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What Are We Witnessing? Student Protests and the Politics of the Unknowable

Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2019
South African public higher education has been dogged by student protests since 2015. Many of these disruptions raise pertinent issues for the sector, as well as bring about valued awareness and change.
Dionne van Reenen
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Spatiality of the Commons

International Journal of the Commons, 2014
This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and ...
Timothy Moss
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Navigating a Murky Adaptive Comanagement Governance Network: Agua Fria Watershed, Arizona, USA

Ecology and Society, 2013
Adaptive comanagement endeavors to increase knowledge and responsiveness in the face of uncertainty and complexity. However, when collaboration between agency and nonagency stakeholders is mandated, rigid institutions may hinder participation and ...
Cameron Childs, Abigail M. York, Dave White, Michael L. Schoon, Gitanjali S. Bodner   +4 more
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Contracts or scripts? A critical review of the application of institutional theories to the study of environmental change [PDF]

, 2006
The impact of new institutionalism on the study of human environment interactions has been meaningful. Institutional perspectives have further shaped and modified the field problems of common pool resources, environmental hazards, and risk and ...
Bond, Alan, Cobb, Richard, Hotimsky, Samy   +2 more
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Effect of rule choice in dynamic interactive spatial commons

International Journal of the Commons, 2008
This paper uses laboratory experiments to examine the effect of an endogenous rule change from open access to private property as a potential solution to overharvesting in commons dilemmas.
Marco A. Janssen, Robert L. Goldstone, Filippo Menczer, Elinor Ostrom   +3 more
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Neo-Statecraft Theory, Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Change [PDF]

, 2016
This article provides a critical examination of the contribution that statecraft theory, which has been subject to recent revision and development, makes to the literature on institutional change.
Adcock, Blais, Buller, Bulpitt, Bulpitt, Bulpitt, Bulpitt, Bulpitt, Bulpitt, Castells, Cowling, Hall, Hirst, Krasner, Lewis, Mahoney, Ohmae, Parsons, Peters, Rhodes, Rhodes, Sanders, Sayer, Streeck, Toby S. James, Weiss   +25 more
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Thorstein Veblen’s political economy and its implications for the original institutionalism agenda [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
This article seeks to discuss the nature of Thorstein Veblen’s institutionalist thought, establishing three analytical fronts stemming from this thought.
OCTAVIO A. C. CONCEIÇÃO
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Instituting Change

PLoS Biology, 2006
MIT helps its researchers comply with the NIH policy on submitting published research to PubMed Central.
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Institutional change [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1997
Though the principle may seem simple or fundamental it has been our experience that the best way to develop clinician-educators in an academic setting is to value their contributions. This means that those contributions must lead to promotion, they should be valued by colleagues, they must be valued by the administration and the chairman, and they must
H J, Humphrey, L B, Sorensen, B A, Buehler   +2 more
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Zimbabwe opposition’s quest for electoral reforms in the post-GNU era: from Unity to action

Cogent Social Sciences
The demand and clamour for electoral reforms in Africa are among one of the most pressing issues of today. Existing research has documented how citizens of several African countries have flooded the streets in anti-regime protests demanding electoral ...
Gift Mwonzora
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