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Preferences, power, and the determination of working hours [PDF]

, 2005
Preferences, power, and the determination of working ...
Harvie, D, Philp, B, Slater, G
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The Dangers with Dogmas in Higher Education: Revisiting Dewey's Relationship between Purpose, Academic Freedom, Science, and Faith

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the market-institutions dichotomy: The institutionalism of Douglass C. North in response to Karl Polanyi's challenge [PDF]

On the basis of the "challenge" North [1997 (1977)] identified in the works of Polanyi, we propose to outline the originality of North's institutionalism, especially in comparison with "new institutionalism" in economics as well as in sociology. Far from
Caroline Vincensini, Claude Didry
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The politics of health sector reform in Eastern Europe: the actor-centered institutionalist framework for analysis [PDF]

, 2002
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Ovseiko, Pavel
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From dilemmas to paradoxes: A complex systems view of sustainability management in UK universities

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, universities have transformed from passive contributors to active participants in the global sustainability movement. However, the absence of robust theoretical frameworks and larger‐scale samples has limited the progress that universities can make towards becoming sustainable.
Antonia Voigt, Andrew MacLaren
wiley   +1 more source

Contentious Institutions: An Augmented Rational-Actor Analysis of the Origins and Path Dependency of Welfare State Institutions in the Western Countries [PDF]

Welfare states in the Western countries have had very similar goals, yet the choice of institutions to approach these shared goals has generated protracted power struggles among major interest groups and great cross-country variation in institutional ...
Korpi, Walter
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Economics, Biology, and Culture: Hodgson on History [PDF]

, 2003
This book addresses what the author claims, with considerable justification, to be the foremost challenge confronting the social and behavioral sciences today: the problem of historical specificity.
Field, Alexander J.
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The Dynamics of Intra-jurisdictional Relations in the Inuit Regions of the Canadian Arctic: An Institutionalist Perspective [PDF]

, 2013
One of the most exciting developments in Canadian federalism has been the emergence of Aboriginal self-governing regions. This paper constructs a theoretical framework for exploring the evolution of intra-jurisdictional relations in the self-governing ...
Alcantara, Christopher, Wilson, Gary N.
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The distinctive incorporation of sociological neoinstitutionalism into Japanese sociology and its theoretical insights for the discipline

Japanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 206-223, March 2025.
Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive institutionalism: towards a framework for analysing the relation between policy and curriculum

, 2018
Discourse approaches in education policy analysis have gained prominence in the last decade. However, though the literature on policy discourses is growing, different conceptions of the ‘discursive’ dimension and its potential for empirical analysis ...
N. Wahlström, Daniel Sundberg
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