Education in Political Science: Discovering a Neglected Field
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variet...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Routledge
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science Ser.
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| Further subjects: | B
Education and state
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780415494779 |
| Summary: | This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety of political science perspectives: comparative politics, public policy analysis and public administration, international relations, and political theory. By applying a governance perspective on education policy, the authors explore the changing institutional settings, new actors' constellations, horizontal modes of interaction and public-private regulatory mechanisms with respect to the role of the state in this policy field. The volume deals with questions that are not merely concerned with the content or outcomes of education, but it explicitly takes a political science view on how education politics work. Including country case studies from the Americas and across Europe, institutional analyses of education policy in the EU and the WTO/GATS as well as normative reflections on the topic, the volume provides a grand overview on the diversity of issues in education policy. Dealing with a so far neglected field of policy, this book provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of a rapidly changing topic. Education in Political Science will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, education, sociology and economics. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Series editor's preface -- 1 Introduction: a governance perspective on education policy -- Part I Comparative education politics: exploring legacies and institutional settings -- 2 Veto-points and the politics of introducing school vouchers in the United States and Sweden -- 3 Comparing higher education policies in Central and Eastern Europe -- 4 Transforming the educative state in the Nordic countries? -- Part II Education in public policy analysis and public administration: winding roads to implementation -- 5 Modes of governance in German curricular reform: examining transformative change before the Bologna Process -- 6 Decentralizing education policy in Italy: entrepreneurship and networks implementation -- 7 Bounded rationality in Finnish education policy-making -- Part III Education in international relations: an emerging multi-level setting -- 8 The role of ideas in GATS education negotiations: evidence from Argentina and Chile -- 9 Multilateral surveillance in education by the OMC -- 10 International networks in education politics -- Part IV Meta-reflections on education and political science: where to go and for whose good? -- 11 Normative dimensions of reforms in higher education -- 12 Education policy and the harmonization of political science as a discipline -- 13 Political science and educational research: windows of opportunity for a neglected relationship -- 14 Conclusion: education policy, political science and the state in transition -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-203-87331-1 |
