Source-sink cooperation dynamics constrain institutional evolution in a group-structured society [PDF]
Societies change through time, entailing changes in behaviors and institutions. We ask how social change occurs when behaviors and institutions are interdependent. We model a group-structured society in which the transmission of individual behavior occurs in parallel with the selection of group-level institutions.
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Calving Out a Space to Exist: “Marked” Identities in Polar Science’s “Unmarked Spaces”
For minority employees at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the organisation has enriched their careers, while offering equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) measures to mitigate some of the issues affecting them.
Anya Lawrence, Luis Escobedo
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Institutional Change and War: Changing Autopoiesis [PDF]
The article examines the problem of theoretical foundations for analyzing the processes of transition of a social system from one type of social institutions to another.
Viktor Shcherbyna
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Dimensions and Cartography of Dirty Money in Developing Countries: Tripping Up on the Global Hydra
This article aims to analyze the challenges posed by the illicit financial flows (IFFs) that emerged from the consolidation and globalization of financial markets and the persistent and rising inequality of wealth and income. In a first step, we show the
Rogelio Madrueño+1 more
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Selected Models of Institutional Change in Theory and Practice
This paper is a continuation of the research on the course of institutional changes, the results of which were presented in the article published in “Ekonomista” in 2017, (Sukiennik, Dokurno, Fiedor 2017).
Jakub Sukiennik+2 more
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A Framework for Understanding AI-Induced Field Change: How AI Technologies are Legitimized and Institutionalized [PDF]
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems operate in increasingly diverse areas, from healthcare to facial recognition, the stock market, autonomous vehicles, and so on. While the underlying digital infrastructure of AI systems is developing rapidly, each area of implementation is subject to different degrees and processes of legitimization.
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Institutional change and Institutional Integration in France: Health Regional Agencies what consequences for the development of integrated services delivery? [PDF]
Hélène Trouvé+2 more
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The agony of nuclear: sustaining democratic disagreement in the anthropocene
Disagreements inevitably arise over the possibilities and policies of sustainability. In contrast to approaches that pursue political consensus this article argues that such disagreement is not a matter of a clash with ignorant or immoral perspectives ...
Amanda Machin
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Robustness Trade-offs in Social-Ecological Systems
The governance of common-pool resources can be meaningfully examined from the somewhat broader perspective of the governance of social-ecological systems (SESs).
Marco A. Janssen, John M Anderies
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Discursive institutionalism and institutional change [PDF]
This paper outlines relevant aspects of institutional theory in social sciences and gives a more detailed overview of the New Institutionalist approaches.
Zurnić Marija
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