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Provides practical and educative accountability policies, looking at processes and criteria that help in the quality of learning, teaching and leadership in educational institutions and systems. This book offers a review of the history of ideas and international policies concerning accountability; policy research methodology; and more.

Reflects the unintended and paradoxical effects of technology developments regarding HTSFs. This work uses explanatory studies, with an objective of understanding the processes that drive HTSF development.

Societal trends have made the need for better travel demand forecasts more urgent, at the same time as making people's travel and activity patterns far more complex. This work is organised into four sections: modelling developments; theories and empirical analyses; data needs and data representation; and policy analysis.

Discusses the analysis, comparison and integration of computational approaches to learning and research on human learning. This book aims to provide the reader with an overview of the prolific research on learning throughout the disciplines. It also highlights the important research issues and methodologies.

Contains essays that address the debate on school choice and vouchers. This book contains three major parts such as: Theory and Practice of Choice in Education; Are Private Schools Superior to Public Schools; and Empirical Studies of School Choice and Vouchers. It also provides opinions on the role of government in education.

Offers a summary of knowledge in the field of special education. This volume covers a wide range of topics from a discussion of early education for disabled children and those at risk, to educational resilience. It also covers such topics as visual, hearing, and language impairments.

Presents an international collection of papers on methodological and substantive findings from the analysis of personal travel written by travel behaviour researchers from the social and engineering sciences. This book is organised in 4 sections: traveller activity; stated preference methods; dynamic behaviour; and improvement of travel models.

Focuses on the lessons of experience with reform and innovation in higher education that are most relevant to the challenges of developing countries. This work analyzes experience and issues in four priority areas and concludes with a case study of the effects of the implementation of a comprehensive reform in Chile.

The problem of the Terror lies at the heart of any reflection upon the French Revolution and its implications for modern political culture. This volume brings together a wide range of historiographical approaches to the French Revolution. It offers an explanation of the nature and implications of the political culture of the French Revolution.

Throughout the last decade there has been an unprecedented amount of activity in curriculum policy, and recent years have seen the acceleration of that activity following the Education Reform Act of 1988. This reader is a selection of work which addresses some of the more complex ideas and debates surrounding curriculum policy. The book is divided into three parts, the first section describes the background to recent curriculum policy, the second section looks at a variety of ways of constructing the curriculum, all of which have an impact on policy, while the third section offers a series of critiques on current policy, in particular the immediate impact of the ERA and of vocationalism, of market forces and strong central control.

Provides a collection of papers, analyzing and assessing the role and value of strategic moves and groups in industry. This book contains theoretical models which are supplemented by empirical studies on the dynamics of competitive moves and the link between strategic groups and performance. It links commentaries and extensive reviews of research.

There is abundant evidence of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism by academics from the English-speaking world. This title familiarises readers in the US, UK, Australia and the English speaking regions of Africa and Asia with such evolutionary thinking.

Focuses on processes related to recovery and unwinding from job stress. This book demonstrates that recovery research is a very promising approach for understanding the processes of job stress and relieve from job stress more fully.

Focuses on corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps corporations and other organizations effectively manage, administer, and direct economic resources. This book focuses on: the impact of deregulation and corporate structure on productive efficiency; and the effectiveness of the fraud triangle and SAS.

Offers an outlet for the discussion of multi-level problems and solutions across a variety of fields of study. This title contains five major essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of organizational behavior and leadership.

Presents a series of perspectives that evaluate the merits of and potential for establishing institutionalized social valuation protocols within university settings. This title offers a comprehensive overview of the literature that addresses issues related to assessing the social value of university innovations.

Focuses on the contribution by Don Lamberton. This volume explores the struggle for recognition of a way of thinking which is fundamental to the understanding of the social and economic role of information. Issues like the plight of the information poor, the poverty of information policy, the future of universal service, are emphasised throughout.

Part of a series which presents research on international social movements, this volume focuses on social movements and violence. Topics discussed include: individual motivations in underground political organizations; decisions to use terrorism; and ethnic and socio-revolutionary terrorism.

Discusses a variety of topics in the field of research in population economics, under the headings of the economics of the family in low- and high-income countries, time-series analyses of fertility, and private and public investments in education.

An annual publication that focuses on four interrelated urban processes: population and employment location; political leadership and policy outputs; bureaucratic processes and service delivery; and citizen preferences and participatory activities.

Discusses advances in applied microeconomics. This book overs issues such as efficiency in auctions when bidders have private information about competitors, lift-lining, the general double auction mechanism, and lottery qualification auctions.

Advances in Taxation publishes relevant, quality manuscripts from around the world on any aspect of federal, state, local, or international taxation including tax compliance, tax planning, tax policy issues, and current issues in tax.

This volume covers such topics as psychological ownership in organizations, employee perceptions of fairness when human resource systems change, a culture-based perspective of organization development implementation, and mapping the progress of change through organizational levels.

Focuses on four interrelated urban processes: population and employment location; political leadership and policy outputs; bureaucratic processes and service delivery; and citizen preferences and participatory activities.

Describes the graduate career of F.Taylor Ostrander, notable the year spent at Oxford University. This volume also contains two documents important for the history of Institutional Economics, John R. Commons' "Reasonable Value"; and notes from Clarence E. Ayres' final course taught on institutional economics, at the University of Texas.

Informs readers of the historical foundations on which the accounting profession is based, the historical antecedents of today's accounting institutions, and the historical impact of accounting. This book explores the lives and works of pre-eminent individuals in the profession's history.

Focuses attention on why capitalism survives crises by developing the argument that it has moved on from its 19th century embodiment to include a class of shock absorbers. This book tells how this class, consisting of fractionalised individuals, absorbs the massive surpluses of produced commodities.

Addresses a range of phenomena related to the general question of when people behave in an altruistic fashion. This book contains topics that include how empathy induced altruism can actually be a threat to the some larger collective good, and the role of egoism in the production and maintenance of social order.

Demand studies and understanding consumer behavior remain two of the most important areas of analysis by practicing applied economists and econometricians. This book presents research on the estimation of demand systems and the measurement of consumer preferences.

The 3rd volume of Contemporary Ethnographic Studies focuses on the Web of Leadership and Presidency in Higher Education.