Tag: Institutions

Free Download Kidane Mengisteab, "Traditional Institutions in Contemporary African Governance"
English | ISBN: 1138714895 | 2017 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 3 MB
Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent systems. Most African countries are also characterized by parallel institutions of governance – one is the state sanctioned (formal) system and the other is the traditional system, which is adhered to, primarily but not exclusively, by the segments of the population in the subsistence peasant and pastoral economic systems.

Free Download Sarah Maddison, "The Women’s Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138186244, 0415830907 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.9 mb
The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West. Yet at the same time feminism has never had such an extensive presence, whether in international norms and institutions, or online in blogs and social networking campaigns. This book argues that the women’s movement is not over; but rather social movement theory has led us to look in the wrong places.

Free Download Victor Menaldo, "The Institutions Curse: Natural Resources, Politics, and Development "
English | ISBN: 1316503364 | 2016 | 412 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The ‘resource curse’ is the view that countries with extensive natural resources tend to suffer from a host of undesirable outcomes, including the weakening of state capacity, authoritarianism, fewer public goods, war, and economic stagnation. This book debunks this view, arguing that there is an ‘institutions curse’ rather than a resource curse. Legacies endemic to the developing world have impelled many countries to develop natural resources as a default sector in lieu of cultivating modern and diversified economies, and bad institutions have also condemned nations to suffer from ills unduly attributed to minerals and oil. Victor Menaldo also argues that natural resources can actually play an integral role in stimulating state capacity, capitalism, industrialization, and democracy, even if resources are themselves often a symptom of underdevelopment. Despite being cursed by their institutions, weak states are blessed by their resources: greater oil means more development, both historically and across countries today.

Free Download Wendy Carlin, "Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and Inequality"
English | ISBN: 0198838662 | 2024 | 1024 pages | PDF | 95 MB
At the cutting edge of the subject area, the authors bring the macroeconomics that researchers and policymakers use today into focus. By developing a coherent set of tractable models, the book enables students to explore and make sense of the pressing questions facing global economies.

Free Download Steven Noll, "Feeble-Minded in Our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0807845310 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 3.7 mb
The problem of how to treat the mentally handicapped attracted much attention from American reformers in the first half of the twentieth century. In this book, Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the ‘feeble-minded’ in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and relates policies in the South to those in the North and Midwest, regions that had established similar institutions much earlier. At the center of the story is the debate between the humanitarians, who advocated institutionalization as a way of protecting and ministering to the mentally deficient, and public policy adherents, who were primarily interested in controlling and isolating perceived deviants. According to Noll, these conflicting ideologies meant that most southern institutions were founded without a clear mission or an understanding of their relationship to southern society at large. Noll creates a vivid portrait of life and work within institutions throughout the South and the impact of institutionalization on patients and their families. He also examines the composition of the population labeled feeble-minded and demonstrates a relationship between demographic variables and institutional placement, including their effect on the determination of a patient’s degree of disability.

Free Download Michaela Collord, "Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda "
English | ISBN: 0192855182 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Through an analysis of the recent political history of Tanzania and Uganda, Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions offers a novel explanation of why authoritarian parties and legislatures vary in strength, and why this variation matters. Michaela Collord elaborates a view of authoritarian political institutions as both reflecting and magnifying elite power dynamics. While there are many sources of elite power, the book centres on material power. It outlines how diverse trajectories of state-led capitalist development engender differing patterns of wealth accumulation and elite contestation across regimes. These differences, in turn, influence institutional landscapes.

Free Download Alkuin Schachenmayr, "The Corruption of Theological Institutions by Plagiarism in Dissertations "
English | ISBN: 9004529055 | 2022 | 332 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Getting a doctorate in Europe is supremely attractive for young Catholic priests from the Global South. They attain prestige, career advancement, and – in many cases – the opportunity to move permanently from impoverished countries to some of the world’s wealthiest. But do they submit rigorous, original doctoral research in keeping with universal academic standards? This study examines theological dissertations by international students accepted by major Austrian universities and shows that academic incompetence, plagiarism, and negligent supervision are seriously damaging theological institutions – in Europe and abroad. By looking the other way, advisors and administrators do their students and the church a disservice.

Free Download Jeffrey D. Sachs, "The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions"
English | ISBN: 0231193742 | 2020 | 280 pages | AZW3 | 11 MB
Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.

Free Download David Scott Palmer, "Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace: Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995-1998"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0292735693, 0292754299 | PDF | pages: 201 | 21.0 mb
In January 1995, fighting broke out between Ecuadorian and Peruvian military forces in a remote section of the Amazon. It took more than three years and the interplay of multiple actors and factors to achieve a definitive peace agreement, thus ending what had been the region’s oldest unresolved border dispute. This conflict and its resolution provide insights about other unresolved and/or disputed land and sea boundaries which involve almost every country in the Western Hemisphere.

Free Download Antje Wiener, "European Citizenship Practice: Building Institutions Of A Non-state"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 081333358X, 0813336899 | EPUB | pages: 360 | 1.1 mb
Although great efforts have been made to understand citizenship, it has remained a contested concept, largely because of the problem of the changing relationship between citizens and their community of membership or belonging. The European Union poses the most recent and dramatic change to this definition of citizenship. Arguing that citizenship must be explored from a perspective that takes this continual change into account, Antje Wiener develops the concept of citizenship practice-the process of policymaking and/or political participation which contributes to creating the terms of citizenship. The approach draws on both comparative social-historical literature on the state and the new historical institutionalism in European integration theories. "European" Citizenship Practice advances a discursive analysis of citizenship practice based on these related bodies of literature, which lie at the heart of this important contribution to citizenship studies.