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In Europe and around the world, social policies and welfare
services have faced increasing pressure in recent years as a result
of political, economic, and social changes. Just as Europe was a
leader in the development of the welfare state and the supportive
structures of corporatist politics from the 1920s onward, Europe in
particular has experienced stresses from globalization and striking
innovation in welfare policies. While debates in the United
Kingdom, Germany, and France often attract wide international
attention, smaller European countries-Belgium, Denmark, Austria, or
Finland-are often overlooked. This volume seeks to correct this
unfortunate oversight as these smaller countries serve as models
for reform, undertaking experiments that only later gain the
attention of stymied reformers in the larger countries.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states
began to provide many of the public services we now take for
granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis
of the political origins of modern public services during this
period. Ansell and Lindvall show how struggles among political
parties and religious groups shaped the structure of diverse yet
crucially important public services, including policing, schooling,
and public health. Liberals, Catholics, conservatives, socialists,
and fascists all fought bitterly over both the provision and
political control of public services, with profound consequences
for contemporary political developments. Integrating data on the
historical development of public order, education, and public
health with novel measures on the ideological orientation of
governments, the authors provide a wealth of new evidence on a
missing link in the history of the modern state.
Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has
shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the
question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal -
shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the
historical relationship between economic modernization and the
emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects
of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream
arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that
democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically
disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have
more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite
interests are low.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states
began to provide many of the public services we now take for
granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis
of the political origins of modern public services during this
period. Ansell and Lindvall show how struggles among political
parties and religious groups shaped the structure of diverse yet
crucially important public services, including policing, schooling,
and public health. Liberals, Catholics, conservatives, socialists,
and fascists all fought bitterly over both the provision and
political control of public services, with profound consequences
for contemporary political developments. Integrating data on the
historical development of public order, education, and public
health with novel measures on the ideological orientation of
governments, the authors provide a wealth of new evidence on a
missing link in the history of the modern state.
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.
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.
Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has
shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the
question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal -
shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the
historical relationship between economic modernization and the
emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects
of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream
arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that
democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically
disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have
more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite
interests are low.
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