1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962399003321

Titolo

Who governs Southern Europe? : regime change and ministerial recruitment, 1850-2000 / / editors, Pedro Tavares de Almeida, Antonio Costa Pinto, Nancy Bermeo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, OR, : F. Cass, c2003

ISBN

1-135-76322-4

1-135-76323-2

0-7146-5335-7

1-280-05416-6

0-203-49966-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlmeidaPedro Tavares de

PintoAntonio Costa

BermeoNancy Gina <1951->

Disciplina

352.293094

Soggetti

Elite (Social sciences)

Power (Social sciences)

Europe, Southern Politics and government

Spain Politics and government

Portugal Politics and government

Italy Politics and government

Greece Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Portuguese Ministers, 1851  1999:  Social Background and Paths to Power; Ministers and Regimes in Spain:  From the First to the Second Restoration,  1874  2002; Ministers in Italy: Notables, Party Men,  Technocrats and Media Men; Ministerial Elites in Greece, 1843  2001: A Synthesis of Old Sources and New  Data; Ministerial Elites in Southern Europe: Continuities, Changes and Comparisons; Abstracts; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In modern politics, cabinet ministers are major actors in the arena of power as they occupy a strategic locus of command from which vital,



authoritative decisions flow continuously. Who are these uppermost policy-makers? What are their background characteristics and credentials? How are they selected and which career paths do they travel in their ascent to power? This set of research issues has guided this collection, a comprehensive, empirical account of the composition and patterns of recruitment of ministerial elites in Southern Europe throughout the last 150 years, thus encompassing different historical circumstances and political settings - liberal, authoritarian and democratic. With original, comparative data from the 19th century to the present, it provides valuable material for debates about how regime change and economic development affect who governs. First published in 2003 by Frank Cass / Reprinted in 2012 by Routledge.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953152303321

Titolo

Higher education in contemporary China : beyond the expansion / / edited by W. John Morgan and Bin Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, c2011

ISBN

1-136-81193-1

0-8153-5484-3

1-283-10398-2

9786613103987

1-136-81194-X

0-203-82895-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

China policy series

Altri autori (Persone)

MorganW. John

WuBin

Disciplina

378.51/09051

Soggetti

Education, Higher - China

Educational change - China

Educational innovations - China

Education and state - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Higher Education Reform in China Beyond the expansion; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acronyms; Editors and contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Widening the provision of higher education; 1: The regional division of the higher education sector in China: a spatial analysis; 2: Adult higher education in China: problems and potential; 3: The role of distance education in higher education in contemporary China; 4: Private higher education in China: problems and possibilities; Part II: Expansion and its consequences

5: Thirty years of reforming China's higher education funding mechanism6: The labour market for graduates in China; 7: The occupational orientation of doctoral graduates in China; Part III: A growing global perspective; 8: Higher education and Chinese teachers: professional education in the context of China's curriculum reform; 9: Education reform in Hong Kong: implications for higher education and lifelong learning; 10: Brain power stored overseas? An Australian case study of the Chinese knowledge diaspora; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade - China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a development strategy on such a scale, aiming to improve the quality of its graduates, and make HE available to as many of its citizens as possible. This book provides a critical examination the challenges to the development and sustainability of hig