This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of new arenas of education governance, examining the impact of international organizations and marketization. It explores how education policy is made at international levels, and the consequences for national policy-making.
This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of new arenas of education governance, examining the impact of international organizations...
This collection examines the transformation of the modern Western state in an age of accelerated globalization. Arguing that the state experienced a 'golden age' in the 1960s and 1970s, the contributors explore how and why this configuration of the state is under pressure in the 21st century.
This collection examines the transformation of the modern Western state in an age of accelerated globalization. Arguing that the state experienced a '...
NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features influence their relationship with the UN. The case studies include some of the most renowned players on the international scene, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Oxfam International.
NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation...
Transformation of Education Policy deals with internalization processes in education policy and their impact on national policy making. It investigates national responses to the PISA study for secondary education and the Bologna study for tertiary education.
Transformation of Education Policy deals with internalization processes in education policy and their impact on national policy making. It investigate...
This book is devoted to the analysis of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its role in international and national policy making. On its 50th anniversary, the OECD enjoys widely acknowledged international standing. Despite this, it has so far remained a rarely researched and analyzed organization. Mechanisms of OECD Governance is thus a pioneering work: it fills a long-overdue gap in presenting a theoretically guided and empirically rich analysis of the OECD as a political actor, and explores its role in political processes through various case studies in a...
This book is devoted to the analysis of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its role in international and national p...
Nichtregierungsorganisationen sind in den vergangenen Jahren zu wichtigen Akteuren in der nationalen und internationalen Politik geworden. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, das Thema NGO in ko- rimierter Form greifbar zu machen. Es richtet sich daher vor allem an Studierende, die sich in den ersten Semestern ihres sozial-, geistes- oder rechtswissenschaftlichen Studiums befinden, aber auch an ein interessiertes Publikum, das sich uber wesentliche Grundlagen zu NGOs informieren mochte. Dieses Buch stellt ein Gemeinschaftsprodukt aus zwei F- schungsprojekten zu NGOs an der Universitat Munster (Frantz)...
Nichtregierungsorganisationen sind in den vergangenen Jahren zu wichtigen Akteuren in der nationalen und internationalen Politik geworden. Ziel dieses...
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety of political science perspectives: comparative politics, public policy analysis and public administration, international relations, and political theory. By applying a governance perspective on education policy, the authors explore the changing institutional settings, new actors' constellations,...
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's ...
This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking processes. By comparing educational outcomes and actors' reactions in different countries, it provides detailed insights into a highly contested policy field.
This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking process...
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance seeks to advance our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of global social governance on actors, their relations to each other, and their pathways as well as their footprints of influence in the specific policy fields of social concern in which they are active. Focusing on a broad array of individual and corporate global social policy actors, ranging from internationally operating intergovernmental organizations to state formations and NGOs, the contributions to this volume draw a fuller picture of...
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance seeks to advance our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of gl...