governance

Nijerya, 1960’da Birleşik Krallık’tan bağımsızlığını kazandıktan sonra, yönetim sisteminde değişiklikler olmuştur. Federal Cumhuriyet yönetiminde 3 kademe bulunur: merkezi yönetimi, eyaletler ve yerel yönetimler. Yerel yönetimlerde yıllardır yönetişim kalitesi düşük ve halka kar…

Around the world bureaucratic forms of state coordination are being displaced by new techniques of participatory governance; changes that blur the boundaries between government, markets, and civil society. These alterations to the state are routinely attributed to three global t…

This dissertation explores governance in Pakistan through a study of the state-run electrical power sector. At both the micro and macro level, the Pakistani power sector provides a lens into the heart of the Pakistani state and its governance institutions. This ethnographic and …

In the first chapter, I analyze the effect of various risks faced by commercial banks on the executive compensation in banking industry. Executives in any industry are, on average, risk averse if their compensation is not tied to the long term performance of the firm. Commercial…

After more than twelve years of major humanitarian, security and development aid and assistance from international community, the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan prepares to shift back security arrangements throughout the country from the International Security…

Research literature has documented Nigeria's leadership crisis since its independence from Great Britain in 1960. This crisis corresponds with political instability and infrastructure weaknesses, which have resulted in crime, corruption, poverty, lack of social cohesion and pers…

This dissertation advances theoretical and empirical knowledge at an especially challenging research frontier: that of the social and ecological impacts of international aid within and around national parks and other protected areas in low-income tropical countries. Systematic k…

From drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America, to violent extremism in the Horn of Africa, to insurgents in Colombia, to all three in Afghanistan and Pakistan, significant weaknesses in governance and economic development underlie many of the greatest security threats curr…

Although the international news media is often filled with reports on maritime piracy, particularly those occurring in Somalia, little research has been done in the field of criminology to understand this crime. To address these issues, the present research employed two compleme…

Kazakhstan's higher education system is based on the Soviet governance structure, limited academic freedom and no autonomy from the state. In such a system faculties are contract employees delivering predesigned courses with no incentive to bring new ideas and methods. But emplo…

The aim of this study is to advance understanding of air pollution governance in Iran through examination of supporting policy and the ‘thought-styles’ of various stakeholders. The study will focus on four stakeholder groups: international stakeholders, government affiliated Ira…

This dissertation explores the implications of political and economic reform for local scale governance, defined primarily in terms of conflict management. A decade of neoliberal reform in Africa has revealed a fundamental dilemma; regime threatening conflict is associated with,…

This dissertation examines the factors that contributed to the increase of number of internal wars in Sub Saharan Africa during the 1990s. It examines relationship between governance and internal wars in the region. Despite the fact that many of the ingredients e.g. economic dec…

Community management of Natural Resources is a growing trend throughout the world. Common Pool Resource theory has proliferated in recent years, suggesting that institutional dynamics of resource management regimes are critical for ensuring their success. This dissertation will …

Using the methodology of purposeful sampling and key informant interviews, this study sought to examine the governing structure of an Archdiocesan Catholic Schools Office to determine how it impacted its school system, and also how it relates to other Catholic schools within the…

Coal mining carries significant impacts for surrounding livelihood practices. Yet, in order to explain how specific impacts become grounded within a particular community, attention must be given to the complex assemblage of socio-political and economic forces operating at the lo…

This dissertation provides a political, cultural, and social history of central Nigeria. The time frame spans from the initial arrival of hunting, farming and fishing communities in the fourth millennium BCE until the nineteenth century CE. This work differs from other histories…

The conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' was a pivotal event in the development of Muscovy. Moscow gained possession over a previously independent political entity with a multiethnic and multiconfessional populace. The Muscovite political system adapted to the unique circumstances …

This Project Demonstrating Excellence may be summarized as reflections on unity and difference which I have gathered together into a Theology of Culture. These reflections have grown out of my work towards the development of new protocols for the religious and civil governance o…

The dissertation seeks to present, examine and evaluate the policies, processes and conditions that have facilitated the Maldives to confront and adapt to the opportunities created by and challenges posed by economic globalization. It examines how the vagaries of economic global…