Working governance for working land

Is Global Environmental Governance Working ?

NAFTA and its environmental side agreement were supposed to bring prosperity to Mexico and thus give it the money to improve public health and natural resource protection. So far, the treaties haven’t done either. But that does not mean that environmentalists’ criticism of the pacts was correct, just that proponents were wrong. It also means that new trade agreements being forged by the Bush ad...

Working Paper: Designing a Data Governance Framework

Data governance is an emerging research area getting attention from information systems (IS) scholars and practitioners. In this paper I take a look at existing literature and current state-of-the-art in data governance. I found out that there is only a limited amount of existing scientific literature, but many practitioners are already treating data as a valuable corporate asset. The paper des...

Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series

This paper provides a review of recent policy initiatives to reform teacher compensation systems and evidence regarding the effect of these policies. The first section examines the current structure of teacher compensation in the U.S. K-12 public education system. The compensation “system” for teachers is fragmented and uncoordinated. Teacher compensation is largely set by salary schedules that...

Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series

Is OSHA working for working people?