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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Institutional Legitimacy"”.
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A Difficult Conversation: The News Media and the Story of the First Peoples of Canada
… changed. This thesis concludes more information, institutional legitimacy, indigenous activism, indigenous journalists, and a digital vista have all influenced the continuity and the evolution in the way the indigenous story is told by the news media in Canada.
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Fracturing Illinois: Fields of Political Contention in Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Policy
… impact of differential resources, expertise, and institutional legitimacy. Using data from interviews with organization leaders from industry and environmental coalitions, key informants from government bureaus, and participant observation at public meetings, my research contributes to the …
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Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Effects of Women Correctional Officers on Prison VIolence
… and a crucial aspect of achieving staff and institutional legitimacy involves treating inmates in a procedurally just fashion. Literature suggests that procedural justice in prisons relies on comprehensive care; inmates require dignity, respect, safety, and individualized treatment focused on …
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Risky business : the negotiation and management of work-related risk by patient-attendants and prostitutes
… working environment, for example with respect to institutional legitimacy in the hospital versus illegitimacy and stigma on the street, provide an interesting context in which to study the effects of occupational organization on risk management by workers. This study applies a qualitative and …
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Institutional Responses to Racial Incidents in California Public Higher Education: A Qualitative Historical Document Analysis
… Times reporting, the study analyzed 72 official institutional response texts linked to 56 distinct racial incidents. To systematically evaluate this discourse, incidents were organized into an eight-category incident typology (Categories A–H). Additionally, the study identified 23 campus-linked …
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"Frontline in Mental Healthcare": A Discourse Analytic Clinical Ethnography of Crisis Intervention Team Trainings for Corrections
… issues of race and class that might undermine institutional legitimacy. The recent adoption of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Trainings in corrections is exemplary of <em>corrections-reform</em> discourse. ‘Crisis’ comes from the Greek <em>krinein</em>, meaning ‘to decide.’ The crisis in mental …
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The role of accounting control systems in the show caves in Greece.
The thesis uses the New Institutional Theory of Sociology (Di Maggio and Powell, 1983, 1991) to examine how accounting informs decision making in the Greek show caves. The study focuses on four show caves selected out of the eight main shows caves operating in Greece. Three of the studied caves are …
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External Constraints and Internal Norms on the U.S. Supreme Court
… justices' pursuit of ideological objectives and institutional ones. In other words, I address the questions why the Court can come to consensus at all and why do individual justices join the majority coalition against their sincere policy preferences. Drawing from scholarship on the Court’s …
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Measuring epistemic trust: towards a new lens for democratic legitimacy, misinformation, and echo chambers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms