Scholars of modern Japan agree that education played a crucial role in that country's rapid modernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With few exceptions, however, Western approaches to the subject treat education as an instrument of change controlled by the Meiji polit…
Governments across the world are pursuing reform in an effort to improve public services. But has this led to improvements in services? This volume develops a framework for a theory-based evaluation of reforms, and assesses the impact of new arrangements for public service deliv…
"A workshop hosted by the World Bank and the IMF in September 2001 provided a forum for those organizations to review the effectiveness of Bank-Fund advice and programs on civil service reform - and to propose ways to improve joint effects in coming years. Workshop participants …
In September 2001, staff from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met with the objective of strengthening collaboration between the two organizations in projects of civil service reform. To guide the collaboration, six foundations were identified, and are discusse…
"One of the most important results of the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had kept the common people of the countryside subject to the lords. In this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and re…
"One of the most important results of the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had kept the common people of the countryside subject to the lords. In this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and re…
This revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges confronting the political system as well as the international politics of the European Union. It draws from a spectrum of regional integration theories to determine what the Union actually is and how it is de…
"The English Constitution addresses two contemporary and complementary question; one regarding the so-called English 'question', the changing identities of England and English-ness, and a second regarding the changing shape of the Anglo-British constitution." "It is intended tha…