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INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MEDIATION [PDF]

open access: possibleFamily Court Review, 2004
Mediation has evolved, grown, and been accepted within our society from preschools to doctoral programs and in courts, legislatures, and private industry. The passage of the Uniform Mediation Act, the birth of the Association of Conflict of Resolution, and the involvement of government bodies in the regulation of mediators indicate the importance of ...
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Institutionalized and the non-institutionalized elderly

Social Science & Medicine, 1982
A survey covering all the elderly over 65 years of age at home and in institutions was made in a rural town of Japan in order to reveal the physical and socio-psychological factors which were related to their current placement status. The proportion of those over 65 in this town is 13%, of which 53% are living either alone or with spouse only, which ...
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The institutionalization of a concept

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2002
AbstractGovernment involvement with psychiatry creates potentially great opportunities, as hitherto neglected problems receive attention and funding. When seriously harmful behaviour is involved, however, such opportunity can be limited or lost. Parallel consideration of legal restraints on those people with serious disorder who commit harm to others ...
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Institutionalization and Professionalization

2016
Health care systems are both highly institutionalized and highly professionalized. We suggest that both characteristics should be considered to understand the underlying power dynamics and how organizational change can occur. Although these characteristics have mostly been considered separately, we identify three ways they are being brought together ...
Elizabeth Goodrick   +2 more
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Institutionalism in law

2018
‘Institutionalism’ is the name for an approach to the theory of law worked out in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a number of scholars from continental Europe, working mainly in independence from each other. Their common characteristics can be stated only in rather generic and negative terms.
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The Institutionalization of Islam in Europe

2014
The chapter is divided into two parts. The first part, authored by Silvio Ferrari, examines the issue of Islam's institutionalization from a theoretical point of view, taking into account the context, the players, and the dynamics. The second part, authored by Rossella Bottoni, is a literature review focusing on the notion and uses of the ...
Jocelyne Cesari   +2 more
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In defense of institutionalism

1976
Robert Lynd’s critical diagnosis of the crippling situation of the social sciences in the thirties was echoed later by Schumpeter’s statement that the social sciences have steadily grown apart ‘until by now the modal economist and the modal sociologist know little and care less about what the other does, each preferring to use, respectively, a ...
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Bounded Rationality and Institutionalism

2007
It is now widely acknowledged that institutions are a crucial factor in economic performance. Major developments have been made in our understanding of the nature and evolution of economic institutions in the last few years. This book brings together some key contributions in this area by leading internationally renowned scholars including Paul A ...
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