Synopses & Reviews
In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature. Brown-Shafii does this by investigating whether a WTO Agreement can be used to promote good governance, development and accountability.
Synopsis
School Choice and Student WellBeing is a review of research in the area of school choice and adapts Sen's theory of Capability to develop a more complex theoretical framework for understanding education markets. It is a timely contestation. Those for whom public education is a necessity are also those most adversely affected by its perceived failure, a for them, the tension between the rhetoric of the public good and the actualite of everyday disadvantage, between doctrine and reality, deserves better explication.
About the Author
SUSAN BROWN-SHAFII is a Scientific Coordinator at the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research on Trade Regulation at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. She has worked on trade-related issues in both the public and private sectors.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Short History and Objectives of the 1994 WTO Agreement
The GPA's International Administrative Disciplines: Distilling the Underlying Political Foundations
Addressing the WTO Membership Challenge
Towards a More Coherent International Regulatory Picture: Converging Institutional Debates?
Pulling It All Together: How Far Might the GPA Procedures Go?