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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"institutional analysis"”.
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Agenda-setting in the states: An institutional analysis
… and the preferences and the influence of other institutional actors. The analyses also control for the effects of interest organizations and select socio-economic factors. Redistributive "agenda space," defined as the proportion of state policy agendas devoted to redistributive issues out of …
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Promoting an affordable housing market: an institutional analysis
… is not economically feasible, largely due to the institutional constraints of land and credit. This thesis reports on a case study of housing provision and the potential for a market in affordable housing in Raipur, India, an urban centre with a million-plus population. This included surveys of …
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An Institutional Analysis of the Chinese Land Conversion Process
… functions reasonably well given the existing institutional arrangements, though at high transaction costs. However, the land conversion process, governed largely by the law of the jungle, is highly unfair because it favors the powerful, the bold and the wealthy. The recent piecemeal policies …
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Constitutional change in the United Kingdom: an institutional analysis
… of the UK constitution based upon Dicey's analysis and the Westminster model of British politics. It is argued that these models can no longer provide the analytical toolkits necessary to unlock the nature and scope of power in British politics. It also questions the efficacy of micro level …
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Patient Falls in the Acute Care Setting: An Institutional Analysis
<p>An index of falls risk characteristics was designed and applied in a retrospective review of the medical charts of 106 patients who fell and 109 patients who did not fall during the first six months of 1989 in a large, upper midwestem hospital. The index was used to obtain information described …
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An institutional analysis of change in China's forest policy 1949- 2009
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Forestry, 2009
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THE WEST AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA DRUG TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC; AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
<p>"West Africa, like any other region in the world, has had to swallow its fair share of modern-day political, economic and social dilemmas. One phenomenon that has had huge negative implications on the political, economic and social spheres of almost every country on the face of the earth is the …
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An Institutional Analysis of Reforming the *State. The Case of Peru
… of path dependency implies that an exogenous institutional change will not alter the pattern of growth in developing countries, such as Peru, as dramatically as policy makers and some scholars would expect. Our study argues that permanent effects may be derived from exogenous institutional …
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An economic and institutional analysis of community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe
This thesis focuses on the economics and institutional aspects of community wildlife conservation in the context of local communities living adjacent to the Gonarezhou NationalPark in Zimbabwe. A significant proportion of wildlife in Zimbabwe, and in Southern Africa in general, is managed as a …
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A neo-institutional analysis of opposition structures in the South African Parliament
… South African Parliament. The basis of the neo-Institutional analysis is the premise that the behaviour of actors within a system (in this case, Members of Parliament within Parliament) is shaped by the rules and structure of that system. As such, the opposition behaviour of parties and …
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Trust in Water: An Institutional Analysis of China's Urban Tap Water Provision System
This thesis presents a comprehensive institutional analysis of China’s urban tap water provision system from a ‘source to sip’ holistic research perspective. With the examination of each agent’s function in the system, this thesis coins the concepts of semi-potable tap water and Hybrid …
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Institutional Analysis of a Natural History Museum: Formation and dissemination of scientific knowledge
… and historical records. Results from this analysis show that institutional operations within a museum persist in influencing the selection of knowledge forming fields of study in both direct and indirect ways and add to the literature on scientific knowledge. </p>
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It's all in a day's work : an institutional analysis of the rehabilitation system
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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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 comparative institutional analysis of public and private operations in the urban water sector
… The research focuses upon the comparative institutional analysis of public and private operations of urban water supply and sanitation services in developed, transition and developing countries. This topic is of scholarly relevance because the debate on the relative efficiency of public and …
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Chameleons in the city: An institutional analysis of sales agents in Sydney’s new apartment market
… in existing research. This thesis presents an institutional theory-based conceptual model to investigate the embeddedness of PM actions and relations within institutional ‘structures’. The key question is how PMs evolve over a market cycle to influence market outcomes as key ‘institutions’, or …
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Battle for the Floodplains: An Institutional Analysis of Water Management and Spatial Planning in England
… Furthering interpretative research and discourse analysis to tap and explain belief and knowledge systems rather than rational ‘fluvial systems’ per se, the thesis delves deeper than previous research, into the mind sets and ‘irrationalities’ of actors’ practices on the floodplain. The policy …
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Moving beyond the apple orchard: The institutional analysis of the construction of Washtenaw Community College
<p>The purpose of the study was to understand the institutional forces that constructed and shaped the function, nature of funding, and governance of Washtenaw Community College (WCC). To do this, I studied the founding and development of WCC using organizational theory. This qualitative, …
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The role of local government in combating HIV/AIDS in South Africa: An institutional analysis
… are lacking within local government. These same institutional arrangements would help ensure that increased funding actually does translate into service delivery to affected communities.
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Housing on the installment plan : an economic and institutional analysis of contract buying in Chicago
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980.
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