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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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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...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation explores theoretical mechanisms underlying organizations’ disengagement from social movements. Building on insights from institutional theory and the social movement literature, I examine the decertification of Certified B Corporations (also known as B Corporations or B Corps)...
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Property Rights and the Historical Development of Texas and Alberta's Oil and Gas Industries: An Institutional Perspective
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Property rights, as a set of institutions, are often identified as a core component of economic development. Yet, their composition can differ substantially between jurisdictions. This research examines how jurisdictions with different forms of property rights can achieve similar degrees of...
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Spring 2019
Reimagining Herstory: A Transnational Study of Women’s WritingsbyMansoureh Modarres A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree ofDoctor of Philosophyin Comparative LiteratureDepartment of Modern Languages and Cultural StudiesUniversity of Alberta ©...
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Responsibility for What, to Whom? A Critical Assessment of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Kinross and Newmont in Ghana
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Once transnational companies take over concessions of land or sea for their business, they are usually expected to provide certain socio-economic mechanisms aimed at cushioning the affected people and communities. This popular expectation or phenomenon is captured as corporate social...