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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Institutional reform"”.
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Institutional Reform in Support of Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign
… campaign represents not merely an institutional inflection point in China’s supervisory architecture substantially enhancing enforcement capacity and elite discipline, but also the enforcement–perception interactive change, reproducing an asymmetry between punishment and public …
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Labor market adjustment to globalization, automation, and institutional reform
… (IV). Chapter I analyzes Germany's 2005 Hartz IV reform, which lowered the generosity of longterm UI benefits available once short-term benefits run out. Using administrative records, I exploit cross-worker heterogeneity in the timing of when Hartz IV bites to estimate how long-term benefit cuts …
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The candidate countries and institutional reform of the European Union
… to its past unnatural division. The need to reform the institutions of the Union in order to prepare them for the accession of new members had been acknowledged for a long time. But it was not until the European Council meeting in Nice in December 2000 when the Intergovernmental Conference2 …
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Tocqueville's revenge--dilemmas of institutional reform in post-dirigiste France
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1994.
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Sustainable metropolitan mobility and public-private partnerships : a highway to institutional reform?
… theory suggests that both sectors offer unique institutional attributes critical to achieving sustainable metropolitan mobility (SMM). The question is how to optimally configure institutions to address the challenge of SMM for metropolitan transportation infrastructure delivery? Focusing on …
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‘The Political Economy of Non-Recurrence: Navigating National Healing, Institutional Reform & Militarisation in Zimbabwe'
… deliberations on how to navigate prospects for reform, in understanding the politics of non-recurrence when contextualising systemic as well as physical violence. The thesis aims to contribute to ongoing discussions on political leadership, national healing, and institutional reform in Zimbabwe.
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
Institutional reform in mental healthcare started in the eighteenth century with the construction of a small number of facilities in Dublin and Cork specifically for the treatment of mental illness. The 1800s witnessed the construction of an extensive network of district lunatic asylums in two …
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Montessori Goes to Seminary: Establishing a Framework for Redemptive Formation in Theological Higher Education
… by proposing a potentially viable mechanism for institutional reform, namely the Montessori method. Although Maria Montessori is widely known as an early childhood educator, this study suggests that her approach aligns quite well with the telos of theological education, the formation of man. …
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Times of change? Insights into the Government of India's water policy and management response to climate change
… and orientation of the Indian government's water institutional approach compounds this challenge, due to the1r focus on large-scale infrastructure-based supply-side water management. This research takes an interdisciplinary political ecology approach to examine the Indian hydrocracy's response, …
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Quiet conflict : social movements, institutional change, and upgrading informal settlements in South Africa
… shown that significant opportunities for formal institutional change occur through relationships of both contestation and collaboration between such movements and state institutions, especially at the local level. Such a relatively underexplored mechanism of institutional reform enables us to …
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Output performance, institutions and structural policy reforms for transition economies
… The second group consists of two categories of institutional development (INST), and the third group of variables is structural policy reforms (SPR), often known as liberalization policies. This dissertation’s theoretical and empirical framework explicitly account for the endogeneity between …
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What’s Happening Here? A Literature Review and Autoethnography Exploring the Intersection Between US Higher Education Reform, Management Consulting Firms, and Racial Equity and Justice Through a Black Feminist Lens
… with management consulting firms to implement institutional reform. Equity-focused scholars and practitioners across public higher education institutions are finding dynamic solutions to advancing equity in higher education. However, there is little research at the intersection of these realms. …
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Doubting Thomas: A Study of Thomas Hobbes's Post-Restoration Dialogues
… is a departure from the more formal program of institutional reform that he proposed in his science.</p>
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A descriptive study of the status of school-based management in the public elementary schools of Virginia
The thrust for institutional reform and desire for accountability has caused important changes in school districts across the nation. In many schools, authority is shifting from the central office to the school, and both parents and teachers are assuming more responsibility for making decisions …
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The Democratic Deficit in American Policing
… First, I evaluate an increasingly common institutional reform in municipal governance – civilian oversight boards. This research demonstrates that oversight boards are systematically underpowered and unable to improve police behavior. Second, I examine civilian coproduction of …
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The automotive industry: The potential for sustainable regional cooperation
… there are regional actors who stand to gain from institutional reform, enhancing the prospects of sustained regional cooperation in the automotive industry. Further, it is concluded that, while the supply side conditions are unambiguously satisfied currently, there is potential for clear regional …
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The effects of labour policies in the Piedmont Region of Italy on equity in the labour market: reflections on women in Labour
… in social policy. It considers whether policy reforms and subsequent provision of information with regards to the issue of parental leave and part-time work arrangements, makes an impact on gender equity in the labour market (Del Boca, 2002; Naldini & Saraceno, 2008). Giddens' theory of …
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Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017
… How do these relations affect the direction of institutional reform? This project does not attempt to develop a general model of the political influence of public sector labor unions, but it does identify the potential for and limits to their policy entrepreneurship in an environment that should …
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Building the new Europe : soft security and organised crime in EU enlargement
… in Bulgaria and its EU-guided criminal justice reform. The thesis looks at these developments from both internal and external perspective and focuses on the practicalities of the policy itself such as the development of legislative changes, institutional reform and direct transfer of Western …
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Institutionalization as a contributing factor in antisocial behaviour : implications for statutory social work practice
… behaviour were examined in the light of institutional and community-based management options. An overview of the literature is presented in order to place the concepts of institutional care, community-based options and legal reform in perspective. These literature studies provided the …
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