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Transforming education policy in New Zealand : a case study analysis

Dobbins, Michael - 2009

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing face of New Zealand education policy over the past 25 years. It highlights the phase of socio-economic trans-formation in the late 1980s and its far-reaching impact on the education system, before turning to the last two decades, in...

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The governance of overlapping jurisdictions : how international cooperation

Blauberger, Michael - 2009

As a result of international legalization, the potential for conflicts of overlapping jurisdictions has multiplied vertically between national and international law, as well as horizontally between national and foreign law. In competition control, the latter type of horizontal overlap between US...

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Governance by comparison : how ratings & rankings impact national policy-making in education

Martens, Kerstin; Niemann, Dennis - 2010

How can international comparisons have an impact on one country while others are not affected at all? This paper examines the power of ratings & rakings (R&R) using the example of the OECD’s PISA study (Programme for International Student Assessment) and its differential impact on national...

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Strengthening international regulation through transnational new governance : overcoming the orchestration deficit

Abbott, Kenneth W.; Snidal, Duncan - 2010

Governance" (i.e., treaties and intergovernmental organizations) to adequately regulate international business. Nongovernmental … depict the diversity of these new regulatory institutions on the "Governance Triangle," according to the roles of different … actors in their operations. To analyze this complex system, we adapt the domestic "New Governance" model of regulation to the …

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The fiscal anatomy of a regulatory polity : tax policy and multilevel governance in the EU

Genschel, Philipp; Jachtenfuchs, Markus - 2010

The paper analyzes the common assumption that the EU has little power over taxation. We find that the EU’s own taxing power is indeed narrowly circumscribed: its revenues have evolved from rather supranational beginnings in the 1950s towards an increasingly intergovernmental system. Based on a...

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Convergence patterns in accounting regulation : six country cases of the transforming regulatory landscape

Zimmermann, Jochen; Kilian, Jan-Philipp; Schymczyk, Johannes - 2010

This paper inquires into recent changes of accounting regulation in six OECD countries: Germany, France, England, USA, Canada and Japan. Having formerly been embedded into different institutional environments, accounting systems varied widely in the heyday of the interventionist nation state....

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Bordering global mobility - networks in global and regional mobility regulation

Roos, Christof - 2010

The aim of this article is to develop an analytical framework which contributes to the understanding of mobility regulation. While most literature focuses on international efforts to control migration the perspective is widened by looking at mobility, encompassing short-term cross border...

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Comparing governance of international organisations : the EU, the OECD and educational policy

Martens, Kerstin; Balzer, Carolin; Sackmann, Reinhold; … - 2004

qualifications in the near future. The aim of this study is to explore the forms of governance through which international … approaches, an analytic grid will be designed in this study for systematically investigating the forms of governance as exercised … education. -- OECD ; EU ; Educational Policy ; International Organisation ; Governance …

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Transformations of the state?

Zürn, Michael; Leibfried, Stephan; Zangl, Bernhard; … - 2004

The state is one of the major institutions in modern industrial societies which have an enduring influence on societal development. Since the latter part of the 20th century developments have pointed to a far-reaching transformation of the modern nation state in the OECD world (Organisation for...

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Has three decades of comparative public policy scholarship been focusing on the wrong question?

Castles, Francis G. - 2011

The essential argument of this paper is that, despite the work of many pioneering scholars, the original agenda of those who came to comparative public policy with a view to demonstrating that the functioning of democratic politics makes a difference remains substantially unfulfilled. The...

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