From the Ballot to the Blackboard (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521190183)

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.

Author: Ben W. Ansell
ISBN-10: 0521190185
ISBN-13: 9780521190183
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2010
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2011