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This book deals with the critical empirical void created by the speed at which healthcare restructuring has taken place in Europe. Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt to balance the financial viability of public health structures, with democratic imperatives to maintain socially just outcomes. The authors of this volume consider how governments have therefore shifted identities from principal care providers to contractual monitors, setting targets increasingly directed toward third-party managers in quasi-markets and the private sector. Drawing upon extensive data from Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, and Israel, the contributions explore the often unexpected policy outputs and outcomes engendered by such reforms.
Political science. --- Public policy. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Public Policy. --- Health care reform --- Health care reform. --- Europe. --- Health reform --- Health system reform --- Healthcare reform --- Medical care reform --- Reform of health care delivery --- Reform of medical care delivery --- Council of Europe countries --- Medical policy --- Health insurance --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Northern Europe --- Southern Europe --- Western Europe
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Public welfare administration --- Welfare state --- Democracy --- #SBIB:35H200 --- #SBIB:35H437 --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Public welfare --- Economic aspects --- Overheidsmanagement: algemene werken --- Beleidssectoren: sociale zekerheid --- Administration --- Europe --- Social policy. --- Sociology of social welfare --- Social policy --- Public administration --- European Union
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This book examines remedies for improving public trust and the legitimacy of science. It reviews policy approaches adopted by governments to incentivise the empowerment of stakeholders, offering an original analysis of the political roots of the impact and public engagement agenda and shedding light on the wider connections to democracy.
Democracy and science. --- Science and state. --- Science --- Science policy --- State and science --- State, The --- Science and democracy --- Government policy
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This book deals with the critical empirical void created by the speed at which healthcare restructuring has taken place in Europe. Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt to balance the financial viability of public health structures, with democratic imperatives to maintain socially just outcomes. The authors of this volume consider how governments have therefore shifted identities from principal care providers to contractual monitors, setting targets increasingly directed toward third-party managers in quasi-markets and the private sector. Drawing upon extensive data from Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, and Israel, the contributions explore the often unexpected policy outputs and outcomes engendered by such reforms.
International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- politieke wetenschappen --- politiek --- intensieve zorgen
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Despite the fact that universities are at the centre of knowledge creation and development, which itself is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth, public funding of higher education in most countries is not increasing or at least not increasing enough in real terms. This volume explores new funding schemes and incentives introduced in many European higher education systems, including competitive funding schemes for research under the name of excellence policies.
Universities and colleges --- Education, Higher --- Finance --- Finance
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In January 2015, three attackers walked into the office of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, opened fire and killed twelve people, including a Muslim policeman, in the deadliest terrorist attack on France for 50 years. We live in a time of suspicion and fear, not least because religion has returned to the centre stage of collective memories in Europe and in the United States. Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe? Paola Mattei and Andrew Aguilar show that French society is divided along conflicts about religious identity, increasingly visible in public schools. Republicanism, based on the solidarity and secularism, is viewed by many as the cause of discrimination and unfairness against minority groups. Policies invoking laïcité are frequently criticised as a disguised form of Islamophobia. Secular Institutions, Islam, and Education Policy suggests, on the contrary, that secularism in France is a flexible concept, translated into contradictory policy programmes, and subject to varying political interpretations. This book presents original data showing how schools have become, once again, a central theatre of political action and public engagement regarding laicité, an ideal grounded in the republican origins of the public education system in France.
Religion in the public schools --- Education and state --- Islam and secularism --- Secularism and Islam --- Bible in the schools --- Secularism --- Church and education --- Church and state --- Public schools --- Religious education --- Religious education of children --- Education and state. --- Religion and sociology. --- Religion and education. --- Islam. --- Education Policy. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Religion and Society. --- Religion and Education. --- Sociology of Education. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Government policy --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Church and education. --- Educational sociology. --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Education and church --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Aims and objectives --- History
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Despite the fact that universities are at the centre of knowledge creation and development, which itself is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth, public funding of higher education in most countries is not increasing or at least not increasing enough in real terms. This volume explores new funding schemes and incentives introduced in many European higher education systems, including competitive funding schemes for research under the name of excellence policies.
Universities and colleges --- Education, Higher --- Universités --- Enseignement supérieur --- Finance --- Finance. --- Finances
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In January 2015, three attackers walked into the office of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, opened fire and killed twelve people, including a Muslim policeman, in the deadliest terrorist attack on France for 50 years. We live in a time of suspicion and fear, not least because religion has returned to the centre stage of collective memories in Europe and in the United States. Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe? Paola Mattei and Andrew Aguilar show that French society is divided along conflicts about religious identity, increasingly visible in public schools. Republicanism, based on the solidarity and secularism, is viewed by many as the cause of discrimination and unfairness against minority groups. Policies invoking laïcité are frequently criticised as a disguised form of Islamophobia. Secular Institutions, Islam, and Education Policy suggests, on the contrary, that secularism in France is a flexible concept, translated into contradictory policy programmes, and subject to varying political interpretations. This book presents original data showing how schools have become, once again, a central theatre of political action and public engagement regarding laicité, an ideal grounded in the republican origins of the public education system in France.
Religious studies --- Christian theology --- Islam --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of education --- Sociology --- Teaching --- Didactics of religion --- Educational sciences --- vergelijkende pedagogiek --- sociologie --- onderwijs --- sociale wetenschappen --- godsdienst --- onderwijssociologie --- opvoeding --- katholieke kerk --- onderwijsonderzoek --- United States of America
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"The categories commonly mobilized to think about education have long been associated with the notion of the nation state, and functioned as obstacles, rather than resources, for our understanding of how globalization plays out in this particular field. In the last two decades, both social theory and comparative politics have attempted to overcome these limitations in their own way. Social theory increasingly acknowledged education as a global phenomenon. Theories have been developed to describe a global society evolving across borders. They show how, through processes that remain debated (cultural isomorphism, capitalism, functional differentiation), a number of structural and semantic evolutions have spread across education systems. Part I of this Handbook is dedicated to presenting, discussing, and comparing three such theories of globalization and their implications for our understanding of education and education policy. Comparative politics has for its part concerned itself with developing a more complex, less unified and 'transformationalist' view of the State by acknowledging the fragmentation and distribution of its functions among distinct domains and levels. Part II gravitates around this global constellation, with chapters focusing on global reforms, norms and ideas put forward by supranational organizations, on international accountability processes and on the ways in which nation states or local actors adopt, implement or resist global ideas and reforms. The two Parts reflect these disciplinary approaches to the relation between globalization and education. Together, these two approaches seek to provide a comprehensive overview of how globalization and education interact to result in distinct and varying outcomes across world regions"--
Education and globalization --- Education and state --- Education
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