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This empirical article explores how the interaction between two key aspects of statebuilding (democratisation and decentralisation) and existing forms of governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo led to a multiplication in numbers of political and administrative brokers.

In an era of growing public access to information, how can data be better used to encourage transparency and accountability in the education sector?

the past thirty years have seen a rapid expansion of testing, exposing students worldwide to tests that are now, more than ever, standardized and linked to high-stakes outcomes.

This book discusses how the ways that young people's educational trajectories into and beyond lower secondary education are regulated can influence their future lives.

The chapter focusses on multiple forms of grabbing in the education sector of developing countries, drawing on cases and research she has engaged with while working to support developing countries' education systems.

The school governance environment is an important determinant of schooling quality and thus of development.

The debate around the precise nature of the relationship between decentralization in education and corruption helps us understand why and under what circumstances decentralization may help limit corruption.

How to hold autonomous schools and school governing boards accountable for their decisions and performance has become a particularly pressing question for central governments in many OECD countries.

In introducing the special issue, this essay draws together international experiences by way of examples that have appeared in the Public Administration and Development journal over recent decades. What has worked in global anti-corruption? What has not?

This paper investigates the state and structure of professional norms in the context of undergraduate teaching in a university in Kazakhstan.