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Alternative thinking on governance: a critical analysis of structure and uncertainty in embedding good governance at the local level in Tanzania
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Mgonja, Boniface Eliamini Samwel
One of the most challenging questions that a political comparativist can grapple with in today’s world is: Why do some countries and their systems of governance fail while others succeed? As a student of comparative politics, I have been grappling with a similar question for some time now: What...
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09/24/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Videogames offer tremendous potential for more meaningful interactions with music and sound, but in most cases, the role that sound and music plays is subservient to the story or game world, rather than being a point of exploration in and of itself. What if composers...
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2018-11-15
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2019: The rising costs has made housing in Canada less affordable. The goal of this one-year partnership is to identify what is required to build a resilient and sustainable community housing sector in Canada. Drawing on the knowledge and capacity of the sector itself, we will...
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2012-10-12
SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: This research will contribute to theories of institutional change by identifying the processes by which institutionalized arrangements embracing multiple logics are reconstructed. The empirical context is the public provision of addition services in Alberta, a mature...
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Choosing versus receiving feedback: The impact of feedback valence on learning in an assessment game
Choosing versus receiving feedback: The impact of feedback valence on learning in an assessment game
2016
Studies examining feedback in educational settings have largely focused on feedback that is received, rather than chosen, by students. This study investigates whether adult participants learn more from choosing rather than receiving feedback from virtual characters in a digital poster design...
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Spring 2010
This study examined fairness in the online society of World of Warcraft(WoW), a society under constraint by game developers but dynamically affected by users. Because the society is voluntary, people have the ability to both effect major change on, and leave, that society at any time. Thus,...
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Institutional Diversity in Collective Action: Investigating Successful Village Level Maintenance of Hand Pumps in Malawi
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Providing clean water to rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa remains a challenge. Unsanitary and distant water sources cause a host of health and humanitarian problems. A common means of remedying this situation has been the donation of improved water sources, fitted with low-cost hand pumps....
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Institutions and Economic Growth: How Institutional Change Triggers Divergence, Convergence, and Non-Zero Sums
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The thesis explores the effect of institutional change on economic output. Chapters 1 and 2 are empirical and examine historical events. Chapter 1 makes the case that the Mongol Empire played a prominent role in the Industrial Revolution emerging in Western Europe. Western Europe developed...