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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Local Decisions Under Central Watch: A Nordic Quality Assurance System
Jan Merok PaulsenElisabet NihlforsGuri SkedsmoOlof JohanssonMika RiskuMikael HolmgrenLejf Moossubject
VirtueDelegationbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectControl (management)Public administrationEducational leadershipPolitical scienceBasic educationAccountabilitySanctionsbusinessQuality assurancemedia_commondescription
Quality assurance or accountability, as we use the term, refers to when an actor, in virtue of contractual obligations, has the right to hold another actor responsible to a set of standards, to judge whether the standards have been met and to impose sanctions if the standards are deemed unfulfilled. In this chapter, we compare how (and if) these rights have been distributed and enacted in educational administration in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. By specifying contractual obligations, we wish to separate accountability from other kinds of asymmetric power relations, such as those between parent and child, and focus on acts of delegation and control.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-01-01 |