institutional mechanism

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The technology has emerged because the existing institutional mechanisms for enforcement are inadequate, expensive to use, and imperfect.
This interpretation suggests that overtly political institutional mechanisms did not operate as the primary factor to block change.
In such circumstances, bioprospecting contracts have the potential to be key institutional mechanisms in providing incentives and distributing returns from biodiversity and biodiversity prospecting.
Such institutional mechanisms aim both to prevent the dual loyalty conflict in the first place and to resolve and redress conflicts that do arise.
They sought to tie interest to duty through institutional mechanisms to thwart destructive, self-serving passions and to secure the public good.
However, they explained that there were currently no formal institutional mechanisms through which this could take place.
These policy discourses are reinforced by the establishment of new institutional mechanisms that shape the form and process of public participation.
Formal institutional mechanisms work less rather than more.
At both ports, trust depended at least as much on institutional mechanisms as on personal relations.
Moreover, it also neglects other institutional mechanisms increasingly important in the regulatory and agency context such as independent audit and review.
In this study, we suggest two institutional mechanisms.
During this time, most welfare states witnessed significant changes in the character of the institutional mechanisms through which health, educational and welfare services are allocated.
This continued to be important even as the mandate perception faded because the leaders could rely on institutional mechanisms rather than on temporary changes in member behaviour.
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