Evidence for Excellence in Teaching: The Role of Institutional Research

2016 ◽  
pp. 213-230
Author(s):  
Magda Fourie-Malherbe
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Research ◽  
Excellence In Teaching

scholarly journals Personalization of Politics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Garzia ◽  
Frederico Ferreira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Personalization Of Politics

Over the last decades, the “personalization of politics” has turned into one of the defining elements of the democratic process. The common wisdom that sees popular political leaders as a fundamental electoral asset for their own parties has found increasing support in the existing comparative literature. Equally crucial aspects, such as the relationship between personalization and the old media, have been repeatedly addressed by communication research. A growing body of evidence from the fields of personality psychology and leadership studies has further refined our understanding of the role of individuals—politicians and voters alike—in driving this trend across time. Finally, institutional research dealing with parties, electoral systems, and cabinets has specified the structural transformations that fostered the personalization of politics in Western democracies and beyond. This article summarizes the growing body of available knowledge on the topic focusing, in turn, on General Overviews on personalization and politics; Electoral Research: Leader Effects on Voter Behavior and voting behavior; Personality Psychology and leadership studies; Party Politics; Political Communication; and Institutions: Primaries, Electoral Systems, and Executives and electoral systems.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Role of Institutions in Transformative Contexts: Institutional Change and Conflicts

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Zikos
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Key Concepts

The study of conflicts over natural resources is neither governed by a coherent set of theories nor limited by strict disciplinary boundaries. Rather, it encompasses a multitude of conceptions grounded within a wide array of disciplines and epistemological assumptions concerning the links between institutional change and conflicts, often concluding in contradictory propositions. This article aims at providing conceptual guidance for the special issue, by reviewing institutional research with a particular focus on institutional change and associated conflicts and drawing some implications from transformative settings. More specifically, the paper explores certain propositions and concepts utilised by institutional economists to explain why conflicts persist despite institutional reforms explicitly or implicitly introduced to resolve them. The author revisits diverse cases from different regions to investigate key concepts related to institutional change and its implications on environmental conflicts associated to transformations, complementing this view from a political science perspective. The paper concludes by offering an overview of factors identified as instrumental in understanding the institutional change and conflict–cooperation continuum.

scholarly journals The Strategic Role of Office of Institutional Research in University Organizational Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Jafar Toroghi ◽  
Mahbubeh Arefi ◽  
Hadi Marjaee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
University Management ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
University Performance ◽  
Decision Making Units

University organizational development is a strategic effort for continuous and organized university performance, which can provide an ability to internally and environmentally meet the requirements in the academic settings. It needs some measures such as domestic capacities and competences in university, as well as collecting and analyzing the required information to support the decision making of university management, which are defined as the responsibilities of Office of Institutional Research (OIR). The present research aims to determine the strategic role of OIR in university organizational development, investigating its features and dimensions in the selected universities. The findings highlight the most important strategies of OIR as follow: 1.collection, analysis, and publication of information, 2.studying on the process, planning, performance, resources, and effectiveness of decision making units in universities, 3.supporting the decision making of university management in planning and policy making, and improving the quality. The results of the current research depict a conceptual pattern involving the strategic elements of institutional research.

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