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THE DAY BEFORE REFORM: CAUSES OF STATE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM 1970-2005
State legislative campaign finance reform varies considerably among states and over time. Over the past 35 years states have adopted increasingly stronger reform policies; however, many disparities between states still exist. Current state legislative campaign finance laws range from disclosure …
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The reality of reform : teachers reflecting on curriculum reform in Western Australia
… their prior experiences of mandatory curriculum reform as they begin engaging with this unique reform. To provide a means of exploring these perceptions and experiences, 18 teachers, four Head of Learning Areas (HOLAs) and the principal from a regional high school in Western Australia (WA) were …
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The Challenges of China's Economic Reform: State Enterprise Reform and Financial Liberalization
… thesis examines China's state-owned enterprise reform and financial reform in the last two decades. I characterize the progress of China's state-owned enterprises reform in two areas: privatization of small SOEs and mass layoffs. I argue that privatization rests on the political economy of …
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Reform school reform : the nature of change in a social policy biography
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Democratization and police reform
This paper compares police reforms during democratization in Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It analyses the changes to the structure of the democratic control of the police in each reform, paying special attention to the decentralization versus centralization aspect of it. The research …
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Individualism in education reform
<p>Current education reform in the U.S. is based upon a business model with capitalist market principles. High stakes standardized testing is a tool that the business model reformers use to dismantle democracy while creating an environment where a democratic society will not thrive. One of the …
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Judicial reform in Ethiopia
The main theme of this thesis is judicial reform program in Ethiopia. It examines the three basic issues which are central to the administration of justice in Ethiopia, namely efficieny, access to justice as well as accountability and independence. In spite of the wider scope of the reform efforts …
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Evaluating Uganda's public service reform program : rightsizing, pay reform and results oriented management
Includes bibliographical references.
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Social Security reform in Spain
… do not resolve the issue. Without significant reforms, the system will be faced with a reduction in benefits and/or an increase in the payroll-tax by the second quarter of this century. The model is further used to test the effectiveness of potential reforms. We conclude that a permanent …
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Open economy, reform, and learning
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Social studies reform in Illinois: Teachers' perceptions of the Illinois educational reform package of 1985
… teachers in Illinois view the 1985 state school reform package as it relates to social studies in Illinois?"" Findings were generated through the use of interviews and surveys and analyzed through the use of Pattern-Matching. Included in the report are the following findings: (1) Through 1990 the …
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Institutional Constraints and Bolivian Agrarian Development During the Pre-Agrarian Reform and Post-Agrarian Reform Periods
… land redistribution according to the agrarian reform law shows that the insecurity and restrictive nature of land tenure defined in the agrarian reform law led to reduced capital investments, extensive land use and poverty. Less restrictive property rights may be the solution to economic …
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An application of a model of public management reform to tax administration reform in South Africa
… study tax administration or tax administration reform from a public administration perspective. This dissertation attempts to do precisely that. It seeks to answer the following linked research questions. Firstly, which forces led to the establishment of SARS? Secondly, with respect to the …
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NATO's Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan
… and investigate whether NATO’s Security Sector Reform (SSR) approach in Afghanistan was a mixed record of success and failure between 2003 and 2014. In terms of NATO’s SSR approach in Afghanistan, what worked, what did not work, and why did certain aspects of SSR fail? The analysis sheds light …
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