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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
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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
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Codecision and institutional change [PDF]

open access: yesWest European Politics, 2007
This article examines the sources and processes of institutional change in one important aspect of EU politics – the legislative procedure of codecision – and shows how interstitial change of institutions that emerges between formal Treaty revisions and under specific conditions may be formalised in subsequent formal Treaty reforms.
FARRELL, Henry, HERITIER, Adrienne
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Institutional Changes of SPACs [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
We document the changes of corporate design of modern Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from 2003 to 2012. We assign the impact on changes of SPACs to each of the three groups of stakeholders: founders, investors and underwriters and test whether institutional characteristics of SPACs determine the success of their merger outcomes.
Lakicevic, Milan   +2 more
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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
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Federalizzazione dell’Italia: the transition of Italian political system through the lenses of constructivist institutionalism [PDF]

open access: yesPrzegląd Europejski, 2023
Italy is a state, standing at the crossroads of federalisation. This article traces the ideational and practical application of the federalisation process in Italy, from the lenses of the constructivist institutional theory by Colin Hay and with the ...
Yunis Mir
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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
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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
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Your Resilience is My Vulnerability: ‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflict

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2014
This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders.
Frank Sondershaus, Timothy Moss
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City-to-city learning within climate city networks: definition, significance, and challenges from a global perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2020
Cities are increasingly joining forces through transnational municipal networks. The presented research focuses on one of the key services of these organisations: providing a platform for city-to-city learning. Interviews with representatives of networks
Wolfgang Haupt   +3 more
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