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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    06 July 2010
    22 March 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511730108
    9780521190183
    9781107616998
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511730108
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.52kg, 268 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.4kg, 270 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Subjects:
    Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Subjects:
    Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    From the Ballot to the Blackboard provides the first comprehensive account of the political economy of education spending across the developed and developing world. The book demonstrates how political forces like democracy and political partisanship and economic factors like globalization deeply impact the choices made by voters, parties, and leaders in financing education. The argument is developed through three stories that track the historical development of education: first, its original expansion from the elite to the masses; second, the partisan politics of education in industrialized states; and third, the politics of higher education. The book uses a variety of complementary methods to demonstrate the importance of redistributive political motivations in explaining education policy, including formal modeling, statistical analysis of survey data and both sub-national and cross-national data, and historical case analyses of countries including the Philippines, India, Malaysia, England, Sweden, and Germany.

    Awards

    Winner of the 2011 William H. Riker Book Award, Political Economy Section, American Political Science Association

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