Skills and inequality : partisan politics and the political economy of education reforms in Western welfare states
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Skills and inequality : partisan politics and the political economy of education reforms in Western welfare states
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
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  Gifu
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  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
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  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-297) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the perspective of comparative welfare state research. Highlighting the striking similarities between established worlds of welfare capitalism and educational regimes, Marius R. Busemeyer argues that both have similar political origins in the postwar period. He identifies partisan politics and different varieties of capitalism as crucial factors shaping choices about the institutional design of post-secondary education. The political and institutional survival of vocational education and training as an alternative to academic higher education is then found to play an important role in the later development of skill regimes. Busemeyer also studies the effects of educational institutions on social inequality and patterns of public opinion on the welfare state and education. Adopting a multi-method approach, this book combines historical case studies of Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom with quantitative analyses of macro-level aggregate data and micro-level survey data.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Political and Institutional Determinants of Education Policy: 1. Theoretical framework: partisan politics in context
- 2. The politics of education and training reform: case studies
- 3. Worlds of skill formation: cross-national quantitative analysis
- Part II. The Impact of Educational Institutions on Outcomes and Popular Attitudes: 4. Educational institutions and socioeconomic inequality
- 5. The impact of educational institutions on popular attitudes and preferences
- 6. Conclusion.
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