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Stromquist, Nelly P.; Gil-Anton, Manuel; Colatrella, Carol; Mabokela, Reitumtse Obakeng; Smolentseva, Anna; Balbachevsky, Elizabeth – Higher Education Quarterly, 2007
On the empirical basis of six national studies (Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Denmark, Russia and South Africa), this paper examines the phenomenon of segmentation, defined as the solidification of deep hierarchies with little crossover between categories of institutions or individuals. The massification of higher education has brought about a great…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Governance, Cross Cultural Studies
Joumard, Isabelle – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2005
Enhanced autonomy of sub-national governments has spurred innovative management. Spending assignments across levels of government, however, often overlap and/or are not yet fully understood by most citizens. Sub-national governments' accountability is further reduced by the heavy reliance on federal transfers, as opposed to own-revenues (taxes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Educational Finance, Administrative Organization