Essays about: "Historical institutionalism"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 61 essays containing the words Historical institutionalism.

1. 31. A Post-Mortem Analysis of China’s Township Elections

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Patrik Andersson; [2016]
   Keywords : China; Township elections; Rational Choice Institutionalism; Principal-Agent model; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Since the late 1990s county party committees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have experimented with semi-competitive township elections. The central government in Beijing encouraged such initiatives, hoping to use township elections to restrict the power of the county party secretary in appointing township leaders. READ MORE

3. 32. Integration in the Time of Crisis: A historic case study on European economic integration 2010-2012

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Jack Westlin; [2016]
   Keywords : Liberal Intergovernmentalism; Historical Institutionalism; Principal-agent theory; European integration; ECB; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is a historical case study on the European integration between 2010-2012. The aim of the study is twofold. First it has a descriptive approach, focusing on the nature and extent of the integration. The second part is theory testing. READ MORE

4. 33. A 'welfarist' political economy of skills? : A study of Sweden's vocational education and training system, as an arena för welfare policies, 1946-1991

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Ekonomisk historia

   Author : Alexander Lindqvist; [2016]
   Keywords : Economic History; Vocational Education and Training; Sweden; Varieties of Capitalism; Power Resources Theory;

   Abstract : This study takes its starting point in the problematic relationship between skills and welfare policies. It poses Sweden’s vocational education and training (VET) as a case which has seen the kind of tripartite efforts that might help us better understand the dynamics underlying a highly developed mixture of social citizenship and efficiency. READ MORE

5. 34. Europeanization of regional policy in Bulgaria – the establishment of a regional level of governance

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planering

   Author : Ana Dimitrova; [2015]
   Keywords : Europeanization; regional policy; levels of governance;

   Abstract : The study has intended to analyze the Europeanization of the institutional structure for regional policy in Bulgaria after the first programming period of the country as a full-fledged member state of the EU. Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007 as part of the so called ‘Eastern Enlargement’ that was characterized by power asymmetry and strong conditionality. READ MORE

6. 35. The interplay between institutions : A feminist institutional perspective on the parental leave policy in Chile

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Marcia Munoz; [2015]
   Keywords : historical institutionalism; parental leave; Chile; gender; work-family balance;

   Abstract : This paper aims to explain how the interplay between formal and informal institutions affects the potentially gendered outcomes of political reforms. The case of the Chilean parental leave reform of 2011 is used as an example of a political reform addressing gender equality. READ MORE