Sökning: "institutional legacies"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden institutional legacies.
1. All Interventionists Now? : On the Political Economy of Active Labor Market Policy as Micro-Interventionist Multi-Tools
Sammanfattning : As recent decades have seen a growing interest in reforming advanced welfare states to promote employment, active labor market policy (ALMP) has emerged as a major topic of inquiry among comparative political economists. Whereas the literature to date disagrees on, and mostly downplays, the role of partisan politics in the development of ALMP, this dissertation shows that political actors systematically use ALMP programs in different ways to achieve distinct political aims. LÄS MER
2. Fair Trading Law in Flux? : National Legacies, Institutional Choice and the Process of Europeanisation
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3. Stakeholder Influence in Higher Education : Old Ideas in New Bottles?
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with how national higher education policy affects stakeholder influence in practice, i.e. how two selected higher education institutions, the University of Oslo and Telemark University College, have interpreted and adapted to national policy reforms. The aim of this dissertation is threefold. LÄS MER
4. The Establishment of Semi-Presidential Regimes : A Mixed Methods Approach to Why and How
Sammanfattning : One of the crucial constitutional choices made in a democratizing or recently independent state is the structure of executive-legislative relations that forms into a parliamentary, presidential, or semi-presidential regime. Even so, only a few studies have sought the reasons for the establishment and least of all is known when it comes to the most recent of them: the semi-presidential one. LÄS MER
5. The Governance Gap : Central–local steering & mental health reform in Britain and Sweden
Sammanfattning : Why do governments choose certain types of governance strategies to steer the lower level agencies such as municipalities, health services and other welfare agencies? This is a problem facing many governments in the era of public management reforms, where policies are decided at national level while service responsibilities are decentralised and implemented by lower levels. Thus the main mechanism for governments to influence the implementation of these national reforms is through its choice of strategies and instruments to fill the governance gap between national policy-making and local government. LÄS MER
