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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.
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.
This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking processes. By comparing educational outcomes and actors' reactions in different countries, it provides detailed insights into a highly contested policy field.
This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking processes. By comparing educational outcomes and actors' reactions in different countries, it provides detailed insights into a highly contested policy field.
Education policy-making has become a 'hot topic' in many industrialized countries today. Through initiatives by international organizations, such as the OECD's PISA study or the consequences of the GATS negotiations for the marketization in education, this policy field has moved up the political agenda. Few studies, however, have actually tackled these changes in a comprehensive way. This volume provides the most detailed overview of current phenomena in education policy-making and fills a major gap in the academic literature.
International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies. This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding of IOs in global social governance. It provides studies on a variety of social policy fields in which different, but also the same, IOs operate. The chapters shed light on IO involvement in a particular social policy field by describing the population of participating IOs; exploring how a particular global social policy field is constituted as a whole, and which dominant IOs set the trends. The contributors also examine the discourse within, and between, these IOs on the respective social policies. As such, this first-of-its kind book contributes to research on social policy and international relations, both in terms of theoretical substantiation and empirical scope.
In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajecto ries and pat terns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the emergence and de velopment of educa tion systems can be traced back to inherent national factors, as well as to the interna tional diffusion of ideas. The research presented in this volume is a wide-ranging analysis and explana tion of the dynamics of emergence, diffusion, and change in relation to state educa tion systems. The chapters offer an empirical investigation into whether the global diffusion of West ern-rational educational content and organizational forms occurs as expected by neoinstitu tionalist theory, or whether culturally specific developmen tal paths dominate in different parts of the world. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in various social science disci plines, including social policy, education, sociology, political science, international relations, organizational the ory, and economics.
In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajecto ries and pat terns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the emergence and de velopment of educa tion systems can be traced back to inherent national factors, as well as to the interna tional diffusion of ideas. The research presented in this volume is a wide-ranging analysis and explana tion of the dynamics of emergence, diffusion, and change in relation to state educa tion systems. The chapters offer an empirical investigation into whether the global diffusion of West ern-rational educational content and organizational forms occurs as expected by neoinstitu tionalist theory, or whether culturally specific developmen tal paths dominate in different parts of the world. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in various social science disci plines, including social policy, education, sociology, political science, international relations, organizational the ory, and economics.
This book is devoted to the analysis of the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its role in
international and national policy making. On its 50th anniversary,
the OECD enjoys widely acknowledged international standing. Despite
this, it has so far remained a rarely researched and analyzed
organization. Mechanisms of OECD Governance is thus a pioneering
work: it fills a long-overdue gap in presenting a theoretically
guided and empirically rich analysis of the OECD as a political
actor, and explores its role in political processes through various
case studies in a variety of policy fields. By conceptualizing the
contributions to this volume around the concept of mechanisms of
governance, the book explores how and to what extent the OECD
provides international incentives for national policy making.
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