Elusive Reform

Author : Edward B. Fiske
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815728405
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Equity written by Edward B. Fiske and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elusive Equity" chronicles South Africas efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd draw on previously unpublished data, interviews with key officials, and visits to dozens of schools to describe the changes made in school finance, teacher assignment policies, governance, curriculum, higher education, and other areas.

Author : Mark Ungar
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588260352
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Reform written by Mark Ungar and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy cannot exist, proclaims Ungar (political science, City U. of New York-Brooklyn College) without the rule of law, which he defines as comprising an independent effective judiciary, state accountability to the law, and citizen accessibility to conflict-resolution mechanisms. He looks to Latin American countries to illustrate how stable democracies are undermined by executive power and judicial disarray that prevent the rule of law from taking hold. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Santiago Levy Algazi
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 1597823058
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under-Rewarded Efforts written by Santiago Levy Algazi and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has an economy that has done so many things right failed to grow fast? Under-Rewarded Efforts traces Mexico’s disappointing growth to flawed microeconomic policies that have suppressed productivity growth and nullified the expected benefits of the country’s reform efforts. Fast growth will not occur doing more of the same or focusing on issues that may be key bottlenecks to productivity growth elsewhere, but not in Mexico. It will only result from inclusive institutions that effectively protect workers against risks, redistribute towards those in need, and simultaneously align entrepreneurs’ and workers’ incentives to raise productivity.

Author : Amer Nizar Ghrawi
Publisher : Studies on Modern Orient
ISBN 13 : 9783879974443
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Elusive Hope written by Amer Nizar Ghrawi and published by Studies on Modern Orient. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to review the state reforms that have been carried out in Syria during the first presidential period of Bashar Al-Assad and the "elusive hopes" that came with them. Caught in an authoritarian system, Syrians linked the prospect of a broad state reform to hopes for economic and social progress, greater political participation and better public administration, and above all, an improved service delivery and less corruption. However, the promised reforms failed to deliver the expected results and led to more than just disappointment. In his study, Amer Ghrawi analyzes the interplay between factors at both national and regional levels and how they shaped the course of reform and caused its gradual derailing. He provides a detailed account of a very specific reform, describes how this reform was implemented, how it got trapped and abandoned, and why. In retrospect, the period from 2000 to 2007 is indeed crucial for understanding the catastrophic events that followed. In fact, the reforms might well have been Bashar Al-Assad ́s only chance to prevent the country from sliding into its current chaos.

Author : Vanessa Sheared
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815330578
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Gender, and Welfare Reform written by Vanessa Sheared and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses African American women's experiences with public assistance. Critiques the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Programme arguing that it perpetuates the marginalization of women.

Author : Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932882
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Equality written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial role that Norfolk's African Americans played in efforts to equalize and integrate the city's schools. The authors relate how local activists participated in the historic teacher-pay-parity cases of the 1930s and 1940s, how they fought against the school closures and "Massive Resistance" of the 1950s, and how they challenged continuing patterns of discrimination by insisting on crosstown busing in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the advances made by local activists, however, Littlejohn and Ford argue that the vaunted "urban advantage" supposedly now enjoyed by Norfolk's public schools is not easy to reconcile with the city's continuing gaps and disparities in relation to race and class. In analyzing the history of struggles over school integration in Norfolk, the authors scrutinize the stories told by participants, including premature declarations of victory that laud particular achievements while ignoring the larger context in which they take place. Their research confirms that Norfolk was a harbinger of national trends in educational policy and civil rights. Drawing on recently released archival materials, oral interviews, and the rich newspaper coverage in the Journal and Guide, Virginian-Pilot, and Ledger-Dispatch, Littlejohn and Ford present a comprehensive, multidimensional, and unsentimental analysis of the century-long effort to gain educational equality. A historical study with contemporary implications, their book offers a balanced view based on a thorough, sober look at where Norfolk's school district has been and where it is going.

Author : Habiba S. Cohen
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Reform written by Habiba S. Cohen and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1978-12-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 078672269X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And We Are Not Saved written by Derek Bell and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished legal scholar and civil rights activist employs a series of dramatic fables and dialogues to probe the foundations of America’s racial attitudes and raise disturbing questions about the nature of our society.

Author : Simone Abram
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459163
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive Promises written by Simone Abram and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently-as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what actual work is done and how it affects people's lives.

Author : William Easterly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Quest for Growth written by William Easterly and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: