Forty-three of the fifty states of the United States have granted item veto authority to their governors as part of state constitutions. In this paper, I test explanations of why and when a legislature would cede institutional power. Using data from 1865 to 1994, I show that these measures are most likely proposed by fiscal conservatives who fear the loss of power in the future; in order to pro...

The loss of the monopoly of “useful” scientific and practical knowledge that has been held by the US, Western Europe and Japan since the mid19Century is surely one of the defining events of our time. We are just beginning to see how the subsequent global dissemination of this sort of knowledge is affecting our economic and social institutions within the current phases of globalization. Concurre...

I ask in this article how the inhabitants migrants and non-migrants of a specific geographical space, a small Swiss city in French-speaking Switzerland, live out different forms of transnationalism. Transnationalism is for this purpose defined and operationalized on two dimensions: I make a distinction between network transnationalism and what I call transnational subjectivity. The first dimens...

Since the 1950s there have been numerous contributions proposing solutions to failures of social systems. However, we have hardly found a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to a failed social system beyond “stove-piped” academic disciplines. This paper identifies a new holistic and interdisciplinary systems engineering methodology of systems engineering for a social system through a case s...

Exploring the role of social identities in presidential candidate evaluation Taylor Michals Committee members: Dr. Crystal Hoyt, Dr. Al Goethals, Dr. Jennifer Erkulwater This research demonstrates how the social identities of race and gender can influence presidential candidate evaluation. Specifically, it emphasizes that political ideology and gender attitudes can play a significant role in ho...

Social innovation is an initiative, product or process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs of any social system. Successful social innovations have durability and broad impact. While social innovation has recognizable stages and phases, achieving durability and scale is a dynamic process that requires both emergence of opportunity and d...

AIM To explore the views of the Israeli public on expanding the authority of nurses and identify factors affecting these views. BACKGROUND New advanced nursing roles are currently being introduced and nursing is undergoing dynamic change. Public views on expanding the authority of nurses and factors affecting public views await investigation. METHOD In a correlational study, a questionnaire...

Stresses present in different forms and call for subtly different responses. Conventional modes of planning seek to render such stressors manageable by administering them discretely. This has generally resulted in a segregated approach to spatial planning wherein functional delineations have become institutionally ‘sedimented’ within planning authorities (flood risk management, open space deman...

This paper studies the e¤ect of social ties on governance. Social ties are per se neutral and merely act as incentive bridges that transmit incentives across individuals. Whether this improves or undermines governance depends on what incentives are transmitted. We demonstrate this in a delegated monitoring model where the supervisor is friends with the agent and cares about social recognition. ...

This paper sheds light on the general mechanisms underlying large-scale social and institutional change. We employ an agent-based model to test the impact of authority centralization and social network technology on preference falsification and institutional change. We find that preference falsification is increasing with centralization and decreasing with social network range. This leads to gr...