Browsing by Author "Underdal, Arild"

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    Designing Politically Feasible Solutions
    (1991) Underdal, Arild
    "What can be accomplished through collective decision-making processes may generally be seen as a function of three basic determinants: the institutional setting (determing the set of actors, the agenda, the venue and time of meetings, and the 'rules of the game'), the configuration of actor preferences, and the total amount as well as the distribution of relevant political resources, including the elusive asset of skill. In exploring the political feasibility of a potential solution, we normally accept all these factors as exogenously determined, and ask three main questions (1) What are the minimal requirements that a solution shall have to meet in order to be adopted and implemented under these circumstances? (2) What is the maximum that we can hope to accomplish? (3) How would we design a solution if our only concern were to maximize its chances of being adopted and implemented?"
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    Institutional Dimensions of Global Change: A Preliminary Scoping Report
    (1997) Underdal, Arild; Young, Oran R.
    "What we now present is a preliminary scoping report. It provides, we believe, a sufficient basis for the new International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) Scientific Committee to decide whether or not to move toward the development of an integrated module or project on institutions and - if the decision is positive - to give important feedback on the general purpose and scope of such a module. More time is needed, however, to specify precisely how a module on institutions should be designed in order to maximize 'value added' in relation to extensive research on institutions already underway in the various social sciences. Among the tasks that remain to be performed are in-depth literature reviews and additional work to specify and establish productive links to other IHDP activities, in particular research in substantive problem areas such as land use/land cover change."