The Quality of Recent Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Meetings: Location, Session Quality and Institutional Change

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 140-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico A. Marcelli ◽  
Charles F. Hohm ◽  
Jane Kil ◽  
Genesis Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Pacific Sociological Association ◽  
Session Quality

Institutional Outsourcing

2013 ◽  
pp. 40-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Polishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Conflict Of Interests ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Process Outcomes ◽  
Effective Representation

Since the inception of market reforms until the present day Russian institutions have been shaped primarily by economic and political elites, with minimal involvement of the rest of the society in this process. Outcomes of such “institutional outsourcing” for the society depend on the affinity between elites’ preferences and societal needs. Low quality of Russian institutions is explained in the paper by a substantial conflict of interests between the society and unaccountable elites. Prospects of Russian modernization are thus contingent on the accumulation of civic culture and more effective representation of the society in the process of institutional change.

scholarly journals Quality of Higher Education in the Context of Institutional Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A. Pokusaenko ◽  
◽  
Vyacheslav V. Volchik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education

Mass Media and Instituional Change: Organizational Reputation, Strategy, and Outcomes in the Academic Freedom Movement

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deana Rohlinger ◽  
Jordan Brown
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Quality Of Coverage

We conceptualize mass media as a field of action and consider how a social movement organization's reputation affects its media strategy as well as the quality of coverage it receives. Drawing on an analysis of two organizations mobilizing around academic freedom, Students for Academic Freedom (SAF) and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we find that an organization's reputation is consequential. FIRE, which has a strong reputation, gets high-quality coverage and primarily uses this media attention to threaten its targets. SAF has a weak reputation and, consequently, uses alternative and organizational media to create opportunities to spread its ideas to a broader public. It does so by exploiting the linkages among media outlets and moving its ideas from smaller to larger news outlets. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of this research for understanding the role of mass media in strategy, outcomes, and institutional change.

Institutional change and the quality of palm oil: an analysis of the artisanal processing sector in Ghana

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charity Osei-Amponsah ◽  
Tjeerd-Jan Stomph ◽  
Leontine Visser ◽  
Owuraku Sakyi-Dawson ◽  
Samuel Adjei-Nsiah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Palm Oil

scholarly journals Post-communist Transition as a Path Break: Comparing Legal Institutional Effects on Economic Growth between Path-breaking and Path-drifting Institutional Reforms

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larysa Tamilina ◽  
Natalya Tamilina
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Institutional Effects

This article explains the peculiarities of institutional effects on growth rates in postcommunist countries. By proposing a certain dependence of the institution–growth nexus on the mode of institutional grafting, the distinction between drift-phase and path-breaking institutional change is introduced. Theoretical juxtapositions show that transition countries’ institutions built through path-breaking institutional reforms differ from those that emerge evolutionarily in the drift phase in a twofold manner in their relationship to growth. Growth rates of their economies are less likely to depend on the quality of legal institutions and are more likely to be a function of the maturity of political institutions. In addition, legal institutional change in the post-communist world is a product of the quality of the political environment to a greater extent than their drift-phase alternatives. These propositions are tested empirically based on a sample of 87 countries derived from the POLITY IV Project’s website. JEL Classification: O17, O43, O57, P26, P37

Getting to Sweden II

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Bo Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
National Trauma ◽  
The Social ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
Systemic Corruption ◽  
Political Scene

Issues about corruption and other forms of bad government have become central in the social sciences. An unresolved question is how countries can solve the issue of transformation from systemic corruption to the quality of government. Based on Elinor Ostrom’s theory of common pool resource appropriation, a new theoretical model for explaining this type of institutional change is developed. Sweden during the nineteenth century is used as an illustration by showing how the country made a transition from being largely patrimonial, nepotistic, and corrupt to a modern, Weberian, efficient, and impartial state structure. In addition to the “national trauma” of losing a major war, this chapter stresses the importance of three additional factors in Sweden: previous changes in courts and the legal system; recognition of the problem by the main contemporary political actors; and the new liberal ideology that made an important impact on the Swedish political scene.

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