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Institutions and the Second Amendment [PDF]

, 2016
District of Columbia v. Heller ruptured the one institution—the militia—that courts had used for centuries to implement the right to keep and bear arms.
Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
wiley   +1 more source

How institutional design and leadership sustain collaborative public sector innovation: the case of administrative simplification in Italy

Policy Design and Practice
Institutional design and leadership are expected to spur collaborative public sector innovation by creating a framework for empowered participation and facilitating alignment, learning, and joint decision‑making.
Fabrizio Di Mascio, Paola Coletti, Alessandro Natalini   +2 more
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European Union Intervention in the Iranian Crisis – A Sociological Institutionalist Perspective [PDF]

Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2014
The European Union began to be involved in solving the Iranian crisis starting with 2003. While in the past the EU used to react to this type of problems by issuing declarative documents or by silence due to the internal divisions, this time the EU ...
Nicoleta Laşan
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Moving Beyond New Public Management: How Business Type‐Management Is Embedded in the Swedish State Through Institutional Hooks

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, criticism facing Business‐Type Management within the state has led governments to call for new management models. In many cases, this ambition has not been accompanied by concrete actions signaling a clear break with BTM. There has been limited capacity for critical reflection, learning, and innovative thinking.
Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg, Göran Sundström   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL LEGITIMATION OF THE CREED AND POPULAR SPONTANEITY OF RELIGIOUS LIFE: ON THE CENTRAL RELIGIOUS CHALLENGE TO THE 21ST CENTURY – A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH

Prometeus: Filosofia em Revista, 2018
This article argues that the great normative challenge for institutionalized religions in the 21st century is the weakening of strong institutionalism and strong objectivity regarding the constitution, the legitimation and the social boosting of the ...
Leno Francisco Danner, Agemir Bavaresco, Fernando Danner   +2 more
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Preserving American Democracy by Saving Agricultural Markets: Another Understanding of the New Deal

Œconomia
This article focuses on the emergence of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) in 1933 in the United States. We argue that behind the objective of saving agricultural markets from the Great Depression collapse, the Roosevelt Administration pursued ...
Marine Raffray
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China’s OBOR as a Geo-Functional Institutionalist Project

Baltic Journal of European studies, 2017
This study analyses the feasibility of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative from an institutionalist perspective. The initiative is undertaken as a ‘geo-functional institutionalist’ project, and this strengthens its feasibility.
Kaplan Yilmaz
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Leading the Charge: The Role of Women in Municipal Budgeting

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender inclusion and diversity have become increasingly important in local governance as a tool to improve equitable public decision‐making. Despite these efforts, the representation of women in leadership roles, particularly those heading initiatives such as social equity budgeting (SEB), varies greatly by municipality.
Saman Afshan
wiley   +1 more source

Liberalism and Grand Theories of International Relations

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2004
Neoliberal institutionalism, developed by Robert Keohane, and liberal theory of international relations elaborated by Andrew Moravcsik, nowadays represent two grand International Relations (IR) theories drawing on liberalism as one of the main ...
Jan Karlas
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