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To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations
Given high costs of negotiating formal international institutions, states are widely expected to adapt, reform, and repurpose existing institutions...
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Teachers’ perspectives of national assessment reform in Kazakhstani secondary education
The focus of this qualitative phenomenological case study was on a recent nationwide reform in Kazakhstani secondary education which included...
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Universal Health Coverage with Private Options: The Politics of Turkey’s 2008 Health Reform
Over the past decades, countries across the Global South have been adopting expansionary health reforms and are increasingly doing so under the...
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A case study of decentralization reform in a Chinese university
Chinese universities are undergoing a decentralization reform that academic schools take the responsibility for its own running. Under the framework...
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Weaving as writing: a serious omission in the Bolivian Educational Reform of 1994
The author examines the conflicts arising, with the Bolivian Education Reform of 1994, between previous forms of literacy acquired through weaving...
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Do Alimony Regulations Matter Inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial...
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Universal Transfers, Tax Breaks and Fertility: Evidence from a Regional Reform in Norway
The relatively high fertility in the Nordic countries has attracted considerable academic and political interest. Still, the causal relationship...
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Between Scylla and Charybdis: Land Reform and Local Agents Under the Chinese Communist Regime
What determines the process and scale of socioeconomic reform—such as land redistribution—in a new political regime? While the existing literature on...
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An Exploration of the Association of Police-Involved Killings of US Citizens and Police Reform Bills—A Punctuated Equilibrium Theoretical Application
Since the highly publicized killings of unarmed and non-dangerous Americans, particularly African American men, at the hands of law enforcement,...
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Revisiting Enduring Labour Questions and Social Reproduction Dynamics in Rural Zimbabwe’s Post Land Reform Context: Implications on Citizen Welfare and Wellbeing
Enduring agrarian labour questions and social reproduction dynamics in former settler colonies like Zimbabwe have always been a subject of much...
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Deepening Rural Reform
At present, the rural economy and society are undergoing profound changes. The interest relationships of rural reformRural reform are more...
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The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China’s reform era
In this article, we explore the micro-foundations of elite politics by focusing on changes in network structures that emerge from informal...
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China’s Research Evaluation Reform: What are the Consequences for Global Science?
In the 1990s, China created a research evaluation system based on publications indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) and on the Journal Impact...
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Methods of Political Influence of Weak Interests Using the Example of the Reform Process of the Bundesteilhabegesetz (Federal Participation Act)
People with disabilities and their associations should have the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes by following the principle of...
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Policy Analysis of Hukou System Linkage Reform
This chapter lays out some necessary reforms in other fields to promote further Hukou reform. Hukou system reform is a long-term systematic...
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Policy Recommendations for the Hukou System Reform
Given the theoretical and empirical findings in previous chapters, the final chapter makes policy recommendations for the future Hukou system reform....
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Constraints and incentives in the investment regime: How bargaining power shapes BIT reform
States have increasingly started to terminate and renegotiate their bilateral investment treaties (BITs). Dominant explanations have however...
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Reform of China’s taxation system: from embedment in the economy to embedment in society
To match national development goals and increase in the tax base, the government must embed a taxation system in economic and social contexts. Since...
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Better off by Law? The Association Between a Constitutional Reform and the Subjective Well-Being of the LGBT Community
While several authors have reported that attitudes towards the LGBT community have not changed in Latin America for a number of decades, there is...
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The Pariah Elite: The Reform of the Judiciary
This chapter focuses on one aspect of the campaign against the judges launched and fuelled by the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice; PiS)...