Tag: Institutions

Free Download Deputy Director Elise Stephenson, "The Face of the Nation: Gendered Institutions in International Affairs"
English | ISBN: 0197632726 | ASIN : B0C2ZQB71L | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF, EPUB | 14 + 3 MB

Free Download Deputy Director Elise Stephenson, "The Face of the Nation: Gendered Institutions in International Affairs"
English | ISBN: 0197632726 | ASIN : B0C2ZQB71L | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF, EPUB | 14 + 3 MB

Free Download Paul Blustein, "Off Balance: The Travails of Institutions That Govern the Global Financial System"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0986707767 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.4 mb
Award-winning journalist and author Paul Blustein has received wide acclaim for his books about the inner workings of international economic institutions, notably the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization. In Off Balance, he weaves a compelling narrative that details the failings of such institutions in the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008. Based on interviews with scores of policy makers and on thousands of pages of confidential documents to which Blustein obtained exclusive access, the book focusses mainly on the IMF and the Financial Stability Forum in the run-up to and early months of the crisis. Blustein exposes serious weaknesses in these and other institutions, which lead to sobering conclusions about the governability of the global economy.

Free Download Lived Institutions as History of Experience by Johanna Annola, Hanna Lindberg, Pirjo Markkola
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 359 Pages | ISBN : 3031389557 | 11.4 MB
This book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience shape and structure people’s everyday lives? Histories of institutions have mainly focused on the structures and power relations produced by institutional settings. Likewise, despite an extensive historiography of the welfare state, reflections on individuals’ experiences of welfare are few. By using ‘lived institutions’ as its conceptual frame, this edited collection merges the fields of institutional studies, the history of the welfare state – and the novel and vibrant field of the history of experience.

Free Download G. John Ikenberry, "After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars"
English | 2000 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0691050902, 0691169217, 0691192847 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power and how do they use it to build order? In examining the postwar settlements in modern history, he argues that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power.

Free Download Western Constitutionalism: History, Institutions, Comparative Law, Third Edition by Andrea Buratti
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 331 Pages | ISBN : 3031408713 | 6.7 MB
This book explores the theoretical origins, historical foundation, political meaning, and legal development of western constitutionalism, as well as the structure and transformation of constitutional law in the Western World.

Free Download The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David by Marcel Herbst
English | PDF (True) | 2014 | 226 Pages | ISBN : 9400774060 | 2.5 MB
The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume. The book focuses on three major lines of Ben-David’s research, namely "Center and Periphery" (Part I), "Role and Ethos" (Part II), and "Organization and Growth" (Part III). In addition, comprehensive introductory ("Prologue") and concluding chapters ("Epilogue", Part IV) by Marcel Herbst are provided. The volume addresses the following disciplines: higher education, history and sociology of science, philosophy of science, history of medicine, public administration, policy studies, Jewish studies, and economics. The anthology is one of two new publications on Joseph Ben-David after the special Minerva edition Vol. 25, Numbers 1-2, March 1987, and Gad Freudenthal’s collection of Ben-David’s writings [1991]. The text can be used in graduate studies, it addresses higher education professionals or public officials, and serves as a gateway to researchers in the field of higher education, science studies, or policy sciences.

Free Download Alexandru V. Grigorescu, "Restraining Power through Institutions: A Unifying Theme for Domestic and International Politics"
English | ISBN: 0192863681 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book challenges the traditional view that meaningful analogies cannot be drawn between domestic and international politics. Alexandru V. Grigorescu shows that there are important parallels to be drawn across these two realms, if political interactions among states over the past two centuries are compared to those within states going back about a thousand years. He focuses specifically on the evolution of institutions that restrain concentrated power, such as courts, assemblies, and bureaucracies.

Free Download Alexandru V. Grigorescu, "Restraining Power through Institutions: A Unifying Theme for Domestic and International Politics"
English | ISBN: 0192863681 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book challenges the traditional view that meaningful analogies cannot be drawn between domestic and international politics. Alexandru V. Grigorescu shows that there are important parallels to be drawn across these two realms, if political interactions among states over the past two centuries are compared to those within states going back about a thousand years. He focuses specifically on the evolution of institutions that restrain concentrated power, such as courts, assemblies, and bureaucracies.

Free Download Derrida’s Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction by Ryan A. Gustafson
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 198 Pages | ISBN : 3031414934 | 4.1 MB
Derrida’s Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction presents the first dedicated study of Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of institutions. While previous studies of Derrida’s thought have considered his engagement with individual institutions-from the university to literature, law, and psychoanalysis, among others-Derrida’s Social Ontology offers the first attempt to reconstruct and defend the philosophical theory of institutions that underlies these engagements. In so doing, the book argues that the theme of "the institution" in Derrida’s oeuvre offers the best throughline for understanding the substantively normative significance of deconstruction as a philosophical practice, arguing that Derrida is unique among so-called "postmodern" thinkers in providing an account of the relationship between the historically contingent character of institutions and the normative entitlements that such entities make possible. Specifically, the book shows how Derrida accounts for this relationship in a way that leaves room for a notion of "unconditional responsibility" for the social and political world to the extent that the latter is structured by perfectible institutions. In tracing the development of Derrida’s account of this link between the historicity and normativity of institutional life-from his early writings on the historicity of the institution of philosophy, to his later critiques of practices of institutional cruelty like the death penalty-Derrida’s Social Ontology not only offers readers a new framework for making sense of the normative commitments that defined this philosopher’s writings, but will also establish the terms for putting his works into conversation with contemporary debates in social and political philosophy and critical theory more broadly.