This study examines the aggregate change of the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) expansion between Taiwan's presidential elections from a spatial perspective. We find that the expansion of the DPP exhibited spatial clustering from 1996 to 2000. Its growth was clustered in southern Taiwan in this period, creating a considerable stronghold in the 2000 presidential election. From 2000 to 2004,...

The paper explores developments in the sphere of tertiary education in Russia during the period of socio-economic transformation. It is demonstrated that under market reforms deceptively positive tendency to educational expansion conceals rising inequality in access to education, quality erosion and increasing human capital mismatch thus reducing competitive advantage of Russia lying with natio...

Team-based primary care offers the potential to dramatically improve the quality and efficiency of care, but its broader adoption is hindered by an education system that trains health professions in silos. Collaborative models that educate multiple practitioners together are needed to create a new generation of health professionals able to work in efficiently functioning teams. Changes in profe...

We analyze the twentieth century expansion in higher educational enrollments. Rates of expansion increased dramatically in all types of countries starting around 1960. A dramatically changed model of society came into place world-wide -one in which schooled knowledge and personnel were seen as appropriate for a wide variety of social positions, and in which greatly expanded proportions of young...

his article aimed to indicate the main sources of research used explore constitution academic field Special Education. A set 13 was organized, divided between three moments that resulted in process Education: 1. Background; 2. Constituent; and 3. Expansion. Based on concept Pierre Bourdieu’s field, authors from Education dealing with institutionalization fields, it obtained as results: a) The t...

Abstract We study the relationship between educational inequality, income inequality and economic transformation using data of 20 OECD countries from 1870 to 2016. Our results show that expansion policies increase in long run, while having no significant effect on short run. The structural suggested by Kuznets (1955) explains this potentially counter intuitive result, where contemporary policy,...