Foundations, Schools and The State: School improvement partnerships in Germany and the United States as legitimacy-generating arrangements

Public Management Review

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1095-1116

  Thümler, Ekkehard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foundations; legitimacy; public private partnerships; school reform; successful failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859261420     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2011.619065     Document Type: Article

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