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Special Care in Dentistry, 1985
Public and professional interest in community‐based care for persons with handicapping conditions seems to have reached equilibrium, and the new problems faced by those who provide institutional dental care should be scrutinized.
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Public and professional interest in community‐based care for persons with handicapping conditions seems to have reached equilibrium, and the new problems faced by those who provide institutional dental care should be scrutinized.
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2019
Institutions (including regulations) are constitutive elements of innovation systems. Some institutions are influenced by public actors, and they are elements of innovation policy. Focusing on (soft and hard) regulation, the chapter identifies the most salient regulatory areas from the perspective of the innovation system. When asking about the effects
Susana Borrás, Charles Edquist
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Institutions (including regulations) are constitutive elements of innovation systems. Some institutions are influenced by public actors, and they are elements of innovation policy. Focusing on (soft and hard) regulation, the chapter identifies the most salient regulatory areas from the perspective of the innovation system. When asking about the effects
Susana Borrás, Charles Edquist
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2016
This chapter traces developments in historical institutionalist approaches to institutional change. Originally, historical (like rational choice and sociological) institutionalism focused on institutions as “independent” variables, favoring a “comparative statics” mode of analysis. Institutions were relatively fixed and unproblematically enforced rules,
Kathleen Thelen, James Conran
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This chapter traces developments in historical institutionalist approaches to institutional change. Originally, historical (like rational choice and sociological) institutionalism focused on institutions as “independent” variables, favoring a “comparative statics” mode of analysis. Institutions were relatively fixed and unproblematically enforced rules,
Kathleen Thelen, James Conran
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Institutions for global environmental change
Global Environmental Change, 1994This new column will become a regular feature in Global Environmental Change. The aim is to track the formation and progress of various institutional arrangements that have emerged following the UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and to assess their significance in the management of global environmental change.
Andrew Jordan, Tim O’Riordan
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Institutional Change, Happiness, and Fertility
European Sociological Review, 2015Building on existing theories of fertility dynamics, this article provides a theoretical perspective that connects two recent strands of the literature. The first concerns gender equity and equality where institutions play a critical role. The second is that subjective well-being matters in explaining childbearing behaviour (and vice versa).
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Economic Institutions and Institutional Change
2021Interest in the institutions that structure economic behavior has a long history in sociology, extending back to the work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Polanyi. With the rise of new economic sociology in the 1980s, scholars have direct renewed attention toward the informal and formal rules and conventions that structure economic life.
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Endogenizing institutions and institutional changes
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2007Abstract:This paper proposes an analytical-cum-conceptual framework for understanding the nature of institutions as well as their changes. First, it proposes a new definition of institution based on the notion of common knowledge regarding self-sustaining features of social interactions with a hope to integrate various disciplinary approaches to ...
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Language
2009By developing Searle’s (1995, 2005) argument that language is the fundamental institution, this chapter contributes to the growing institutionalist literature on the conception of the institution and the understanding of institutional change. Language is ambiguous, however, and so institutional reproduction, mediated by language, is a deeply ...
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