This paper analyzes the importance of governance of international organizations (IOs) to Swiss policy making in the field of education. The focus is on the Bologna Process driven by the European Commission, and the 'Programme for International Student Assessment' (PISA) of the Organization for...

This paper analyzes the importance of governance of international organizations (IOs) to Swiss policy making in the field of education. The focus is on the Bologna Process driven by the European Commission, and the 'Programme for International Student Assessment' (PISA) of the Organization for...

This dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone pieces of research, written during my time at the University of Konstanz between October 2003 and October 2006. It is based on the fundamental insight that considering individual heterogeneity in theoretical and empirical analyzes can...

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an internationally standardized assessment to 15-year-old pupils in schools. With the same purpose, the questionnaire made by Dr. Duller (Austria) was conducted at the university Humboldt, Berlin. We would like to assess how good...