Author: Li Bennich-Bjorkman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: institutional, change, political, socialization, evolution, pressure, culture, transforms
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0230601014
ISBN-13: 9780230601017

Are world views once formed during childhood and adolescence stable over life or do they change when they come under pressure from new institutional contexts? This book seeks the answer by re-visiting an aged political generation growing up in historically unique interwar Estonia but living their adult lives in exile in Canada and Sweden or under foreign occupation in the then-Soviet Estonia. Some major conclusions drawn are that of dominant "cultural themes" being stable over time in all three groups, while cultural correspondence between country of origin and host society plays an essential

Author: Wilfred Dolfsma
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: institutional, economics, horizons, series, new, evolutionary, pop, formation, preferences, advent, music
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1843762331
ISBN-13: 9781843762331

The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional economics with insights from the other social sciences to analyze the way in which preferences are formed in a social context. The author demonstrates how preferences for specific goods, and symbolic goods in particular, are mediated through the institutional settings that both individuals and groups find themselves in. He develops a Social Value Nexus, which indicates how institutions relate to the

Author: Ernst Helmstadter
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: institutional, economics, new, evolutionary, horizons, approach, knowledge, sharing
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2003-12
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1843764237
ISBN-13: 9781843764236

The Economics of Knowledge Sharing claims that useful economic knowledge is the most important foundation for the development of a sufficiently strong process of innovation. Within the framework of new institutional economics, the book looks at the institutional conditions required for the interactive sharing and dissemination of knowledge in the development of economies. It outlines in four distinct parts the complex societal process of human interaction by which knowledge is effectively generated and used. The book first considers knowledge sharing institutions, differentiating between ty

Author: Donald R. Stabile
Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc
Keywords: institutional, economics, studies, barkin, solomon, activist, unionism
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1993-12
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 1563242931
ISBN-13: 9781563242939

Authors:Jon Elster, Claus Offe, Ulrich K. Preuss,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: institutional, design, sea, theories, ship, societies, post, communist, rebuilding
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 1998-03-28
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 0521479312
ISBN-13: 9780521479318

This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy. Studies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia provide detailed empirical data concerning constitution making, the shaping of democratic institutions, marketization of the economy, and social policy. This new research is then linked to innovative theoretical material to offer a unique assessment of the difficulties of creating a new political order in the region.

Author: Oran R. Young
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: institutional, environmental, innovation, strategies, sustainability, accord, scale, dimensions, change, interplay, global
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0262740249
ISBN-13: 9780262740241

Researchers studying the role institutions play in causing and confronting environmental change use a variety of concepts and methods that make it difficult to compare their findings. Seeking to remedy this problem, Oran Young takes the analytic themes identified in the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan as cutting-edge research concerns and develops them into a common structure for conducting research. He illustrates his arguments with examples of environmental change ranging in scale from the depletion of local fish stocks to the disruption of Earth&

Author: Robert E. Goodin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: design, institutional, theories, theory
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-06-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521636434
ISBN-13: 9780521636438

Problems of institutional design and redesign, structuring and restructuring, acquired particular poignancy through recent developments from eastern Europe to southern Africa. At the same time, scholars in each of several disciplines--political science, sociology, history and philosophy--have increasingly come to appreciate the important independent role that is, and should be, played by institutional factors in social life. In this volume, disparate theories of institutional design given by each of those several disciplines are synthesized and their peculiar power illustrated.