International Allies, Institutional Layering and Power in the Making of Labour in Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1007-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Zajak
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Layering

INSTITUTIONAL LAYERING IN GOVERNING HEALTHCARE QUALITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
HESTER M. VAN DE BOVENKAMP ◽  
MARLEEN DE MUL ◽  
JULIA G.U. QUARTZ ◽  
ANNE MARIE J.W.M. WEGGELAAR-JANSEN ◽  
ROLAND BAL
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
Institutional Layering

scholarly journals Working with layers: The governance and regulation of healthcare quality in an institutionally layered system

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hester M van de Bovenkamp ◽  
Annemiek Stoopendaal ◽  
Roland Bal
Keyword(s):  
Interesting Case ◽  
Layered System ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Dutch Hospital ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Supervisory Boards ◽  
Continuous Interaction ◽  
Institutional Layering

Institutional arrangements used to steer public policies have increasingly become layered. Inspired by the literature on institutional layering and institutional work, this paper aims to make a contribution to our understanding of institutional layering. We do so by studying an interesting case of layering: the Dutch hospital sector. We focus on the actors responsible for the internal governance (Board of Directors and Supervisory Boards) and the external regulation (the Healthcare Inspectorate) of hospitals. In the paper, we explore the institutional work of these actors, more specifically how institutional work results from and is influenced by institutional layering and how this in turn influences the institutional makeup of both healthcare organizations and their institutional context. Our approach allowed us to see that layering changes the activities of actors in the public sector, can be used to strengthen one’s position but also presents actors with new struggles, which they in turn can try to overcome by relating and using the institutionally layered context. Layering and institutional work are therefore in continuous interaction. Combining institutional layering with a focus on the lived experiences of actors and their institutional work makes it possible to move into the layered arrangement and better understand its consequences.

scholarly journals Disrupting the Growth Machine: Evidence from Hawai‘i

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 428-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Darrah-Okike
Keyword(s):  
Native Hawaiian ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
State Level ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
Regional Institutions ◽  
Preservation Law ◽  
Institutional Layering

For much of its modern history, growth machine dynamics in Hawai‘i prevailed on a regional scale. Strikingly, recent events suggest that the hegemony of Hawai‘i’s growth machine has been disrupted. This article offers an in-depth case study of a major luxury development project on the island of Hawai‘i where development interests were thwarted despite the support of growth interests and local government officials. I show how local protesters made use of state-level historic preservation law, Native Hawaiian burial protections, state-level agricultural boundaries, and frames and meanings of land promulgated by the Native Hawaiian movement. Viewing this stalled housing project as an extended case study reveals how regional institutions and flexible social movement frames can be leveraged to promote alternatives to growth machines. I also highlight how distinctive regional institutions—that have evolved over time through institutional layering—may be prompting growth machine disruption in Hawai‘i, an understudied tourism and real-estate dependent economy. Finally, the case study suggests specific ways that local mobilization interacts with global economic downturns to shape spatial outcomes.

scholarly journals Institutional Layering: A Review of the Use of the Concept

Politics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen van der Heijden
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Layering

The Ainu and Indigenous politics in Japan: negotiating agency, institutional stability, and change

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Eléonore Komai
Keyword(s):  
Policy Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Indigenous Politics ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Institutional Stability ◽  
High Level ◽  
Institutional Layering ◽  
Institutional Legacies

Abstract In April 2019, the Japanese government officially legally recognized the Ainu as Indigenous people. Building on an institutionalist framework, the paper suggests that a phenomenon of institutional layering has taken place, resulting in tensions between the desire to preserve the legitimacy of old institutions and the pressure to develop more progressive policies. To explain this process, policy legacies, and institutional opportunities are relevant. First, the narrative that equality can be attained through assimilation, and the political construction of the “Ainu problem” as a regional one tied to Hokkaido pervade political imaginaries and institutions. Second, institutional opportunities have mediated the ways activists have sought to make their voices heard in the political arena. A focus on key historical segments illuminates the difficulty for activists to penetrate high-level political arenas while indicating the importance of agency, ties and interests in explaining major reforms and their limitations. The ambiguity that characterizes current policy framework points to the potential leverage that this policy configuration represents for the Ainu. At the same time, historical and institutional legacies that have shaped Indigenous politics continue to constrain, to a great extent, the possibilities for meaningful and transformative developments for the Ainu.

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