Chantiers de reconstruction politique en comparaison : La « décentralisation » en période post-révolutionnaire en Tunisie et en Libye by Sami Yassine Turki, Chiara Loschi

“…The authors propose here to compare the process of decentralization policies building after the fall of the authoritarian regimes, emphasizing the importance of the institutional and political heritage on the one hand, the role of local actors, on the other hand.The comparison of the two countries under the transition, referring to the contrasting political contexts, allows grasping the roles of the old and new actors, the articulation between old and new institutional mechanisms, and the emergence of new practices at the local level. …”
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Mortality and patient disposition after ICU tracheostomy for secretion management vs. prolonged ventilation: a retrospective cohort study by Dominique Dundaru-Bandi, Linda M. Zhu, Milana Schipper, Paul J. Warshawsky, Blair C. Schwartz

“…Patients receiving a tracheostomy for secretion management were twice as likely to be discharged to a new institution compared to prolonged ventilation patients. …”
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Decision-making under epistemic, strategic and institutional uncertainty during COVID-19: findings from a six-country empirical study by Clare Wenham, Alexandra L Phelan, Winifred Ukponu, Sumegha Asthana, Tahmina Shirin, Claire J Standley, Adachioma Chinonso Ihueze, Sanjana Mukherjee, Ibrahim B Gobir, Mohannad Al Nsour, JJ Woo, Mohammad Mushtuq Husain, Nevashan Govender, Roujia Lin, Sumit Asthana, Renee Vongai Mutare

“…Decision-making under institutional uncertainty involved using or adapting pre-existing experiences, structures and relationships and establishing new institutions and processes.Conclusions We contribute to the theory and practice of public health crisis decision-making by presenting a unified national-level applied decision-making framework for events involving uncertainty. …”
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New Development Bank as Aid Donor to School Education by Rodion Sadykov, Yevgeny Uchaev

“…., World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank) and “new” institutions (e.g., NDB, AIIB) has positioned the former to prioritize social sector investments while the latter address deficits in infrastructure financing. …”
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The Impact of Urbanization on Lives of People in Uganda: A Case Study of Kampala City. by Byonanebye, Bright

“…The inflow of new residents to urban areas results in the need for more buildings and infrastructures, new institutions, and often, new ways of life. How does this relate to the people's standards of living? …”
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Civil servants' activity regulation in Lithuania 1918-1940 by Jolanta Palidauskaitė, Milda Petrokaitė

“…Not only practitioners but scholars and lawyers participated in public discussions from 1935-1939, trying to find out how to make the work of bureaucrats more efficient, how to better control and organize their work, prevent the creation of new institutions and offices, etc. Public discussion and ideas of scholars were rather modern, progressive, and reminded ideas of famous authorities of management. …”
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The financial character of policing in Tunisia: collusions, extraversion and the criminalization of informality by Daniela Musina

“…Secondly, the related creation of new institutions that, although having little power on their own and being substantially controlled by the presidential power and that of the Ministry of Interior, are embedded in transnational networks and serve to channel extraverted strategies vis à vis donors and external partners. …”
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Pouvoir politique et pouvoir religieux. L’exploitation de la Sanusiyya au sein de la Libye indépendante (1951-1958) by Carlotta Marchi

“…It is therefore possible to argue that, within independent Libya, occurred a process of change and bureaucratisation for the Sanusiyya, to the extent that the ṭarīqa found itself acting within a new institutional framework that the brotherhood itself had helped to create and consolidate, by guaranteeing a political legitimacy based on religious assumptions.…”
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AKRASIJA IR SUBJEKTAS EGONOMIKOJE by Zenonas Norkus

“…He redescribes the relationship between Me and I in the vocabulary used by new institutional economics to analyse the relations between principal and agent. …”
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