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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Institutional models"”.
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Predictors of Intercultural Competence Among International Volunteers
… conditions of IVS vary greatly across program models, nearly all claim that volunteering will increase intercultural competence. Contact theory, transformative learning theory, and various stage theories of intercultural learning all suggest, however, that cultural contact will only improve a …
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Minimum Wage: Theoretical and Empirical Debates
… contrasting perspectives of the neoclassical and institutional models. By examining the changes in research methodologies employed by economists from these two schools, this study seeks to shed the light on the shifting paradigms and the impact of these changes on our understanding of minimum wage …
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A better way to grow? : land readjustment through town planning schemes in Ahmedabad
… house the poor. This thesis suggests alternative institutional models with which TP schemes could be made more efficient, and which would allow landowners to have greater control over the process.
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… art practices. I suggest select artists enact institutional critiques that aspire for a radically different art world by first engaging with an expansive understanding of existing conditions. To do so, I take up queer feminist art theory that expands the remit of institutional critique to …
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When Rules and Common Sense Collide: Expressions, Roots, and Impact of Informal Civil Society in Ukraine
… Eastern Europe in efforts to replicate their own institutional models as a way of reconstructing the region’s post-totalitarian civil society. These efforts resulted in limited success, frustrating the donor community and puzzling scholars. Civil society in the region has long been labeled as weak …
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Towards an Inclusive Multinational Society in Myanmar : Ethnic Perceptions and State Building
… of ethnic groups has been gradually institutionalised. Thus, in order to support peace, one of the main challenges of state building in Myanmar will be to develop institutions that reflect the multinational character of the country. In this thesis, I argue that more attention should …
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Democratisation of Local Government and Local Governance in Kazakhstan
… democracies, and is implementing various institutional and economic reforms. This requires effective government and a public governance mechanism that would ensure taking into account both national and local needs for development. Given its vast territory, small population, and undeveloped …
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Investigating the impact of institutional forces on the operations of an organisation-implemented ERP system in a developing country
… government regulations. ERP systems are built on institutional models, procedures and forces that set the rules of rationale and these forces serve to bind implementing organisations to fundamental choices about how organisational operations and processes should be organised. Limited studies have …
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Socio-historical perspectives on young fatherhood: exploration of social change on the Isle of Sheppey
… which is in need of changing, rather than institutional models (SEU, 1999). However, evidence from this study has shown that there have been fewer changes in the behaviour, attitudes and perceptions of fatherhood from the perspectives of the young fathers themselves over the past sixty …
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Valstybių prevencinė savigyna: teisiniai ir politiniai aspektai /
… sanctioning the usage of preventive force. Three institutional models that enable to increase the efficiency of the UNSC directly and indirectly while dealing with the usage of preventive force issues and sanctioning it are analyzed in the paper. The possible usage of Israel’s preventive …
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The Conflict-Cooperation Nexus. Politicisation, Security and Domestic Institutions in EU-Russia Energy Relations
… the study seeks to contribute to the analysis of institutionalisation of energy relations and to reveal factors that lead to cooperative or conflictual outcomes. So far, IR research inquiries in the field have prioritised resource and normative determinisms in addressing the success or failure of …