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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"institutional evolution"”.
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Change in China's Banking Sector as an Institutional Evolution
… banking system can best be understood as an evolution of institutions which reflect historical patterns of political and economic organisation in China. This finding is in contrast with the main body of academic literature which evaluates the development of China’s banking system according to …
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Essays on institutional evolution and economic development: evidence from Nigeria
… The specific issues focused on include: the evolution of institutions; persistence of institutions; interdependence between political and economic institutions; interdependence between institutions and economic development; and the role of institutions in determining resource wealth effects. …
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Two petro-states diverge: explaining the institutional evolution of Nigeria and Angola
It is well-established that oil wealth in weakly institutionalised states tends to undermine development instead of catalysing it. Cross-country regressions, however, struggle to explain why comparably oil-wealthy countries such as Nigeria and Angola experience different political and economic …
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Enlargement Goes Western Balkans-Croatian Institutions in Time [:] Sluggish Institutional Evolution, Resilience, and Shallow Europeanisation
The overarching focus of this thesis is the institutional (and policy) consequences of European integration for the Republic of Croatia. So far, most research on ‘candidate Europeanisation’ has focused on the impact of EU conditionality on the domestic polity, politics, and policy domains of the …
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Application of Austrian Economic Theory and Complexity Theory to the Institutional Evolution of Agricultural Markets
However, in spite of the theoretical and methodological contributions of this research, there are a number of limitations. One such limitation stems from the computational and memory constraints imposed by the Mathematica programming software. In addition, model validation and verification …
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The efficiency properties of institutional evolution: with particular reference to the social-philosophical works of F. A. Hayek
… purpose of this study is to examine closely the evolutionary process with respect to institutional evolution. The position which holds that the evolutionary process generates efficient institutional forms is seen to be dependent upon a certain set of conditions being met. In the more general …
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Third party involvement process to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
… ideas in the 1980s and 1990s and the institutional evolution of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) from a conference to a regional organization, especially in the area of hard options such as peacekeeping forces deployment or military tasks, (3) the legal …
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The emergence, growth, and redirection of social security: an interpretive history from a public choice perspective
… date, there has been no attempt to explain the evolution of this program within an integrated framework of non-market institutional change which incorporates both the recent literature on the economics of bureaucracy with the more traditional literature on the demand for public sector activity. …
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The Origin, Present, and Future of Regional Art Museums — Using the Woodmere Art Museum as a Case Study
… as a case study to examine the origins and institutional evolution of American regional art museums, identify some of the challenges they currently face, and the important civic and cultural roles they play in their communities. The chapter “Origins” provides a basic overview of Woodmere’s …
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Social resilience of post-earthquake Bam
… of Bam and examines the role played by the evolution of institutions in the post-earthquake reconstruction period in shaping resilience. Through studying the reconstruction process of Bam for six years (from 2004 to 2010) the research explains the dynamics of institutional interactions of …
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The End of Capitalism, Again? An institutional-evolutionary view
… system. Against that approach, I argue that institutional regulation plays a central role in managing capitalist development, and thus adequate analysis must include contradictions and institutional regulation. In this thesis I use institutional-evolutionary theory to critically assess the …
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THE NEW POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
… both in content and process. They range from the institutional evolution of EU’s policy-making to the expansion of its trade agenda to new issues, through the engagement of non-traditional social actors. All set against the background of a changing international trade environment. These …
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Exceptionally un-American? why co-operative enterprises struggle in the United States, but scale elsewhere
… data to answer these questions, synthesizing institutionalism and strategic action fields as a theoretical frame. Large-scale cooperatives are confirmed as less common in the US than other high-income democracies. Accounting for known socioeconomic factors (industry mix, country …
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Patents over planning : industrial capital and federal innovation policy
… support. Analysts have emphasized one dominant institutional feature of this system: federal R&D programs lack a central planning mechanism, and are instead highly fragmented and ad hoc. While some analysts have interpreted this institutional structure as a strength, others view the absence of …
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Alternative methodological approaches to natural resource policy analysis: an illustration of an institutional approach to land use policy analysis
… increasingly called upon to participate in the institutional design of natural resource policies, predict interpret impacts of alternative the direction of future policy policies, and formulations. However, many of the forces influential in the current reformulation of these policies extend …
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Lokal forskningspolitik : Institutionell dynamik och organisatorisk omvandling vid Lunds universitet 1980-2005
… around the world have come under severe institutional pressure from changing national research policies, financing organizations´ new strategies and turbulent research dynamics. This study examines how Lund University in Sweden manages these institutional pressures. The study explores how …
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Catalytic Diplomacy: International Institutional Complexity and the Acceleration of Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
… to harness cooperation within their broader institutional landscape. This thesis studies the dynamics of institutional evolution by investigating how the architecture of existing arrangements has shaped the negotiations of small group institutions in the Asia-Pacific and how these agreements, …
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Catalytic Diplomacy: International Institutional Complexity and the Acceleration of Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
… to harness cooperation within their broader institutional landscape. This thesis studies the dynamics of institutional evolution by investigating how the architecture of existing arrangements has shaped the negotiations of small group institutions in the Asia-Pacific and how these agreements, …
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Wasteways : regimes and resistance on the path to sustainable urban infrastructure
… high diversion rate is a signal of deeper institutional changes to its waste system that position the city in opposition to dominant regimes of waste generation and management in the U.S. To compare the two cities, I use a combination of grounded theory and process tracing techniques to …