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Responding to recent articles in Governance highlighting the need for improved measurement of bureaucratic characteristics, this article describes efforts to map Brazil's federal agencies on three dimensions—capacity, autonomy, and partisan dominance—derived from data on more than 326,000 civil servants. The article provides a "proof of concept" about the utility of agency‐level measures of these variables, demonstrating how they relate to an output common to all agencies: corruption. The article provides a first step in the direction of building a comparative research program that offers objective evaluation of bureaucracies within nation‐states, with the intent of better disentangling their impact on governance outcomes.

The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement by Mexico, Canada, and the US reinforced the accelerated process by which Mexico's economy was becoming integrated into the world economy, and especially into the US. Within this context, the Trinational Coalition to Defend Public Education was organized by unions in the educational sector in Mexico, Canada, and the US. Describes the process by which this trinational effort was organized and the obstacles it faces. (Original abstract - amended)

PEACE STUDIES COURSES SHOULD INCREASE STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF FACTS, BUT FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH. IT IS ESSENTIAL TO PROMOTE ATTITUDE CHANGE, MORAL DEVELOPMENT, AND A HUMANIST PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE THAT EMPHASIZES VALUES AS WELL AS FACTS. EVERY PEACE STUDIES COURSE SHOULD BE EVALUATED AT INTERVALS, AND THE RESULTS OF THESE EVALUATIONS SHOULD BE INCORPORATED INTO SUCCESSIVE COURSES.

This article expounds and assesses the key contentions of Man, the State, and War. It notes that the book contains meta-theoretical and theoretical components. Through a close re-examination of the text, the article shows how Waltz arrives at his third-image conclusion, reveals a number of errors of a conceptual or logical nature in the meta-theoretical moves that lead him to this conclusion, and explains how such errors are partly rooted in a deeper issue that the book addresses — how to integrate the three images (or three contending estimates of the major cause of war) into one overarching image of world politics based on the agent/structure dichotomy and the distinction between macro and micro enquiries. The article goes on to outline Waltz's substantive theory of international politics, found in an embryonic form in Man, the State, and War, speculates on the sources of the book's success, and assesses its main significance.

There is a growing Co-operative Education sector in England with in the region of 300 schools now describing themselves as Co-operative Schools. The growth of this sector is subject to significant debate – is it a countervailing movement for local democracy or is it simply another chain of schools that will hasten the marketisation of education? This article draws on the relatively limited extant literature on the history of co-operative education since the 1850s to understand the key traditions of 'Co-operative Education'. Then, drawing upon an analysis of Co-operative Schools' websites and meetings, upon interviews with Co-operative College officers, and upon visits and interviews with teachers in two Co-operative Schools, it explores how these traditions are being taken up or resisted in Co-operative Schools in England. The article argues that there is a risk that the autonomy that is at the heart of the Co-operative movement may lay the growing Co-operative Schools sector open to co-option within existing neo-liberal education agendas. The article argues that an important bulwark against this would be for the Co-operative movement to focus its energies in particular on the development of a movement of Co-operative educators, the teachers, parents, students and governors who, through what Woodin calls a 'learnt associational identity', can resist the reduction of education to a marketised private good. This analysis has implications not only within the context of England, but more widely in the international struggle to develop new models of democratic accountability for education in an increasingly marketised environment, and for the potential role of the international co-operative movement within that global struggle.

This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology.

This study was carried out to assess principals' perception of inhibitors of administration of quality secondary education among public secondary schools in Biase Local Government Area in Cross River State, Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted to carry out the study. All the thirty-eight 38 principals and Vice principals of public secondary schools constituted the population and sample of the study using the census approach. An instrument titled: Principals' Perception of the Inhibitors of Administration of Quality Secondary Education Questionnaire (PPIAQSEQ) was developed by the researcher. The face validity of the instrument was established by three experts in Educational Management and Measurement and Evaluation all in the University of Calabar, using Cronbach's alpha reliability, the instrument obtained an alpha coefficient of .81. Data was collected and analyzed through simple percentages. The findings of the study revealed that averagely over 70 % of the respondents either agree or strongly agree that quality of teachers, teachers' salary, promotion pattern, availability of teachers, teacher welfare, industrial action, lack of instructional materials, delayed salary, teacher attrition, lack of libraries, lack of monthly impress, laboratories, textbooks, and lack of desk strongly inhibited administration of quality secondary education in Biase LGA of Cross River State, Nigeria. It was concluded that addressing the problem of funding will address if not completely a reasonable portion of the quality problems faced by the secondary education subsector. Consequently, it was recommended Government should ensure adequate budgetary allocation to education in line with UNESCO's benchmark of 26% of total annual budgetary allocation to education for developing nations.