Path-Dependence and the Challenges of Institutional Adaptability: The Case of the Niagara Region in Canada
| Autor: | Diana Panter, Charles Conteh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sociology and Political Science
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Environmental resource management 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Adaptability 0506 political science Political science 050602 political science & public administration business Path dependence media_common |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Political Science. 50:983-1004 |
| ISSN: | 1744-9324 0008-4239 |
| Popis: | The paper uses the concept of path dependence to explain the challenges and complexities of institutional adaptation at the subnational level. The notion of path dependence is rooted in the well-established research tradition of historical institutionalism, one of the variants of neoinstitutionalism. The academic literature on the new institutionalism, however, has tended to focus on the national level of analysis. But there is a growing recognition of cities and regions as the main engines of socioeconomic change in the current age of seismic global economic perturbation. Their historic and current significance has thus made them arguably more organic units of governance than modern states or supranational regimes. The discussion focuses on the Niagara region in Canada to illustrate the institutional infrastructure of governance underpinning the economic landscape of city-regions and the challenges of reform that such local regions face in an age of unprecedented global socioeconomic change. |
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