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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"political-institutional context"”.
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The Tholian Web: The Political/Institutional Context of Regional Cluster-Based Economic Development
… order to develop a conceptual framework of the political/institutional context of this "new" approach. In order to develop a framework that can be utilized by practitioners, field studies were conducted in Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina; Lynchburg, …
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The Minzu Debate: Policy Subsystem, Knowledge Community, and Academic Discourse in Post-Mao China’s Ethnic Policy-Making
… In this study, I answer this question through a political-sociological investigation of the academic policy debates of the People’s Republic of China about its ethnic minority policy (a.k.a. “minzu policy”) in the Post-Mao period. Building off existing literature, I propose a theory of academic …
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Mega-project politics : the evolution of Lahore's first BRT corridor
… in demand for public transport, as well as the political will shown by strong, committed local individuals. However, a limited number of scholars have pointed out that demand and political will are not sufficient explanatory variables, and have called for incorporating alternative explanations …
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Battle for the Floodplains: An Institutional Analysis of Water Management and Spatial Planning in England
… from the turn of the century have renewed political attention and, it is believed, created new opportunities for the restoration of functional floodplains to alleviate the impact of flooding on urban development. For centuries, rural and urban landowning interests have dominated floodplains …
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The Impact of European Union Asylum Policy on Domestic Asylum Policy in Germany and Britain: 1990-2007
… between these variables. Depending on the political-institutional context, the factors identify above interact with each other, resulting in differential impact of EU asylum policy on domestic policy. The thesis distinguishes between simple and compound polities, and shows how they differ …
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Is small really beautiful? The impact of scale on political institutional capacity for integrated environmental management in Malta
… democracy, with contiguous biophysical and political boundaries fitting into the description of a bioregion, where the small-is-beautiful claim is expected to hold true. However, the country's development of integrated environmental management (IEM) capacity has encountered major challenges. …