Nigerian Educational Policy
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 47, Heft 186, S. 52-54
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 47, Heft 186, S. 52-54
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: International Library of Policy Analysis
Policy analysis in Brazil is the first book to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. It brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity and offers key insights into the practice of this field
The increasing distrust of vaguely expressed political and social ideals that is perhaps best symbolized by the title of Daniel Bell's The End of Ideology has made it increasingly difficult to relate educational problems to societal problems with any degree of logical or scientific warrant. But is this distrust of political and social philosophy, this distrust of ideology, merely another ideological proclamation? What accounts for our hesitancy to venture into thinking about the educational development of persons who are capable of alleviating or resolving contemporary societal difficulties? Is this hesitancy due to the indirect support of education resting upon suppressed premises, i.e., upon an ideology?
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In: Israel studies review, Band 32, Heft 2
ISSN: 2159-0389
In: International political science review: IPSR = Revue internationale de science politique : RISP, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 385
ISSN: 0192-5121
Individuals' choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills. We first present a model to show how differences in educational content emerge as an equilibrium outcome of private decisions and government policy choices. We then illustrate these dynamics in two historical circumstances. In medieval Europe, states and the Church found individuals trained in Roman law valuable, and eventually supported investments in this new form of human capital. This had positive effects on Europe's commercial and institutional development. In late 19th-century China, elites were afraid of the introduction of Western science and engineering and continued to select civil servants - who enjoyed substantial rents—based on their knowledge of Confucian classics. As a result, China lacked skills useful in modern industry. Finally, we present a variety of other contemporary and historical applications of this theory.
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In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 359
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: State Government: journal of state affairs, Band 38, S. 34-38
ISSN: 0039-0097
In: Revista direito e política, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 437-462
ISSN: 1980-7791
This article aims to present, from a historical perspective, the main legal instruments on access to land, based on authors who have studied the agrarian issue in Brazil, namely: João Pedro Stédile (2011), José de Souza Martins (1980), Marcia Maria Mendes Motta (1998), Maria Ligia Osório Silva (1996, 1997), Ruy Cirne Lima (1954), among others. It also aims to demonstrate how legislation has advanced in the process of recognizing the socio-environmental function of property while it brought ambiguities that have led to regression in terms of a fairer and more equitable distribution of land, essential to human needs, such as housing and food. The materials used to prepare the article came from primary and secondary sources collected through bibliographic and documentary research.KEYWORDS: property of land, socio-environmental function of property, Brazilian legislation.
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 157-167
ISSN: 1541-0072
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 1, Heft 6, S. 117-118
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Revista de historia económica: RHE = Journal of Iberian and Latin American economic history, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 103-137
ISSN: 2041-3335
The present paper explores the relationship between agrarian structure and human capital formation between and within Brazil's federal units. It is argued that whether states' agriculture is in plantation style, based on cheap coerced labor, or organized around family farming matters for the formulation of educational policies. According to the main claim, landlords were not interested in paying higher taxes to educate the masses and curtailed the expansion of schooling in order to keep a cheap workforce and maintain their monopoly over the decision-making process. Describing several episodes in Brazil's history of public instruction, the paper stresses the distributional conflicts over education as well as the rural aristocracy's resistance towards broadly-targeted, citizenship-enhancing educational policies. The descriptive evidence is complemented by statistical analyses employing historical as well as more recent data. It is shown that states characterized by a more egalitarian land distribution, which are not under the dominance of powerful landlords, exhibit better educational coverage and enhanced instruction quality. They also spend more on schooling.
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In: La revue internationale et stratégique: l'international en débat ; revue trimestrielle publiée par l'Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS), Heft 94, S. 111-120
ISSN: 1287-1672
In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 20, Heft 2, S. 235
ISSN: 0023-8791