Regional governance has improved efficiencies in various common goods such as transportation. Attempts to take advantage of such regional economies through regulation of land use run into the problems of existing local government controls and lack of existing alternative authority. One way to help promote regional solutions is to foster coordination among land use entities in local government. ...

This paper criticizes the divide ‘by assumption’ between rational choice and behavioral choice and proposes a way of reconnecting ‘bounded’ and ‘unbounded’ rationality. The connection is an epistemic model of rational discovery and problem modeling which can complement both the descriptive behavioral models of search and choice and the prescriptive model of rational choice. The concept of epist...

The study aimed to determine the impact between rational governance and financial performance on a sample of pharmaceutical companies listed in the Amman Stock Exchange. The questionnaire was used to collect data, where (200) inquiries were received (170) valid for statistical analysis were excluded (10) where used in Analysis process (160) of the total questionnaires distributed and to achieve...

This paper explores the frontiers of research on Corporate Governance, analyzes dominant theoretical framework, and proposes a agenda based practice theorists. It highlights need to consider social dimensions alongside rational-utilitarian aspects in corporate governance practices. By examining everyday organizational practices, study aims foster reflective holistic understanding governance. ch...

The broadest meaning of governance is the regulation of social activities utilizing a variety of modes and mechanism of societal regulation. These range from collectively binding decisions to uncoordinated individual action guided by social norms and rationality principles. In the political science literature of the 1950s and 1960s this theoretical problem was treated in terms of "control" and ...

Four diplomatic models have been elaborated, with reference to the main Western political cultures: the conservative, the liberal, the socialdemocrat/constructivist and the socialist/manichean. Then, these categories of political sociology have been applied to the four arenas of world governance: cultural (conflicts between different nations and/or civilizations), military (peace and war intera...

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. To investigate this phenomenon, rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using a large data set covering close to 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce the probability of politicians being attacked or killed: extend...

Resilience thinkers share an interest in collaborative deliberation with communicative planners, who aim to accommodate different forms of knowledge and styles of reasoning to promote social learning and yield creative and equitable agreements. Members of both fields attended a symposium at Virginia Tech in late 2008, where communicative planners considered how social–ecological resilience info...