138 Citations
Cultural competence in evaluation: An overview
- 2004
Education, Sociology
This chapter is an overview of the understanding of cultural competence and context in evaluation, highlighting how other disciplines have addressed the importance of culture and suggesting the…
The influence of family background on educational expectations: a comparative study
- 2020
Sociology, Education
Abstract It has been well documented that East Asian students in primary and secondary education academically outperform their Western counterparts. One prominent explanation points to the role of…
Continental selections? Institutional actors and market mechanisms in post-16 education in England
- 2019
Education, Political Science
ABSTRACT Recent policies for English technical and vocational education and training (TVET), centred on apprenticeship reforms and the Sainsbury Review, have prioritised employer-led curricula and…
Through the policy mist: The impact of institutional and temporal policy flexibility on local renewable energy policy uncertainty in China
- 2025
Political Science, Environmental Science
Lead, link, or leverage? An integrative framework to assess different government roles in collaborative governance processes across political systems
- 2025
Political Science
Collaborative governance is an emerging phenomenon through which governments nowadays are seeking to address today's societal challenges. Oftentimes, this requires governments to assume different…
How Can States Regulate De-Spatialized Phenomena? The Case of Occupational Licensing
- 2025
Law, Political Science
The Covid-19 pandemic compelled U.S. states to forge their own paths to guide their citizens through new dangers and challenges, yet made clear that state borders cannot hold against pathogens,…
Talent development as a sustainable practice for employee engagement: A Delphi study
- 2024
Education, Business
Purpose: The study attempts to explore the relationship between talent development (TD) and employee engagement (EE). The purpose is to identify those talent development affecting factors that act as…
Green Monetary Policy Measures and Central Bank Mandates: A Comparative Political Economy Analysis
- 2024
Economics, Environmental Science
Climate change and the political pressure for urgent policy responses have stirred an intense debate as to whether central banks should adjust their monetary policy frameworks in support of the…
The 1862 companies act, the origins of the Anthropocene boundary-getting the genie back in the bottle
- 2024
History, Environmental Science
Since the turn of the century, there has been a developing conversation on where the start boundary of the Anthropocene should be situated in time. The article argues that these discussions have…
Multilevel Regime Decoupling: The Territorial Dimension of Autocratization and Contemporary Regime Change
- 2024
Political Science
Regimes do not change consistently across territorial levels. There has been progress in understanding national democratic erosions and subnational regimes, but barring a few exceptions, these…
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Economic performance
- 1990
Economics
Examines the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic…