Routes To Reform

Author : Ben Ross Schneider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197758878
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routes to Reform written by Ben Ross Schneider and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The key to sustained and equitable development in Latin America is high quality education for all. However, coalitions favoring quality reforms in education are usually weak because parents are dispersed, business is not interested, and much of the middle class has exited public education. In Routes to Reform, Ben Ross Schneider examines education policy throughout Latin America to show that reforms to improve learning--especially making teacher careers more meritocratic and less political--are possible. Several Andean countries and state governments in Brazil achieved notable reform since 2000, though on markedly different trajectories. Although rare, the first bottom-up route to reform was electoral. The second route was more top-down and technocratic, with little support from voters or civil society. Ultimately, by framing education policy in a much broader comparative perspective, Schneider demonstrates that contrary to much established theory, reform outcomes in Latin America depended less on institutions and broad coalitions, but rather--due to the emptiness of the education policy space--on more micro factors like civil society organizations, teacher unions, policy networks, and technocrats.

Author : David Kuehn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803362
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routes to Reform written by David Kuehn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conditions under which new democracies succeed or fail in establishing firm and lasting civilian control of the military. David Kuehn and Aurel Croissant introduce a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to evaluate the degree of civilian control in new democracies and to trace developments over time. The theory of civilian control in new democracies that they propose integrates rationalist, structuralist, and institutionalist arguments into acoherent model to explain when, how, and through which causal mechanism new democracies succeed or fail in establishing and sustaining civilian control over the military. This theory is tested on an original dataset on civilian control over the military in 66 countries that have made the transitionfrom authoritarian to democratic rule at least once in the period from 1974 to 2010. The study traces the effects of different degrees of civilian control on the survival and democratic quality of third wave democracies, combining large-N statistical analyses with detailed case study narratives of several countries. The book establishes a comprehensive understanding of the conditions and processes under which third wave democracies succeeded or failed in establishing firm and lasting civiliancontrol of the military-and its consequences for the survival and quality of the new democratic structures, processes, and practices.

Author : Ben Ross Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197758892
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routes to Reform written by Ben Ross Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compared to other policy areas like health care, education is a relatively empty policy area because the beneficiaries--students and families, and business--are not politically active or relevant. This emptiness allows reform opponents like teacher unions and clientelist politicians to have greater impact, as well as pro-reform groups like civil society, policy networks and technocrats. Governments that managed to overhaul teacher careers took either a bottom-up electoral route (Chile and Ecuador) or a top-down technocratic route (Peru and Colombia). In other cases, machine unions (Mexico) or clientelist politicians (state of Rio de Janeiro) overturned career reforms."--

Author : Will Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139438549
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Options for Global Trade Reform written by Will Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the decision of the WTO members to launch a new round of negotiations at their Doha Ministerial in November 2001, developing countries continue to have very real concerns on a number of key issues. The successful completion of the Doha trade round and the realization of the goals of its Development Agenda represent a major challenge for both the developed and the developing world. The primary aim of this volume is to improve understanding of the issues, the objectives of policy and the options for trade policy reform particularly as they impact on the Asia-Pacific region. A team of authors from developing and developed countries in the Asia-Pacific identify ways in which progress might be made on the key negotiating topics, including market access and related issues in agriculture, non-agriculture merchandise and in trade in services.

Author : Michael A. Crew
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461544815
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Directions in Postal Reform written by Michael A. Crew and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry. Issues addressed include international postal policy; the universal service obligation; regulation; competition, entry, and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in the postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and service standards.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264193456
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in Greece 2001 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of regulatory reform in Greece presents an integrated assessment of areas such as the quality of the public sector, competition policy and enforcement, and market openness. It also contains chapters on sectors such as telecommunications, electricity, domestic ferries and trucking.

Author : American Bar Association. Commission on Law and the Economy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Regulation, Roads to Reform written by American Bar Association. Commission on Law and the Economy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reform in Statutory Pay Provisions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 2712, to amend provisions of law relating to longevity step increases for postal employees.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office & Civil Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reform in Statutory Pay Provisions, Hearings ... 87-2 ... Feb. 6, 15, 20, Mar. 2, 20, July 20, Aug. 7, 1962 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office & Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael A. Crew
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461516714
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Directions in Postal Reform written by Michael A. Crew and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Directions in Postal Reform brings together leading practitioners, world-wide postal administrations, and the courier industry, as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers, and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry. Issues addressed include international postal policy; the universal service obligation; regulation; competition, entry, and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and future technologies and service standards.