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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"critical junctures"”.
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The role of politics in the construction of a capable bureaucracy
… in which the agency of political actors is critical and that public reforms often spawn from particular critical junctures. This research undertakes a comparative study of South Korea, Unites States of America and South Africa, and juxtaposing the first two comparators with South Africa in …
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BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL AND ONTOLOGICAL (IN)SECURITY: THE BALTIC STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION’S RESPONSE TO RUSSIA’S MILITARY INTERVENTIONS IN GEORGIA (2008) AND UKRAINE (2014)
… the Baltic states experienced the two crises as critical junctures that activated linked existential and ontological security concerns rooted in their liminal condition. The two critical junctures, featuring Moscow’s use of military force against two smaller neighbours formerly part of its …
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Land, history, and housing: Colonial legacies and land tenure in Greater Kuala Lumpur
… processes that were instigated at specific critical junctures in the country’s colonial history. This research utilizes historical institutionalist concepts and analytical approaches to reconceptualize existing constraints in the land and housing markets in Greater KL. Findings from the …
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The global landscape of gender quotas on corporate boards : contexts for adoption and opposition in 2014
… for policy makers such as the use of critical junctures and the media become apparent.
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Withholding Language: ambiguity and precision in the education of an architect
In the education of an architect, at certain critical junctures, there is a need to withhold language. While passage to non-linguistic representation is at times vexing, the existence of memories and images delays the inevitable appropriation of architecture by language. Holding language in …
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Progressive Paradox in Political Rhetoric: The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965
… a foundational authoritative source invoked in critical junctures to legitimize actions as morally sanctioned and aligned with divine or natural order. Even in times of significant social upheaval, such as the transformative1960s, overarching norms of inclusion and exclusion persistently evade …
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The Malayan Dilemma: Race, Power and State Formation in Malaya
… failure to undo the effects of racialisation at critical junctures during the colonial eras reinforced the salience of the three race categories examined here, charging race with a new lease of life in defining the postcolonial state. Although this study focuses only on Malaya, it offers a …
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Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics
… since the 1950s. In particular, I expose critical junctures such as the unification of the legal system and the resulting diversification of the profession in the 1950s, the tripling of Law Schools and concurrent dismantling of the welfare state in the 1980s, and the mounting state …
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A Soft Competition Among Arbitral Institutions: The institutional oligopoly of mixed arbitration.
… bureaucrats and arbitration experts during critical junctures, followed by subsequent path-dependent developments. This dynamic is historically embedded in the emergence of administered forms of contract-based mixed arbitration, which set the scene for the arrival of ICSID and the …
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The re-design of rural governance : New institutions for old?
… the role of ideas in responding to crises and critical junctures. The study proceeds through the construction of structured policy narratives over the period from the war to the present. The study contrasts the development of productivist regimes in the UK and the European Community and reveals …
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Justifying Coercion: Nurses' Experiences Medicating Involuntary Psychiatric Patients
… Taking Coercive Action. There are two distinct “critical junctures,” Decision to Engage and Impasse, which define the transitions from one stage to the next. The process continues after each instance of forced medication with the goal of replacing coercion with voluntary acceptance of medication …
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Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder Rethinking Germany’s response to irregular migration
… to the boundaries of the political community. At critical junctures in its recent history the influx of irregular migrants was, thus, framed as a threat to Germany’s social and political order. Fear-inspired concerns with representatives’ perceived decisiveness can be traced into a series of …
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Business and the state in Malawi:the politics of institutional formation, maintenance and change
… 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 continuities as is done by most historical …
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Monetary statecraft and the making of modern macroeconomic governance in Britain, 1947-1997
… on mechanisms of institutional reproduction and critical junctures. Yet it argues that many accounts of these same historical processes are overly reliant on structural-functional determinants of institutional change and fail to recognise the importance of political agency. It develops the …
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Evaluating the Substantive Representation of Women and Domestic Violence Legislation in England and Wales: a Critical Path Approach
… Serious Crime Act 2015. This thesis employs a critical path framework and uses this framework to research the impact of substantive representation regarding this specific category of legislation. In addition to utilizing this framework, the main aims of this thesis include: drawing conclusions …
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Being Black: A study of Black panethnicity in the United States
… historical and contemporary data reveals three critical junctures in the development of black panethnicity. 1) In the first critical juncture, black panethnicity emerged out of black slavery as a result of the racialization of distinct African tribes into the category of black and the resolve of …
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Presidential, Post-Imperial and Personal: Envoy Diplomacy in Japan, 1960s-1980s
… (yet understudied) role in some of the most critical junctures of postwar Japanese history. This dissertation examines their role in the mediation of the Indonesia-Malaysia dispute of 1963-66, led by LDP vice-president Kawashima Shōjirō; the 1972 reversion of Okinawa from US military …
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Policy implementation and coordination capacity: a case study of the state s capacity to implement the National Integrated Early Childhood Development policy in a district in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
… Cape province. Howlett's (2018) multiple streams/critical junctures policy framework was applied to make sense of the implementation realities that plague the ECD sector. To deepen the understanding of coordination capacity – aspirational and existing - Wu et al's (2015) policy capacity matrix …
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The Early Stages of Collaborative Commercialisation of Science: What Enables and Constrains the Development of Generic Technologies
… decisions over time. Third, decisions taken at critical junctures committed collaborations to particular development trajectories, thereby enabling some paths while constraining others. Fourth, formal governance arrangements were introduced in response to technological development, but these …
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LABOURING TO TEACH: ACCOUNTING FOR POLICY TRANSFORMATIONS IN TEACHERS' LABOUR AND INSTITUTIONAL REGIMES IN CHILE BETWEEN 1980-2021
… and social reproduction. The research draws on a critical realist approach to Process Tracing, and examines the events, actors, and social forces that converged to shape the current teacher accountability policy ensemble. It combines policy analysis with corpus linguistics, critical discourse …
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