Splitting Climate Engineering Governance: How Problem Structure Shapes Institutional Design

Warming Trend: How Climate Shapes Vibrio Ecology

How structure shapes (dys)function

Structure is a key determinant of function, with the nervous system being no exception. For example, in the nervous system the physiological properties of different synapses may be understood by comparing their structures. However, it is not clear whether specific structural properties of some neurons might play a role in driving their selective removal during chronic neurodegeneration or wheth...

Governing Governance: A Formal Framework for Analysing Institutional Design and Enactment Governance

in the highest–level institutions and the most concretely defined in the lowest–level institutions. To give an example, at the (typically) highest level of governance human rights charters use abstract terminology such as ‘fairness’ or ‘privacy’ which can have many different interpretations. At a slightly lower–level, such as supranational agreements or EU directives, the terminology is more pr...

Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance

The growing dominance of equity holdings by institutional investors, both domestic and international, is casting a sharp focus on their activities and owners and monitors of firms. It is suggested that whereas some general considerations arise in all cases, it is useful to separate discussion of the developments in the Anglo Saxon countries and continental Europe/Japan. The former is showing an...

Corportate Governance and Institutional Trading

Corportate Governance and Institutional Trading