Educational Decentralization and Its Implications for Governance: Explaining the Differences in the Four Asian Newly Industrialized Economies

Autor/in	Lo, William Yat Wai
Titel	Educational Decentralization and Its Implications for Governance: Explaining the Differences in the Four Asian Newly Industrialized Economies
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 40 (2010) 1, S.63-78 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Comparative Education; International Education; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Educational Development; Educational Change; Change Strategies; Educational Environment; Politics of Education; Educational Principles; Educational Administration; Administrative Organization; Educational Finance; Government Role; Global Approach; Local Issues; Democracy; Governance; Economics; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Political Attitudes; Postsecondary Education; Hong Kong; Singapore; South Korea; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Internationale Erziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; Lösungsstrategie; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Educational policy; Bildungsprinzip; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Bildungsfonds; Globales Denken; Demokratie; Education; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Hongkong; Singapur; Korea; Republik
Abstract	This paper views seeking the optimal balance between state strengths and the scope of state functions for "good governance" as the formation of a homogenization-heterogenization matrix of policy initiatives in different social settings. Homogenization refers to a global tendency for institutional changes and governance framework to change state capacity, while heterogenization refers to the local adaptation of these global transformations. The paper attempts to take educational decentralization as an example of policy initiatives to assess and analyse the significance of the two opposite poses in four East Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs) (Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan). The paper's position is that it may be useful to see these four NIEs as making up two clusters. It sees political democratic transitions in Korea and Taiwan as important local factors affecting the developments of educational decentralization in the two societies, while reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore seem to be more consequences of managerial and market values. However, the NIEs face the question of how to maintain sufficient "stateness" in the decentralization process. To conclude, the paper considers that achieving the balance of "stateness" is the key to success in state-building. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10