Politics, Accountability, and Learning: Insights from the RISE Programme’s Political Economy Case St

These relationships of accountability are categorized as politics (or formal political processes), which describes accountability of the highest authorities of the state to its citizens; compact, which refers to the accountability of education authorities to the highest authorities of the state; management, or the accountability of frontline education providers to education authorities; and voice. [...] To mitigate confusion between the politics accountability relationship as described by the 5x4 above (i.e., the relationship between citizens and the highest authorities of the state), and the political dynamics inherent in each cell of the 5x4, we adopt language borrowed from Levy and Walton (2013) to describe the principal-agent relationship in the RISE 5x4 between citizens and the highest elect. [...] Despite the scale of these shifts, major sources of continuity since the 1940s are the twinned goals of “enhancing the socio-economic development of the country and the legitimacy of the ruling elite” (Gershberg, Kefale, and Hailu, 2023, p. [...] To the CPV, education, particularly mass education and ideological indoctrination, has represented a top national policy and political security priority for the better part of the last century.8 For better and worse, the most important determinants of the education system lie in the multifaceted realms of politics and association life, which are pervasive from the level of policymaking down to the. [...] Political incoherence between efforts to enact accountability between the management relationship and at least some students and teachers in the voice and choice relationship led not to the more equitable distribution of primary schooling (as the review intended), but to the dramatic exercise of accountability within the politics relationship via the end of imperial rule.