Başka pek çok ülkede de olduğu gibi, yaşadığımız süreç Türkiye’de de düzenleyici devlet dönemidir. Düzenleyici devlet kamu işletmeciliği ve merkezi planlama yerine, piyasa denetçisi, sosyal plancı, minimal devlet veya üçünün bileşeni şeklinde oluşan düzenlemelere bel...

Altyapı hizmetlerinin gördürülmesinde kamu-özel işbirlikleri son yıllarda dünya genelinde hem hızlı biçimde artmakta hem de yoğun biçimde tartışılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada altyapı yatırımlarının gelişimi ve Türkiye’de altyapı projelerine özel sektör katılımına...

Özelleştirme mevcut idari yapılanma ve süreç içerisinde gerçekleştirilmeye uygun bir işlem olmasa da, kural hakimiyeti altında gerçekleştirilmesi gerekmektedir. Kural hakimiyeti ise özelleştirme kararlarının hukuka uygun olmasını ve bağımsız, tarafsız ve yetkin mahkemelerce...

Efficiency is an important consideration for those who manage public services. Costs vary with output and with a variety of other factors. In the case of higher education, for example, factors include quality, student demographics, the scale and scope of the higher education provider, and the...

The Swedish school system suffers from profound problems with teacher recruitment and retention, knowledge decline, and grade inflation. Absenteeism is high, and psychiatric disorders have risen sharply among Swedish pupils in the last ten years. In this pioneering analysis of the consequences...

Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity for knowledge-enhancing innovation as crucial and explore this question by examining Swedish...

Many countries have implemented quasi-markets to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation in welfare service provision. However, the benefits have generally been limited; this can also be observed in Sweden, a country which stands out for its extensive use of quasi-markets. Based on the Swedish...

This essay argues that the most crucial institution of any school system is its view of knowledge - from which virtually all other aspects of a school are derived: the content of its curricula, its pedagogical practices, and the incentives that motivate its members. To make this case, we outline...

Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity for knowledge-enhancing innovation as crucial and explore this question by examining Swedish...