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Author : Ian Bunting
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : 9781920489557
Author : Judith G. Kelley,Beth A. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487207
Shows how global ratings and rankings shape political agendas and influence states' behavior, reframing how we think about power.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264056299
This report examines both the challenges and the opportunities associated with designing and using indicator systems in the context of multi-level governance.
Author : Jan Botha,Nicole J Muller
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781928357179
The book provides a thorough overview of Institutional Research (IR) ? i.e. applied higher education research undertaken within universities ? in South Africa. It is a collection of essays focusing on the character and institutional setting of IR; how IR is embedded into the mechanisms of steering, shaping and reforming higher education; and what the major results were of IR in select thematic areas. The book is a valuable resource for higher education researchers and social researchers in South Africa interested in higher education. It ÿalso deserves to be read by practitioners and policymakers in the field of higher education in South Africa. It serves as an interesting case study for higher education researchers all over the world.
Author : Johan Muller,Nico Cloete
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781920677930
Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the universitys function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers. Includes two previously unpublished public lectures and an Afterword by Manuel Castells.
Author : Roland Eisen,Frank A. Sloan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461540960
Ensuring long-term care (LTC) is one of the most urgent problems in health care today. Demographic trends are expected to lead to a higher proportion of old and very old people in the global population. As a result, an increased proportion of global income will be devoted to LTC services. With this in mind, Long-term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions aims to address the following important objectives: to provide a detailed analysis of the arrangements and institutions designed to protect the disabled and dependent elderly people in various countries, and to try to evaluate their respective merits. to discuss the projections of future costs of protection for dependent elderly, and to assess the impact of improvements in disability-free life expectancy on the future cost of care and choices between informal and formal care. to present empirical research on these decisions, with special consideration of primary caregivers, and on the substitution between in kind and cash benefits as well as between institutional (or formal) care and home (or informal) care. to analyze different theoretical approaches in modeling decisions referring to LTC services to be provided both within and between generations. With its mix of empirical, theoretical and policy-related contributions, Long-term Care: Economic Issues and Policy Solutions will be of interest not only to health economists, but also to social scientists, health insurers, and public policy advocates.
Author : Trotter, Henry,Kell, Catherine
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781920677510
African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars' work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.
Author : Jaap Woldendorp
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Corporate state
ISBN : 9789036193429
Determines wether or not the relevant socio-economic actors pursued a neo-corporatist strategy with regard to the formation and implementation of social and economic policy (incomes policy) and analyses if their strategies are successful.
Author : Lyle Scruggs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521016924
The ultimate goal of environmental policy is reducing pollution. Attention to environmental problems in the social sciences has brought some bold generalizations about causes of good results, but almost no systematic cross-national studies that flesh out major theoretical arguments and test those claims with data. This study makes a seminal contribution to that effort in two ways. First, by taking environmental outcomes over the last thirty years as the central dependent variable, it provides a basis for evaluating national performance in reducing environmental problems. Second, by developing a data set including performance in a number of countries and elaborating on major explanations of environmental performance found in the literature, this study provides the most rigorous available analysis of the determinants of environmental performance. In so doing, it challenges what is probably the conventional wisdom in the social sciences.
Author : Nils Eikelmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783658314293
Nils Eikelmann describes the framework conditions for the application of value-based performance measures and critically analyses selected ones. The disclosure of value-based performance indicators is important in order to demonstrate the successful management of a company and to satisfy the increasing information needs of investors. However, companies adapt the developed theoretical concepts of value-based performance measures to their practical needs and thus investors are no longer able to compare the performance of companies. In addition, there is a variety of different metrics from which companies can choose. The empirical study aims to reduce existing research gaps and is divided into three parts: the analysis of annual reports of selected European companies, the calculation of a standardised value-based performance measure and a value relevance study in the form of an association study.
Author : Russell J. Dalton,Christopher J. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199599233
How do institutions and electoral systems matter for citizens' electoral choices? This is the first systematic study that attempts to answer this question for contemporary democracies. The book assembles leading electoral researchers to examine citizen choice in over 30 democracies surveyed by the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.
Author : Christopher Hood,Ruth Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191070747
The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the working better and costing less dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework.This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government work better and cost less are unlikely to go away.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office,National Academies (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Economic indicators
ISBN : 9781428941403
Author : Nico Cloete,Peter Maassen
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781920677879
The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on world-class universities inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increasingly, East Asia. The rest of the world, including Africa, is left to play catch-up. But that discourse should focus rather on the tensions, even contradictions, between excellence and engagement with which all universities must grapple. Here the African experience has much to offer the high-participation and generously resourced systems of the so-called developed world. This book offers a critical review of that experience, and so makes a major contribution to our understanding of higher education.
Author : Richard Boyle
Publisher : Institute of Public Administration
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1904541240
