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作者：Ugur, Mehmet; Yankaya, Dilek
作者单位：University of Greenwich
摘要：This article examines the relationship between European Union (EU) conditionality for membership and policy entrepreneurship in a candidate country. In Turkey, EU conditionality opened a window of opportunity for policy reform by lowering the political costs of controversial reforms. The study demonstrates that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) responded to a window of opportunity by advocating a series of reforms tha...
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作者：Menahem, Gila
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：This article examines the transformation of Israel's higher education system since the 1990s. During that period, the system underwent expansion, diversification, privatization, and internationalization in a series of path-breaking reforms. The main argument is that while external factors-such as demograpic trends-exerted pressure for change, the trajectory and policy options preferred were shaped by ideational factors. Policy entrepreneurs played a crucial role in advancing pathbreaking insti...
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作者：Araral, Eduardo, Jr.
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：Public sector monopolies are often associated with inefficiencics and inability to meet rising demand. Scholars attribute this to fundamental problems associated with public provision: (1) a tradition of below-cost pricing due to populist pressures, (2) owner-regulator conflicts of interest, and (3) perverse organizational incentives arising from non-credible threat of bankruptcy, weak competition, rigidities, and agency and performance measurement problems. Many governments worldwide have shi...
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作者：Goyer, Michael
作者单位：University of Warwick
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作者：Klitgaard, Michael Baggesen
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：School vouchers might seem a natural feature of the liberal welfare model of the U.S. and American society generally. However, for social democratic welfare states in Scandinavia, school vouchers would seem to be a contradiction. Nevertheless, school vouchers have faced severe resistance in the USA, and the program has so far not been adopted as a national educational reform, although sporadic and limited state-level developments can be observed. In sweden, however, the social democratic welfa...
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作者：McConnell, Allan
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：The aim of this article is to understand why, in the aftermath of the 1998 Sydney water contamination crisis, policy and institutional reform was comparatively minor-despite intense scrutiny and criticism of the frame-work of water policy in New South Wales (NSW). The article should be of serious interest to scholars interested in crisis and policy change, rather than simply those with a particular interest in water policy in Australia. It frames the Sydney case as a disconfirming one but find...
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作者：Mikler, John
作者单位：University of Sydney
