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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"community governance"”.
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Computational approaches for democratizing online community governance
Although democracy is a common real-world governance model, large swaths of the social media landscape are run in a quasi-dictatorial manner. From Usenet newsgroups to Reddit subreddits, online communities are managed by volunteer moderators who have sole authority to create and enforce community …
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The Impact of Community Governance Participation on the Sustainable Development of Chinese Property Management Companies
… management companies’ (CPMCs) involvement in community governance affects corporate sustainability, using neo-institutional theory (NIT) as a framework. A qualitative case study approach is adopted, incorporating thematic analysis of interviews with property managers, Local Street Office …
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How did governance in Acholi dovetail with violence?
… to explore interactions between two forms of community governance in Acholiland from 1898 to 2010, locating itself within Peace Studies. One form, kaka, was “traditional”, featuring varied forms of “facultative mutualisms” among two or more gangi agnates – with one gang as dominant in the …
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How did governance in Acholi dovetail with violence?
… to explore interactions between two forms of community governance in Acholiland from 1898 to 2010, locating itself within Peace Studies. One form, kaka, was “traditional”, featuring varied forms of “facultative mutualisms” among two or more gangi agnates – with one gang as dominant in the …
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How emerging technologies transform governance and market practices through disintermediation
… traditional gatekeepers, thereby transforming governance and market dynamics. Across three essays, I examine how disintermediation reshapes organizational resilience, market access, and participatory governance in blockchain-based systems. The first essay finds that DAOs with more concentrated …
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How emerging technologies transform governance and market practices through disintermediation
… traditional gatekeepers, thereby transforming governance and market dynamics. Across three essays, I examine how disintermediation reshapes organizational resilience, market access, and participatory governance in blockchain-based systems. The first essay finds that DAOs with more concentrated …
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The role of street committees in the governance of informal settlements : a case study from Waterworks Township, Grabouw
Community participation has become a key concept in research on the development and governance of underprivileged communities. It is on these grounds that the post-apartheid South African government has encouraged meaningful participation between local communities and the state, particularly …
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Fostering food security through local culture: Insights from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan
… vendors, consumers, and those involved in community governance. Underpinned by an interpretivist methodology, I aimed to record stories about the participants’ food concerns, challenges, food-related opportunities in their community, and their beliefs on the activities that can build the …
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How the New Labour Government Third Way policies (1998-2010) and the delivery of the New Deal for Communities (NDC) regeneration programme impacted on participation in health care in an area-based initiative. A longitudinal study using action-learning research methodology in a New Deal for Communities Area Based Initiative
… health inequalities, citizen involvement and community capacity. It captures the experiences of local community and front-line workers whilst delivering the Health Focus Group (HFG) in the NDC programme. Using action learning reflection techniques, the study analyses a purposeful sample of 15 …
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Understanding outer-urban governance: a case study of local government administration in Melbourne's north-west
… aims to provide an understanding of local governance in an outer metropolitan area of Melbourne. Through the examination of the policy framework that has established and maintained community governance in Victoria by the State Government from the period of local government amalgamations in …
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Collective Action and Everyday Politics of Smallholder Farmers in Ugbawka: Examining Local Realities and Struggles of Smallholder Rice Farmers
… that occur amongst actors are mediated at the community level through interplay of socio-cultural and political factors. This study recognises and places emphasis on understanding of agency and the exercise of agency at the local level arguing that smallholder farmers are not robot but active …
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Open source hardware entrepreneurship
… of dynamic design of organizational openness and community governance mechanism according to firm's business model and community's social needs, so that firms are able to exploit community value brought by being open and mitigate risks associated. Open source hardware entrepreneurship can serve as …
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Operationalizing rights-based approaches to development: a study of state and non-state duty-bearers in Odisha, India
… of RBA. The second asks what specific governance strategies are used by the state to operationalise RBAs. The third looks at how “lived experiences” of grassroots state duty-bearers impacts on the practice of RBA. The fourth question seeks to identify different development issues, and …
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Community centred health promotion and prevention in an Australian context
… be prevented with better evidence based and community based health promotion strategies. Guided by a philosophy of idealism, the aim of this thesis was to develop a community centred health promotion strategy to assist the improvement of health and the prevention of chronic disease in an …
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The Development and Management of Gated Communities in China: The Case of Shanghai from a New Institutionalist Perspective
… of local governments in urban development and community governance. Drawing upon new institutionalism and using a primarily qualitative research method, the research investigates not only who has more power over whom and the degrees of power imbalance, but also what types of power are borne by …
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An investigation of models of community-based low-carbon distributed energy systems in Nigeria
This thesis undertakes research into community-based low-carbon distributed energy systems in Nigeria. It focuses the socio-technical factors of the development and operation of community energy systems, ranging from increasing population and economic growth to the issues of climate change and …
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The concept and practice of 'enabling' local housing authorities.
… the 'reinvention' of new roles centred around 'community governance'; (d) the implications that all these developments had in relation to the internal organisational structure and management processes of the two authorities.In examining the practice of enabling housing authorities, this thesis …
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Communicable Diseases Epidemiology
… age than non-Indigenous people. Aboriginal community governance over the public health actions that arose from this analysis is provided in detail. I led an investigation into a large protracted outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium with a novel multi-locus variable number tandem repeat …
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Communicable Diseases Epidemiology
… age than non-Indigenous people. Aboriginal community governance over the public health actions that arose from this analysis is provided in detail. I led an investigation into a large protracted outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium with a novel multi-locus variable number tandem repeat …
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