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, 2016 In an ever-changing world, each and every entity must continue to develop and adapt to its external environment and the demands placed upon it. The PRGA Program is no exception.
CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation
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When who and how matter: explaining the success of referendums in Europe [PDF]
, 2017 This article aims to identify the institutional factors that make a referendum successful. This comparative analysis seeks to explain the success of top-down referendums organized in Europe between 2001 and 2013.
Gherghina, Sergiu, Silagadze, Nanuli
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Suggested actions for CGIAR leaders [PDF]
, 2016 This Brief provides practical, concrete action options for CGIAR management to address the key issues raised at the Rethinking Impact Workshop (RIW): Understanding the complexity of poverty and ...
CGIAR Institutional Learning and Change Initiative +2 more
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Conversation analysis, institutions, and rituals
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 By relating conversation analysis (CA), in particular CA research on institutional interaction to such research traditions as sociological institutionalism, new materialism, and ritual theory, the article illustrates how CA scholarship can contribute to macrosociological theorizing. This argument is illustrated by how national parliaments are organized
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Вопросы образованияThe authors question the theory-based model of funding distribution in universities, whereby income from scientific activities directly determines scientists' remuneration.
Anastasia E. Sudakova +2 more
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Understanding Institutions: A Multi-Dimensional Approach [PDF]
, 2018 With the rise of nativist policies throughout the world, the growing dangers posed by climate change and rising income inequality, and ever-increasing threats to the rule of law, many turn to the institutions of democracy to achieve desired policy goals.
Brescia, Raymond H.
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A Polycentric Approach for Addressing Wicked Social Problems
Administrative SciencesMost social problems are “wicked”, meaning that they are highly complex, intractable, open-ended, and multi-dimensional. In wicked learning environments, information is ambiguous, feedback may be slow, or causes and effects are difficult to ascertain ...
Jordan K. Lofthouse, Leah Kral
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International Journal of the Commons, 2016 Large-N comparative studies have helped common pool resource scholars gain general insights into the factors that influence collective action and governance outcomes.
Allain J Barnett +11 more
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Human Nature and Institutional Analysis [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 This essay reviews some findings in cognition sciences and examines their consequences for the analysis of institutions. It starts by exploring how humans specialization in producing knowledge ensures our success in dominating the environment but also changes fast our environment.
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The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights [PDF]
, 2015 Institutional repositories (IRs) established at universities and academic libraries over a decade ago, large and small, have encountered challenges along the way in keeping faith with their original objective: to collect, preserve, and disseminate the ...
Wu, Mary J
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