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Institutional Change in Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate governance, lifetime employment, and the amakudari system.
Blomström, Magnus, La Croix, Sumner J.
openaire   +3 more sources

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

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiality of the Commons

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating a Murky Adaptive Comanagement Governance Network: Agua Fria Watershed, Arizona, USA

open access: yesEcology 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of rule choice in dynamic interactive spatial commons

open access: yesInternational 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From В«RevolutionВ» to В«TransformationsВ» and В«ChangesВ»? Development of Discourses of Analysis Qualitative Social Change

open access: yesСоциологическая наука и социальная практика, 2021
The popular condemnation of «revolutionaryism» in post-Soviet Russia is seen as contradicting the global trends in scientific analysis of the role of revolutions in the development of society, according to which it is the revolutionary institutional ...
Yury V. Latov
doaj   +1 more source

Instituting Change

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2006
MIT helps its researchers comply with the NIH policy on submitting published research to PubMed Central.
openaire   +5 more sources

Zimbabwe opposition’s quest for electoral reforms in the post-GNU era: from Unity to action

open access: yesCogent 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
doaj   +1 more source

Analysing institutional change in environmental governance: exploring the concept of ‘institutional work’

open access: yes, 2019
Institutional work focuses on the role of actors in creating, maintaining, or disrupting institutional structures. The concept has its origin in organisational studies.
R. Beunen, James Patterson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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