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Source-sink cooperation dynamics constrain institutional evolution in a group-structured society [PDF]

open access: yesR. Soc. Open Sci. 9: 211743 (2022), 2021
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.
arxiv   +1 more source

Calving Out a Space to Exist: “Marked” Identities in Polar Science’s “Unmarked Spaces”

open access: yesEarth Science, Systems and Society, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional Change and War: Changing Autopoiesis [PDF]

open access: yesUkrainian Policymaker, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Dimensions and Cartography of Dirty Money in Developing Countries: Tripping Up on the Global Hydra

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Selected Models of Institutional Change in Theory and Practice

open access: yesEkonomista, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

A Framework for Understanding AI-Induced Field Change: How AI Technologies are Legitimized and Institutionalized [PDF]

open access: yesIn Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society, 2021
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.
arxiv   +1 more source

The agony of nuclear: sustaining democratic disagreement in the anthropocene

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Robustness Trade-offs in Social-Ecological Systems

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2007
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
doaj   +1 more source

Discursive institutionalism and institutional change [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2014
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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