Despite being comparatively similar countries, the United States and Canada have taken very different historical tracks to developing their respective health care systems. While Canada incrementally developed a system of universal coverage through national public insurance, the …
The present thesis evaluates the responses of the contemporary Greek foreign policy structures and processes, conceptualised as the Greek foreign policy system, in the face of the transformation of world politics. This transformation, precipitated by the concurrent complex proce…
The thesis takes up the Ottoman story to develop an elaborate critique to the theory of path dependence while encompassing other complimentary theories, and to offer a comprehensive perspective for understanding institutional change and evolutionary development. The Ottoman weal…
This thesis is an inquiry into the challenges to the role of civic organisations in political reform during and after political transitions. The major question this research addresses is: How do institutions and institutional dynamics constrain political reform during a transiti…
Der überwiegende Teil der Krankenversorgung in Deutschland findet in fragmentierten Strukturen statt. Getrennte Leistungssektoren, zu denen die ambulante und stationäre Krankenversorgung zählen, gehen mit funktionalen Brüchen in der Zusammenarbeit der Gesundheitsprofessionen ein…
This dissertation argues that status quo bias in crime location choice has substantial effects on geographic crime patterns. Offenders often re-select prior crime locations when they commit crimes. Mainstream theories argue this is because such locations are objectively more sui…