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Administrative Reform

Administrative Reform

What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do they approach their task? And who benefits and who suffers from it? Does a theory of administrative reform exist?A survey of published research on administrative reform reveals that satisfactory answers to these questions are handicapped by methodological and theoretical shortcomings. There are no common definitions no agreement over content no selected boundaries no clear links with the wide phenomenon of social reform no firm hypothesis tested by empirical findings and no continuous dialogue between practitioners and theorists. This book is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the subject for professionals and students in the fields of public and private administration. It carefully examines the diverse interdisciplinary literature on the subject and identifies and develops the most promising approaches towards a unified theory. Caiden shows how the study of administrative reform can contribute substantially to the development of administrative theory and constructs a working definition of the phenomenon of administrative reform distinguishing it from social change and from administrative change. The practical use of this definition is tested by the analysis of various case histories of administrative cultures of different periods in history from which a common cycle of reform processes is discerned. The author follows with a detailed examination of the processes themselves. The book concludes with a discussion of the obstacles to reform and a review of the author's findings and conclusions.

GBP 130.00
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Understanding Electoral Reform

Understanding Electoral Reform

The field of elections and electoral systems and particularly electoral reform has exhibited tremendous growth and cross-national appeal over the last two decades. However beyond an increased knowledge of voting rules and their consequences for political representation little attention has been devoted to the question of why electoral systems have recently undergone substantial change in several liberal democracies. This book addresses several new approaches to electoral reform. First the scope of the study of electoral reform has been expanded. Second contrary to previous studies of electoral reform the conviction that the determinants of reform can be explained by one single approach has been replaced by a belief in a more comprehensive framework for analysis. Third we move beyond political parties (acting in parliament and government) as the most significant source of electoral reform. Fourth a focus on the determinants of electoral reform allows us to include motivations and objectives of electoral reform. A final advancement in the study of electoral reform is the inclusion of countries other than ‘established’ democracies. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics. | Understanding Electoral Reform

GBP 46.99
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Assessment Policy Reform

Assessment Policy Reform

This book highlights the impact of policy and politics on assessment across the globe. With contributions from England the Irish Republic Northern Ireland Norway Sweden Switzerland and Wales it explores state-led assessment policies and practices that have been the subject of much debate. We are experiencing a shift from using assessments — especially national tests — as measurement instruments designed to produce information to a reliance on tests to influence policy and instruction. Once tests become high stakes — for students teachers and schools — even those that might have been reasonable monitors of educational success can lose dependability and credibility. However not all countries’ assessment policies follow the same model and the contributors explore and analyse a range of different national (and supra-national) assessment policy approaches and perspectives. The chapters identify the impetus behind changing assessment policies and practices and analyse ways forward and innovative approaches. Readers can draw their own conclusions about which model(s) can provide the best outcomes for learners – surely the most important part of the equation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education: Principles Policy & Practice. | Assessment Policy Reform

GBP 38.99
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Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

One of the most prevailing myths within the social sciences is the difficulty of achieving reform. Governments are either unwilling to push for reform or if they are willing they are unable to do so. This volume illustrates that reform can and does happen and therefore need not by mythologized. Through carefully selected case studies the contributions to this volume illustrate reform in several policy sectors and countries to include the smoking bans in Ireland public housing in the Netherlands and asylum procedures in Germany. Designed to enhance our understanding of the reform process this volume is highly suited to the fields of public administration and policy. | Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

GBP 11.99
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Police Reform in China

Police Reform in China

With nearly 20 percent of the world’s population located in China what happens there is significant to all nations. Sweeping changes have altered the cultural landscape of China and as opportunities for wealth have grown in recent years so have opportunities for crime. Police Reform in China provides a rare and insightful glimpse of policing in the midst of such change. The book begins with a historical account of police reform in the region since 2000. Next it discusses the difficulties encountered in trying to understand Chinese policing such as outdated perceptions misinformation cultural ignorance ideological hegemony and problems with paternalistic attitudes. The book recommends studying China from a local perspective informed by local research and data suggesting that understanding China requires a cultural shift to the Chinese way of life in thinking and more importantly feeling. The author then summarizes selected policy papers from Gongan Yanjiu a leading international policy journal. He first documents how the thinking and aspirations of various generations of Chinese leaders from Mao to Deng and now Jiang and Hu came to affect Chinese policing in theory and practice. He then addresses the emergence of a police legitimacy crisis as evidenced by the deterioration of public image and rebellions against police authority. Demonstrating how old ideologies are increasingly in conflict with the values and lifestyles of a new mentality the book discusses steps that can be taken to improve professionalism. The final chapters investigate such problems as abuses of discretion and the improper use of firearms and highlight the importance of understanding the Chinese people culture values and interests in order to truly effectuate successful police reform.

GBP 69.99
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Law Reforms Around the World Perspectives from National and International Law

Law Reforms Around the World Perspectives from National and International Law

Encapsulating Law Reform requires the creation of a discreet space occupied with normative self-generation self-correction and self-adaptation in the very anatomy of law and the architecture of legal systems. This ‘living dynamic trait’ should be a hallmark of the genetic material in the modern-day institution of law. This edited volume sheds light on Law Reform in its domestic comparative regional and international settings. It examines the process of Law Reform and explains the need for a constant appraisal to keep its wheels optimally operational. The book takes a holistic approach to understanding Law Reform and calls for such an approach in the very process of Law Reform. It begins by looking at Law Reform processes from a theoretical perspective. Thereafter it sheds light on domestic Law Reform processes in civil and common law legal systems. This is followed by a focus on Law Reform at the international level with a critical appraisal of the International Law Commission (ILC) drawing on its performance in international economic and environmental law. Included in this consideration is also the role played in Law Reform by the IMF World Trade Organization/World Intellectual Property Organization Multilateral Development Banks and the African Union Commission on International Law. This volume should appeal to students serious scholars policy makers judges and the community of national and international lawyers interested in bringing effective reform in the national and international arenas. | Law Reforms Around the World Perspectives from National and International Law

GBP 130.00
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Mapping the Terrain of Education Reform Global trends and local responses in the Philippines

Mapping the Terrain of Education Reform Global trends and local responses in the Philippines

This book envisions the formulation of critical perspectives on education reform using the Philippine experience recognizing the need to address relevant issues and challenges particularly in an increasingly globalized twenty-first century setting. A specific education reform project the Leaders and Educators in Asia Programme (LEAP) a joint effort between the Philippines’ Department of Education the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines the National Institute of Education-Singapore and Singapore’s Temasek Foundation serves as the analytical focus of how education reform as a globalized movement is implemented interpreted and made sense of by stakeholders involved in the reform project. This inquiry proposes to examine the problematique of education reform – from a Philippine perspective – by focusing on three analytical starting points: (1) describing the most relevant and urgent issues of education reform; (2) diagnosing the causes and consequences of reform failures; and (3) developing critical and contextualized perspectives on reform trajectories. Mapping the Terrain of Education Reforms: Global trends and local responses in the Philippines discusses the following: Challenges against effective education reforms The oscillation between global and local imperatives The dissociation between policymakers and practitioners Education reform aid in the Philippines This book will be of interest to researchers interested in education policy politics and reforms. It will also appeal to scholars examining Asian and particularly Southeast Asian educational systems. | Mapping the Terrain of Education Reform Global trends and local responses in the Philippines

GBP 46.99
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Pension Reform in Latin America

Pension Reform in Latin America

First published in 1998 this volume initially focused on Chilean pension reform on which the author has published elsewhere before moving onto Latin America more widely with coverage extending from 1990 to the reform in Costa Rica and the Mexican pension reform in 1997. It emerged in the wake of reforms including in Peru (1993) Argentina and Colombia (1994) and Uruguay (1996). Particular focus is given to the new individual capitalization pension plans along with arguments on the ignoring of pension schemes and its consequences the connection of pension schemes to the labour market and the impact of pension schemes on the least advantaged. The Chilean model in particular has received praise from the IMF and the World Bank and these Latin American pension reforms will be of interest as a paradigm for other countries. | Pension Reform in Latin America

GBP 31.99
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Radical Journalism Resurgence Reform Reaction

Radical Journalism Resurgence Reform Reaction

This edited volume offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the historical role of radical journalism its present iterations and plans for the future of a journalism that is committed to liberatory movements and politics. At a time of profound crisis and stagnation for mainstream journalism radical journalism seems to be riding a wave. New outlets including those – like Jacobin – with a global reach have sprung up presenting a new generation of unapologetically progressive publications with an emancipatory agenda. Understanding the role and place of radical journalism becomes even more urgent given the current political climate in a (post) pandemic world with heightened inequalities and intensified pauperisation. Drawing on contributions from leading academics this collection considers: • How new outlets fit in the genealogy of (radical) journalism and what their flourishing can tell us about the present and future of emancipatory politics and the role of the radical journalist; • What these new forms and publications mean for mainstream journalism and its persisting problems of financial sustainability and professional journalistic labour; • Important challenges presented by for example the resurgence of fascism authoritarianism and the mainstreaming of the far right; • Essential questions of what radical journalism looks like today what forms it takes or should take and what its future might be. Radical Journalism is recommended reading for advanced students and journalists working at the intersection of journalism politics and sociology. | Radical Journalism Resurgence Reform Reaction

GBP 34.99
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China's Exchange Rate Regime

China's Exchange Rate Regime

The imbalance between China’s currency the RMB and those of other countries is widely regarded as a major problem for the world economy. There was a reform of China’s exchange rate mechanism in 2005 following which the RMB appreciated 17% against the US dollar but many people argue that further reform is still needed. This book reports on a major research project undertaken following the 2005 reform to assess the impact on China’s economy. It considers the impact in a number of areas of the economy including export-oriented companies the banking industry international trade international capital flows and China’s macroeconomic policy. It concludes that the policies pursued so far have been correct and that further reform both to the exchange rate and to the system overall would be desirable but that any reform should be gradual and incremental preserving economic stability and integrating changes with reform in other parts of the economy. | China's Exchange Rate Regime

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The Political Economy Of China's Financial Reforms Finance In Late Development

The Political Economy Of China's Financial Reforms Finance In Late Development

THIS PATHBREAKING Work analyzes the evolution of China's financial reforms since 1979. China's reformers have stressed the construction of a more diverse flexible and competitive financial system as a crucial element of China's economic reform program. The authors assess the theory and practice of financial reform in light of China's specific characteristics as a large developing country that still claims to be pursuing the goal of establishing a new form of socialist market economy. The authors utilize two approaches. First they place the overall design and trajectory of. financial reform since 1979 within a broad comparative framework of alternative strategies of financial reform and financial systems. Second they use a political economy perspective to explore the complex interactions among the political and economic actors— individual group or institutional—that affect reform outcomes. Integrating these two approaches the authors conclude by assessing future directions for feasible and desirable financial reform in China. | The Political Economy Of China's Financial Reforms Finance In Late Development

GBP 39.99
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Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America Social Movements State Allies and Institutions

Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America Social Movements State Allies and Institutions

Although they share similar socio-economic and cultural characteristics as well as their recent political histories Argentina Chile and Uruguay differ radically in their abortion policies. In this book Cora Fernández Anderson examines the role social movements play in abortion reform to show how different interaction patterns with state actors have led to three different policy outcomes: comprehensive abortion reform in Uruguay; moderate abortion reform in Chile; and no legal abortion reform in Argentina. Synthesizing a broad range of literature and drawing on in-depth field and archival research she analyzes the strength of the campaigns for abortion reform their relationships with leftist parties in power and the context of Church–state relations to explain this diverging trajectory in policy reform. A masterly analysis of how social movements the power of institutions and Executive preferences have strong explanatory power Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America is a perfect supplement for classes on gender and global politics. | Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America Social Movements State Allies and Institutions

GBP 36.99
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China’s Economic Reform Experience and Implications

China’s Economic Reform Experience and Implications

China’s growth miracle over the past 30 years has propelled it to become the world’s second largest economy and potentially the largest in the following years. This book examines China’s experience on economic reform trying to find the reasons for the sustainable and rapid development and provide insights into the study of economic theories. From the perspective of political economics this book elaborates on China’s socialist market economy which was officially confirmed as the goal of the country’s economic reform in 1992. It expounds on China’s economic model the relationship between socialism and market economy as well as the establishment and improvement of socialist market economy in China deepening the studies in the laws governing China’s economic development. Then it explores the gradual reform the reform of state-owned enterprises and the relationship between governments and market all of which are crucial to the success of China’s economic reform. Finally based on the analysis above this book discusses the reasons for the constant and rapid development of China’s economy. With detailed analysis on the reform experience and theoretical implications this book will appeal to scholars and students studying China’s economy and contribute to the development of economic theories. | China’s Economic Reform Experience and Implications

GBP 38.99
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Administrative Reform and National Economic Development

Administrative Reform and National Economic Development

This was first published in 2000: Economic development has become one of the popular public policies in many developing and economic-transforming countries for the past few decades. Public policy makers and researchers have recognized that an effective administrative system is critical to the success of economic development and administrative reform is necessary to promote economic development. This book studies economic development policy by focusing on the relationship between administrative reform and economic development. | Administrative Reform and National Economic Development

GBP 82.99
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Administrative Reform and National Economic Development

Administrative Reform and National Economic Development

This title was first published in 2000: Economic development has become one of the popular public policies in many developing and economic-transforming countries for the past few decades. Public policy makers and researchers have recognized that an effective administrative system is critical to the success of economic development and administrative reform is necessary to promote economic development. This book studies economic development policy by focusing on the relationship between administrative reform and economic development. | Administrative Reform and National Economic Development

GBP 21.99
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