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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"institutional stability"”.
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Challenging operations : changing interactions, identities, and institutions in a surgical teaching hospital
… for action and interpretation, then institutional change must depend at some point on thinking the unthinkable, acting in "inappropriate" ways, and convincing powerful others to give up their privilege. How does this happen? How do people come to question taken-for-granted beliefs? …
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Shared Words, Divided Worlds: Moral Language and the Struggle for Meaning at the Claremont Colleges During the Vietnam War, 1965-1969
… into procedural neutrality, prioritizing institutional stability and the regulation of dissent. By foregrounding the interpretive struggles at Claremont, this study reveals that the most consequential divisions were not over values themselves but over the different meanings attached to …
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The Incongruence Of Development Assistance: An overview of World Bank Policies
<p>In post-conflict countries were instability has intensified, it becomes apparent how inadequate development assistance can be and why even after large sum of investments development assistance has not been able to completely alleviate poverty. For agencies like the World Bank that provide first …
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English Sub-Regional Planning: Governance, Institutions and Outcomes in East Anglia
… making use of tools and terms from Third Wave Institutionalism, this research creates a framework to show how the narrative, practices and rules constraints of institutions used for sub-regional planning both shape, and are simultaneously shaped by, the varied strategic ambitions of local …
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Explaining the emergence and gradual transformation of policy regimes: the case of contemporary French prostitution policy (1946-2016)
… significant internal reform. Yet current institutional scholarship remains ill equipped for explaining how a policy framework can simultaneously persist and change. This thesis therefore investigates how and why contemporary French prostitution policy has changed the way it has since the …
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The impact of central bank independence and transparency on the cost of capital, equity home and foreign bias, and debt home and foreign bias
… of monetary policy issues such as price stability and market volatility; however, they are less inclined than the central bank's authority to prioritize monetary policy objectives over their political agenda and commitment to the public. Politicians and central bank personnel have diverse …
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Confronting Founding Injustices: Reconstructive Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Legitimacy in Postcolonial States
… states through three dominant paradigms. Institutionalist theories equate legitimacy with procedural design and endurance, presuming that stable institutions generate compliance and, over time, diffuse support. Transformative constitutionalism locates legitimacy in social justice, …
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Linking Governance and Performance: ICANN as an Internet Hybrid
… governance and performance in its broader institutional context. The study finds that although differing governance processes have led to different performance outcomes (Lynn et al. 2000), "stability" has been the defining value that has shaped the overall path of ICANN's governance and …
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Effect of Resource Curse on Child Well-being in Resource-rich States, Specifically in Post-Soviet States
… effective governance may be overridden by the instability of government leaders and administrators. In short, shifting political regimes do not necessarily create institutional stability. This may be a contribution of the research, and a useful specification of resource curse theory. The …