Sentence examples for concept of institutions from inspiring English sources

There is a lack of a clear understanding of the concept of institutions for communal resource management such as irrigation.

Drawing on classical and modern social science literature, I claim that we need a broader concept of institutions than is currently in fashion among fisheries social scientists inspired by rational choice.

The concept of institutions is used in two ways.

But the new institutionalists adopt a broader concept of institution that includes norms, habits, and cultural customs alongside formal rules, procedures, and organizations.

Although the concepts of institutions in economics and institutional analysis have been integrated in recent writings about payments for ecosystem services (PES), their joint operationalization and testing have been limited.

Since an organization can only be evil, or perform evil actions, if it is morally responsible for what it does, the debate concerning the concept of evil institutions in sense (1) is discussed under the heading of 'collective responsibility.' Evil institutions in this sense will not be discussed in this entry.

"The concept of an institution for jazz is a very new thing — obviously, Jazz at Lincoln Center made that concept work," said Randall Kline, the group's director.

The situation of institutionalized senior veterans shares many characteristics with the concept of "total institution".

Elsewhere in Europe, the concept of mutually-owned institutions is in sclerotic decline.

"This concept of involving academic institutions in these issues is a marvelous opportunity to bring more expertise to solve the problems that we face," Dr. Klingborg said.

The book has been described as "ethnography of the concept of the total institution".