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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Institutionalism"”.
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Religious education and the problem of institutionalism
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1944 [Page numbering error repeats page 3]
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The Proliferation of Gated Communities in Ghana: A New Institutionalism Perspective
… move into gated communities. Drawing upon new institutionalism and using a mixed research method, the research presents the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. It finds that the institutional landscape in Ghana's built environment creates both direct and indirect incentives that …
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Historical Institutionalism and Defense Public Procurement: The Case of Other Transactions Agreements
… methods, and drawing on the OT and historical institutionalism literature, this study explores institutional factors that may explain why DoD has not more widely used OTs. The study relied on interviews with DoD employees and contractors. OT case studies were used to triangulate the interview …
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Historic Institutionalism and urban morphology in Jakarta: Drawing the link between flood policy and impacts on urban form & social sustainability
… form of North Jakarta in real time. Historical institutionalism is utilised as an analytical approach to understand the characteristics of planning decisions and the culture of institutions and decision-making, how certain approaches have come to be relied on, and the manner in which it has …
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EU politics and the making of the General Data Protection Regulation: Consociationalism, policy networks and institutionalism in the process of balancing actor interests
… stress non-linear policy-making dynamics, and institutionalism, which highlights the significance of institutions. On the whole, the GDPR as approved strengthened the ICT users’ rights, although not to the degree originally envisaged. The study proposes that institutional factors were decisive …
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Power realism versus normative institutionalism in the Council of Europe – The responses of the Organisation to the political and legal challenges to effective multilateralism
… power human rights instruments, the “normative institutionalism” and the classical, “power” realism. The dissertation aims to present one political (suspension of voting rights of the Russian parliamentary delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) and one legal case …
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A HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALIST ACCOUNT OF GALILEO SATELLITE NAVIGATION.
… cases of France and Italy. It uses historical institutionalism to illustrate how institutional changes centered on the European Union caused this change. It also contributes to historical institutionalism by introducing speed controls.
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The institutional effects of the Scottish Parliament upon organised interests.
… - rational choice, sociological and historical institutionalism “ is more applicable than the other two in certain circumstances. Sociological institutionalism is the most applicable new institutionalist approach in explaining behaviour during the bringing about of change; historical …
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Normative Orders in the Coast Guard Response to Melting Arctic Ice: Institutional Logics or Anchoring Concepts
… in institutional dynamics. Two meta-theories of institutionalism offer competing visions of how these normative orders are invoked. The Institutional Logics Perspective calls normative orders “institutional logics” and suggest that they are invoked in a consistent stable fashion. The Pragmatist …
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Integration theory for the Europe of Maastricht
… such as neofunctionalism and intergovernmental institutionalism, are insufficient to explain the development of the European Community and its successor, the European Union, the latter established in the Treaty on European Union signed at Maastricht in February 1992.
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Building A Military Security Cooperation Regime in Northeast Asia: Feasibility and Design
… Research findings confirm that neoliberal institutionalism is the approach most compatible with the goal of building a regional security regime. The study argues that realism--the theory which posits that the purpose of international relations is to maximize state power--has inherent …
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Institutional influence on the manifestation of entrepreneurial orientation: A case of social investment funders
Linking the new institutionalism to entrepreneurial orientation (EO), my dissertation investigates institutional forces and entrepreneurial forces—two contradicting types of forces—as main effects and moderating effects upon practices and performance of organizations embedded in the institutional …
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An Institutional Analysis of Differences: The Design of Masters' Programs in Public Affairs
Early studies in the sociological stream of new institutionalism contributed much to the study of organization, especially in illuminating organizational isomorphism that might appear in organizational fields. Yet, at the same time, they were limited in accounting for organizational differences in …
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A dynamic two-level theory of state implosion: The cases of Lebanon, Algeria, and Yugoslavia
… state implosion. Realism, neorealism, neoliberal institutionalism, and constructivism posit the existence and stability of states, but do not offer a theory of state formation, preservation or implosion. They assume what has to be demonstrated.
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The grammar of money : an analytical account of money as a discursive institution in light of the practice of complementary currencies
… of currencies with the methodologies of neo-institutionalism, practice theory and critical discourse analysis. This will here be demonstrated in a transdisciplinary triangulation concerning three sets of data from the diverse field of complementary currencies, the publications of the Bank of …
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The institutional forces that impact on the understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the form of social partnerships in the Peruvian Mining industry
… in Peru. The literature review shows that New institutionalism theory is a suitable theoretical framework as it analyses these three elements of institutionalism that shape the logic of behaviour of Peruvian native and non-native people towards CSR, including: regulative, represented by law; …
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Business and the state in Malawi:the politics of institutional formation, maintenance and change
… of this. Thirdly, it contributes to historical institutionalism by suggesting that the concept of critical junctures should be defined based on people’s expectations for, rather than effects of, institutional change; that history should be emphasised not just for explaining institutional …
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