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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"institutional constraints"”.
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Understanding entrepreneurial resilience development within institutional constraints: a case of Ghana.
… how entrepreneurs developed resilience within institutional constraints at the lived experience level. This is a qualitative research based on several assumptions of the phenomenological paradigm. The research describes the experiences of thirty-four participants - twenty-three practising …
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Institutional constraints to innovative technology for municipal wastewater treatment : a Greater Boston case study
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Institutional Constraints and Bolivian Agrarian Development During the Pre-Agrarian Reform and Post-Agrarian Reform Periods
The examination of the political economy of the land redistribution according to the agrarian reform law shows that the insecurity and restrictive nature of land tenure defined in the agrarian reform law led to reduced capital investments, extensive land use and poverty. Less restrictive property …
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State-Level Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: Assessing Recovery from the 2007 Recession
… to test the impact of government spending, institutional constraints, and economic policy climates on economic growth, this research shows that government spending has a positive impact on growth that decreases into a negative impact over time. Additionally, institutional constraints are …
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Rubber Stamps and Litmus Tests: The President, the Senate, and Judicial Voting Behavior in Abortion Cases in the U.S. Federal District Courts
… on how well indicators of judicial ideology and institutional constraints predict whether a judge will vote to increase abortion access. I develop a model that evaluates a judge's decision in an abortion case in light of ideological factors measured at the time of a judge's nomination to the …
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A history of dance and jazz band performance in the Western Cape in the post-1945 era
… change in this period by considering key institutional constraints, the impact of broader political, social and cultural change, and local responses to this change. Primary data was collected from oral biographical material, archives, official printed sources, and newspaper reports.
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Mathematical modeling of urban water management strategies
… from the analysis are the costs of various institutional constraints which may re-strict the decision makers' ability to implement optimal policies. Some of the institutional constraints which have been quantified include the legal interpretation of water right laws, public sentiment towards …
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Minor parties and democratic governance in Ghana's fourth republic, 1992 - 2022
… motivation for electoral competition; the constraints on their electoral success; and their contributions to Ghana’s democratic governance. The study was based on a multiple-case study research design, relying on semi-structured in-depth interviews and observation to generate qualitative …
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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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Interest Group Politics in U.S. "Social Housing" Experiments
… this thesis examines how political context, institutional constraints, and coalition dynamics influence how social housing proposals are framed, negotiated, and either supported or resisted by key stakeholders. Four key themes emerge from these case studies. First, existing affordable housing …
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The underpricing of unseasoned new issues of common stock
… characteristics, and ( 3) analyze the effects of institutional constraints concerning percentage cash spread on the relationship between underpricing and percentage cash spread. The examination of excess returns indicates that efficiency prevails in the new issues market beginning with the second …
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Appellate Recruitment Patterns in the Higher British Judiciary: 1850 - 1990
… that merit effects, professional norms, and institutional constraints offer equally satisfactory or better explanations of appellate recruitment patterns.
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The Giant Stirs?: Failing Forward in EU Defense Integration after the Ukraine Invasion
… of incremental, reactive integration shaped by institutional constraints and member state divergences. Drawing on recent policy documents and expert analyses, the research demonstrates how the EU’s fragmented defense landscape has prompted partial, often insufficient reforms that nonetheless …
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The effects of the federal programs on the U.S. dairy industry
… and consumers’ surplus subject to the various institutional constraints incorporating unregulated and regulated market situations. Under the regulated market situation, the institutional constraints were based on the federal milk marketing order and dairy price support programs. Utilizing the …
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Critical issues of English teaching in the two-year college: An ethnographic journey
… two-year college writing instructors; and the institutional constraints on two-year college English instructors. After presenting some history and commentary on the community college, I discuss the methodology of the research. In the dissertation I profile fourteen of the 24 teachers I …
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High Hill Yak Cheese Production in Nepal: An Analysis of Privatization Policy Incorporating the Impacts of Market Failures for Agro-Industries in Developing Countries
… stem from changes in monopsony behavior and institutional constraints that differ between the public and private sectors. The Dairy Development Corporation (DDC) of Nepal produces yak cheese. The DDC's mandate is to provide a "fair" price to consumers and producers. Private producers of …
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Systemic Corruption: A Multi-Theoretic, Multi-Level and Mixed Methods Analysis of the Interplay among Institutional Logics, Strategic Agency and Reward Expectancy
… to multidisciplinary perspectives encompassing institutional, agency, reward and structuration theories and employed sequential mixed methods approaches to yield a multi-level theory of corruption.At the individual level, a qualitative study of 32 founders/CEOs reveals that (1) business owners …
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Resilience of Entrepreneurs in Conflict Zones: Evidence from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine
… where there is violent conflict and substantial institutional deficiencies, entrepreneurial activity increases as self-employment becomes a necessary survival and coping mechanism and strategy. Women within context affected by long-term conflict are also more likely to engage in entrepreneurship …
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Between informal and formal politics : Neopatrimonialism and party development in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
… elite conflict have influenced and shaped the institutional constraints affecting party development (institutional choice, electoral design and party law), the type of parties emerging (organisation, ideology and membership) and parties' relationship with society.
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Digging deeper for benefits: rural local governance and the livelihood and sustainability outcomes of devils claw (Harpagophytum spp.) harvesting in the Zambezi Region, Namibia
… observation and documentary evidence. An institutional mode of analysis and a political ecology approach were applied. Theoretical perspectives to inform the research were drawn from discourses on governance, institutions, political ecology, power and access. The novelty in using a …
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