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This book was published in 2003.This book offers a broad and
incisive analysis of the governance of privacy protection with
regard to personal information in contemporary advanced industrial
states. Based on research across many countries, it discusses the
goals of privacy protection policy and the changing discourse
surrounding the privacy issue, concerning risk, trust and social
values. It analyzes at length the contemporary policy instruments
that together comprise the inventory of possible solutions to the
problem of privacy protection. It argues that privacy protection
depends upon an integration of these instruments, but that any
country's efforts are inescapably linked with the actions of others
that operate outside its borders. The book concludes that, in a
'globalizing' world, this regulatory interdependence could lead
either to a search for the highest possible standard of privacy
protection, or to competitive deregulation, or to a more complex
outcome reflecting the nature of the issue and its policy
responses.
Recent reforms in the governance of schooling have affected roles,
relationships and decision-making within schools and between them
and the wider community. Using empirical and theoretical approaches
this book describes, analyses and compares the effects of devolved
management on secondary schools in a number of countries. It casts
a critical light upon policy assumptions and aims, challenging
assumptions about the way policy works in practice. Through a
comparative international perspective, which looks at countries
including the UK and the US, the conflicting options for school
governance are addressed. These include: *parental participation
and school management policy *professional, managerial and market
principles in education *school-based decision-making and the
implications of overarching government policies *devolution and
centralisation. This is a timely study for practitioners in
education, policy-makers in local and central government, academics
and students of education policy and management.
This book offers a broad and incisive analysis of the governance of
privacy protection with regard to personal information in
contemporary advanced industrial states. Based on research across
many countries, it discusses the goals of privacy protection policy
and the changing discourse surrounding the privacy issue,
concerning risk, trust and social values. It analyzes at length the
contemporary policy instruments that together comprise the
inventory of possible solutions to the problem of privacy
protection. It argues that privacy protection depends upon an
integration of these instruments, but that any country's efforts
are inescapably linked with the actions of others that operate
outside its borders. The book concludes that, in a 'globalizing'
world, this regulatory interdependence could lead either to a
search for the highest possible standard of privacy protection, or
to competitive deregulation, or to a more complex outcome
reflecting the nature of the issue and its policy responses.
Recent reforms in the governance of schooling have affected roles, relationships and decision-making within schools and between them and the wider community. Using empirical and theoretical approaches this book describes, analyses and compares the effects of devolved management on secondary schools in a number of countries. It casts a critical light upon policy assumptions and aims, challenging assumptions about the way policy works in practice. Through a comparative international perspective, which looks at countries including the UK and the US, the conflicting options for school governance are addressed. These include: *parental participation and school management policy *professional, managerial and market principles in education *school-based decision-making and the implications of overarching government policies *devolution and centralisation. This is a timely study for practitioners in education, policy-makers in local and central government, academics and students of education policy and management.
International co-operation in criminal law enforcement has become a
centrally important policy issue for Europe in the 1990s. In
criminal matters, when a decision is taken to go beyond the
discretionary exchange of information towards institutionalized
police co-operation, a whole Pandora's box of issues and problems
is opened. This book, based on interviews in a wide variety of
documentary sources, examines the progress of this co-operation.
The authors cover all the major and theoretical issues associated
with the emerging pattern of co-operation, including the
harmonization of criminal law and criminal procedure, law
enforcement strategies, police organization and discipline, and the
politics of immigration and civil liberties. In a European Union
without internal border controls there is widespread agreement on
the objective of closer police co-operation. But prospects in some
areas are not good and there are potential pitfalls, even dangers,
along the road to more integrated arrangements. The authors
conclude by making recommendations that proper accountability
arrangements are a prerequisite of a balanced and efficient system
of European police co-operation.
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