The central focus of development studies is how social and economic change can be achieved successfully. Critical to this success is institutional development, as it is through developments in institutions that development in the policies that drive change can be achieved. However, institutions are rich and complex phenomena, and institutional development is a rich and complex process. It is therefore possible and necessary to look at institutions from different angles and see them in different ways. This free course encourages you to do exactly that, in order to establish a base from which to think about institutional development.
This course presents you with three widely accepted ways of seeing institutions:
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TU872 Institutional development: Conflicts, values and meanings .
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