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Where Is an Institution?

We talk about institutions as if they were things we could point to. A ministry occupies a building. A university has campuses. A hospital has wards, employees and equipment. A…

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WP-C-L01-001 — Computational Governance Framework

The accelerating complexity of contemporary societies requires democratic institutions capable not only of exercising legitimate public authority but also of continuously understanding, interpreting and adapting to rapidly evolving social, technological,…

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WP-B-L01-001 – Cognitive Architectures of Institutions

Institutional Cognition begins by recognising that institutions are capable of organised cognitive activity. Our preceding Working Paper established the conceptual foundations of this proposition by demonstrating that institutions may be…

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WP-A-L01-001 – Foundations of Institutional Cognition

The completion of the constitutional phase of the IDHUS research programme established the conceptual foundations of Institutional Cognition as a new constitutional framework for understanding institutions as adaptive cognitive systems…

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