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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Institutional Failure"”.
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Sexual Violence, Rape Culture, and the Ethics of Care in <em>Promising Young Woman</em> (2020), <em>Blink Twice</em> (2024), and <em>Women Talking</em> (2022)
… the persistence of rape culture and the systemic failure of institutions to support victims of sexual violence. Drawing on scholarship about rape culture, this analysis shows how the rape myths and institutional gaslighting depicted in these films function to dismiss victims’ testimonies, …
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Building community capacity in the rebuilding of New Orleans : the role of philanthropic funders post-Katrina
… are fighting to meet new needs. With massive institutional failure at all levels, philanthropy could support these groups. The purpose of this thesis is to help the Gulf Coast Funders for Equity, a consortium committed to more equitable redevelopment, think strategically about how to allocate …
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Institutional Betrayal in the Medical System: Development, Realiability, and Validity of a Self-Report Questionnaire
… additional psychological harm to victims, is institutional betrayal (IB), an institutional failure to respond supportively to a traumatic event (Smith & Freyd, 2013). The medical system is an important, but as of yet unstudied institution with regard to betrayal. The frequency of medical …
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Dimensions of Recreancy in the Context of Winter Storm Uri
… State of Texas was heavily affected due to the institutional failure of Texas's primary power provider, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Despite similar previous storms that exposed weaknesses in the state's power grid system in 1999 and 2011, ERCOT did not make the necessary …
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Barriers to SME lending in Nigeria finding context-specific solutions
… institutions. Perceived as a credit market failure, the economics literature ascribes these credit shortages to problems of informational asymmetry and institutional failure, and in turn, these two issues have dominated the applied research on the subject. This thesis contends that small …
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Assessment of ordinary consumer representation in liberalised mobile telecommunications markets: a case study of Nigeria
… public interest and in the context of policy and institutional failure (what happens after policies are adopted?). It focuses on aspects of compliance monitoring and enforcement; areas that do not receive adequate attention in policy literature. The study is conducted using the New Institutional …
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The 'formalisation dilemma' of artisanal and small-scale mining: an analysis with reference to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
… between the rise in ASM activities and state or institutional failure and concludes by recommending various solutions to this so-called ‘formalisation dilemma'.
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Braiding Education, Workforce, and Community: Designing Cohesive Learning Systems for Democracy and Mobility
… to better align opportunity, contribution, and institutional trust. Grounded in youth voice and lived experience, particularly youth furthest from opportunity, this integrated research–practice dissertation examines how fragmented learning and labor-market pathways are experienced and how …
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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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State, Conflict and Political Economy of Oil in Nigeria
… the oil conflict in the Niger Delta to failure of democratization to address decades of conflict, politicization of ethnicity, descent to terminal spoils via oil bunkering and flaws in the country’s federalism. The study critically interrogates the legal/institutional as well as …