Beginning in the late Southern Sung one sect of Confucianism gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the construction of an ideologically exclusionary conception of the Confucian tradition, and how claims to possession of the truth―the Tao―came to serve power.

Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilson, Thomas A.

Philosophy

Stanford University Press

This work uses the tradition of English school inspection as a mirror for reflecting the dilemmas in American school accountability. It aims to address the crises affecting American schools and should assist those implementing educational reform.

Reaching for a Better Standard: English School Inspection and the Dilemma of Accountability for American Schools (The Series on School Reform)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Teachers College Pr

This work uses the tradition of English school inspection as a mirror for reflecting the dilemmas in American school accountability. It aims to address the crises affecting American schools and should assist those implementing educational reform.

Reaching for a Better Standard: English School Inspection and the Dilemma of Accountability for American Schools (Series on School Reform)

The 1997 Federal Budget: Retrospect and Prospect (Queen's Policy Studies Series) (Volume 36)

In this collection of essays leading Canadian policy analysts focus on a range of issues and implications arising from the 1997 federal budget. Essays include a comparative assessment of the Paul Martin and Michael Wilson budgets, an assessment of the emerging fiscal dividend and an evaluation of alternative ways in which it can be spent, a comprehensive overview of the proposed child benefits package, an in-depth examination of new proposals for both the Canada Pension Plan/Quebec Pension Plan and employment insurance, and an empirical review of the fiscal stance as it relates to employment and the output gap. Essays also examine provincial budget issues, including a retrospective on the series of budgets tabled by retiring Alberta treasurer Jim Dinning and an overview of the deficit and deficit performance of the provinces over the last decade.

Business & Money

Courchene, Thomas J.

Economics

John Deutsch Institute for the Study of

Eighteen papers, presented by Beach (economics, Queen's U., Canada) and Wilson (emeritus, economics, U. of Toronto, Canada), collectively analyze economic, political, institutional and social aspects of Canada's 2003 federal budget. Papers assess the quantitative economic effects of the budget, explore accounting and taxation aspects, look at the f

The 2003 Federal Budget: Conflicting Tensions (Volume 87) (Queen’s Policy Studies Series)

Beach, Charles M.

John Deutsch Inst Study of Eco Policy

Eighteen papers, presented by Beach (economics, Queen's U., Canada) and Wilson (emeritus, economics, U. of Toronto, Canada), collectively analyze economic, political, institutional and social aspects of Canada's 2003 federal budget. Papers assess the quantitative economic effects of the budget, explore accounting and taxation aspects, look at the f

The 2003 Federal Budget: Conflicting Tensions (Queen's Policy Studies Series) (Volume 87)

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Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China

Reaching for a Better Standard: English School Inspection and the Dilemma of Accountability for American Schools (The Series on School Reform)

Reaching for a Better Standard: English School Inspection and the Dilemma of Accountability for American Schools (Series on School Reform)

The 1997 Federal Budget: Retrospect and Prospect (Queen's Policy Studies Series) (Volume 36)

The 1997 Federal Budget: Retrospect and Prospect (Queen's Policy Studies Series) (Volume 36)

The 2003 Federal Budget: Conflicting Tensions (Volume 87) (Queen’s Policy Studies Series)

The 2003 Federal Budget: Conflicting Tensions (Queen's Policy Studies Series) (Volume 87)