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The politics of institutional reform : Katrina, education, and the second face of power
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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Treating Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment, Moe explores New Orleans education reform to reveal how political power shapes efforts to fix failing institutions.
Details
- Creator
- Terry M. Moe
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 168 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1108481159, 9781108646659, 9781108740388, 9781108689250, 9781108481151, 1108646654
- OCLC
- on1089012903
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Half Title; Title page; Imprints page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Roadmap to This Book; 1 Power, Vested Interests, and the Politics of Institutional Reform; Vested Interests; Vested Interests and Opposition to Reform; Vested Interests and the Politics of Blocking; Vested Interests in Education; Teachers Unions; School Districts; Reformers in Education; The Struggle for Education Reform; The Second Face of Power; A Natural Experiment; 2 Before Katrina: The Normal Politics of Reform; The Social Context; Early Reform Efforts at the Local Level; State-Driven Reform
- Background: Early StateLed Efforts to Reform Louisiana EducationMike Foster, Cecil Picard, and Charter Reform; Mike Foster, Leslie Jacobs, and Paul Pastorek; A New Millennium?; The Adoption of Act 9; Reform in a PowerConstrained World; 3 After Katrina: Reform with the Lid Off; The Aftermath; Act 35: The Opportunity to Start Anew; From Incrementalists to Radicals; A Public Framing, Elemental Ideas; Networks and Institution-Building; Entrepreneurial Leadership; A Revolution Achieved; 4 Protecting the Revolution: Toward a New Normal; For Opponents, A Unifying Idea; The Return that Wasn't
- Vested Interests: Out with the Old, in with the NewElectoral Power as a Protector of Reform: The Fight for BESE; Electoral Power as a Protector of Reform: The Fight for THE OPSB; The Revolution Matures; Climate Change; The Dawning of a New Era; Power, Protection, and the Future; 5 Learning from Katrina; Vested Interests and Normal Politics in New Orleans; The Rise of the Problem-Solvers; The Emergence of a Reform Community; Corporate Interests and Disaster Capitalism; Other Districts Affected by Katrina; Political Science and Institutional Reform; Problem-Solving as a Universal Potential
- The Inevitability of PowerConclusion; Index