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The founder of Edison Schools and Channel One describes the sobering challenges that are preventing a large percentage of today's young people from acquiring a quality public education, in an account that makes recommendations on how to institute effective improvements. Reprint.

The founder of Edison Schools and Channel One describes the sobering challenges that are preventing a large percentage of today's young people from acquiring a quality public education, in an account that makes recommendations on how to institute effective improvements. 35,000 first printing.

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Product Description: This study of how the public sphere is transformed in free market societies includes coverage of: the mass media and the information crisis; European/American concepts of democracy; the end of work; prisons and the public sphere; bodily experience in public space; and the sociology of the street...read more

China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime's imperative to control them politically. Landry explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manages local officials in order to meet these goals and perpetuate an unusually decentralized authoritarian regime. Using unique data collected at the municipal, county, and village level, Landry examines in detail how the promotion mechanisms for local cadres have allowed the CCP to reward officials for the development of their localities without weakening political control. His research shows that the CCP's personnel management system is a key factor in explaining China's enduring authoritarianism and proves convincingly that decentralization and authoritarianism can work hand in hand.

Product Description: This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy--the journal of the David Hume Institute.

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Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Through research in the field of social care in six European Countries (France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and the U.K.) the authors of this volume highlight the role of nonprofit and commercial organizations in the new "welfare mix systems" and main social and institutional effects of such new order...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: During the past decade, thousands of former state-controlled companies in more than 100 different countries have entered the private sector. These firms range in size and commercial significance from small family-owned kiosks in Russia to some of the largest, most influential corporations in Western and Central Europe, Latin America, and Asia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization...read more

Product Description: When the Central and East European Countries (CEECs) began their reforms, many expected enterprises to quickly eliminate the benefits they had previously provided to workers. The papers in this volume explore the evolution of these firm-initiated forms of social protection, examine the tendencies of enterprises to shed some of these responsibilities, and look at the acquisition of new social functions in both newly-privatized and established enterprises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The Evolving Bargain" explores the impact of deregulation and privatization on company strategy in industries worldwide, and shows how these dynamic processes shape the critical evolving relationship, or bargain, between governments and affected enterprises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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