An Approach to Measuring Subnational Administrative Autonomy in Education

Naomi Aoki and Larry Schroeder

International Journal of Public Administration, 2014, vol. 37, issue 1, 10-19

Abstract: Efforts to measure decentralization have focused on political or fiscal autonomy, but not on administrative autonomy. Focusing on the education sector, we measured de facto subnational administrative autonomy across 64 countries/economies, via the domains of human resource management, salary management, budget management, and service content design. The findings reveal that subnational autonomy can differ substantially across those domains and within countries, and that the use of a single country-level indicator for administrative decentralization is inadequate. Furthermore, we show that administrative decentralization is as significant a factor as federal status in evaluating the degree to which a country/economy is decentralized or centralized.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2013.809588

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