reduce emissions and the role of institutional design on their performance. Specifically, this study aimed to identify if specific features influence performance more than others do. The indicator of performance focuses on the overall emission reductions of firms across years …
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Welfare Deservingness Perceptions of Single Mothers in Hungary: Institutional Design, Government Discourse, and Public Attitudes
… The dissertation uses a complex research design to explore the social legitimacy of these changes, and investigates not only the public attitudes towards single mothers’ state support, but also the factors that could shape it. First, it reviews the historical-institutional design of single …
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The Effect of Institutional Design and Voter Reasons on the Prevalence of Local Recall Elections
… representation and accountability. A state’s institutional design for the activation and operation of the recall device and a proponent’s stated rationale are reasoned to be significant factors in explaining the frequency of recalls at the local level. Twenty-three states permit the recall of …
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We Were Never Meant to Stay: Guardianship and the Institutional Design Behind the Attrition of Minoritized Student Affairs Professionals
… frequently privatize departure, obscuring the institutional logics and affective economies of higher education. This qualitative study explores attrition of minoritized student affairs professionals (MSAPs) by situating their experiences within systems of institutional governance, affective …
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Designing economic democracy Boston Ujima Project's participatory allocation process
… processes in two cities to help guide the institutional design of Boston Ujima Project's participatory allocation process. Grassroots-led organization Boston Ujima Project is developing a democratically-governed Capital Fund by integrating community participation in deliberation and …
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Sustainability Discourses on Controversial Infrastructure Development: Investigating their Mobilization in Environmental Impact Assessment
… into account. Premised on the differences in institutional design and political culture between the UK and the Netherlands, the thesis aims to investigate whether and how the external influence exerted by institutions and political culture on public engagement is manifested in the mobilization …
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Accountability and regulatory governance in a cross-jurisdictional market: a case study of the all-island energy market (Ireland)
… explores, through the lens of historical institutionalism, the issue of regulatory accountability in the case of the cross-jurisdictional energy market on the island of Ireland which has evolved to implement European and domestic energy policy goals. The research considers the issue of …
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Global Governance for Global Goals: Private Market Standardization via the UN Global Compact and ISO 9001 Diffusion
… this research models an interconnected institutional design theory of global governance where firms signal their extrinsic motivations for sustainable development to their stakeholders. While firm participation in the UNGC is cheaper and has a less formal accountability mechanism than a …
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International Cooperation in Arms Control: Building Security Regimes to Contain Missile Proliferation
The final section of this study examines the institutional design, scope, and domain of the missile regime. It notes the advantages of expanding the missile regime's scope beyond supply-side technology barriers to build more politically robust nonproliferation institutions that would counter …
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