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    Using Courts to Realize Education Rights: Reflections from India and Indonesia
    Rosser, A ; Joshi, A (World Bank, 2018-05-22)
    This paper examines the role of courts in promoting fulfillment of the right to education in developing country democracies, focusing on India and Indonesia—two countries that have experienced increased education rights litigation in recent years. The paper argues that this litigation has been part of broader struggles over education policy, inequality, and the capture of educational institutions by political and bureaucratic forces; and that the extent to which litigation has been used and led to policy changes has depended significantly on the nature of, and access to, the court system; the presence of support structures for legal mobilization; the ideology of the courts and judges; and the roles and willingness of litigants to pursue redress. Broadly, litigation has served the interests of the poor and marginalized, although gains have largely come through better access to education, while issues of improving quality have been less prominent.
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    The political economy of teacher management reform in Indonesia
    Rosser, A ; Fahmi, M (Elsevier, 2018-07-01)
    Indonesia faces serious problems in the number, cost, quality and distribution of teachers. In recent years, its central government has introduced a range of reforms to address these problems but they have produced modest results. This paper suggests that this outcome reflects the way in which predatory political and bureaucratic elites have used the school system for decades to accumulate resources, distribute patronage, mobilize political support, and exercise political control rather than promote improved learning outcomes. Efforts to reduce teacher numbers, enhance teacher quality, and improve teacher distribution have accordingly constituted an assault on the interests of these elites, provoking powerful, if often subterranean, resistance. Broadly, reform has only occurred where the central government has employed policy instruments that have disciplined local governments and maintained a commitment to these instruments in the face of resistance. The paper concludes by assessing the implications for Indonesian education.
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    Law, democracy and the fulfilment of socioeconomic rights: insights from Indonesia
    Rosser, A ; van Diermen, M (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016-02-01)
    In recent years a debate has emerged about the conditions under which justiciable legal frameworks facilitate the fulfilment of socioeconomic rights. This debate has pitted institutionalist perspectives that emphasise the progressive potential of democratisation against structuralist perspectives that emphasise the constraints imposed by relationships of power and interest. This paper considers the debate in light of Indonesia’s recent experience. It suggests that we need to examine how institutional and structural factors interact within particular contexts to shape socioeconomic rights fulfilment, not examine these factors in isolation. It also considers the strategic implications of this argument for rights proponents.
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    Neo-liberalism and the politics of higher education policy in Indonesia
    Rosser, A (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016-01-01)
    This paper examines Indonesia's experience with neo-liberal higher education reform. It argues that this agenda has encountered strong resistance from the dominant predatory political, military, and bureaucratic elements who occupy the state apparatus, their corporate clients, and popular forces, leading to continuation of the centralist and predatory system of higher education that was established under the New Order. The only areas in which neo-liberal reform has progressed have been those where the neo-liberal agenda has aligned well with that of popular forces and there has been little resistance from predatory elements. In presenting this argument, the paper illustrates the role of domestic configurations of power and interest in mediating global pressures for neo-liberal higher education reform. It accordingly suggests that Indonesia needs to construct a model of higher education that simultaneously fits with the reigning political settlement and produces better research and teaching outcomes than the present model.
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    Asia's rise and the politics of Australian aid policy
    Rosser, A (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016-01-01)
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    The Political Economy of Open Government
    Rosser, A (Faculty of Social and Political Science, Airlangga University, 2017)
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    Beyond Access: Making Indonesia's Education System Work
    Rosser, A (Lowy Institute for International Policy, 2018-02-21)
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    Towards a Political Economy of Human Rights Violations in Post-New Order Indonesia
    Rosser, A (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2013-05-01)
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