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Raised to Obey
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizens Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? In Raised to Obey, Agustina Paglayan offers an unsettling answer. The introduction of broadly accessible primary education was not mainly a response to industrialization, or fueled by democratic ideals, or even aimed at eradicating illiteracy or improving skills. It was motivated instead by elites’ fear of the masses—and the desire to turn the “savage,” “unruly,” and “morally flawed...
Raised to Obey
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizens Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? In Raised to Obey, Agustina Paglayan offers an unsettling answer. The introduction of broadly accessible primary education was not mainly a response to industrialization, or fueled by democratic ideals, or even aimed at eradicating illiteracy or improving skills. It was motivated instead by elites’ fear of the masses—and the desire to turn the “savage,” “unruly,” and “morally flawed...
The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The world Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Control and Eastern Europe: North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy
This Handbook presents chapters that explore the causes and consequences of politics within economic history using social-scientific theory and methods.The first section summarizes the state of the field and provides an overview of the data and techniques typically used by HPE scholars. Subsequent chapters survey major HPE research areas in political economy, political science, and economics, as well as the long-run economic, political, and social consequences of historical political economy
Remaking College
Between 1945 and 1990 the United States built the largest and most productive higher education system in world history. Over the last two decades, however, dramatic budget cuts to public academic services and skyrocketing tuition have made college completion more difficult for many. Nevertheless, the democratic promise of education and the global competition for educated workers mean ever growing demand. Remaking College considers this changing context, arguing that a growing accountability revolution, the push for greater efficiency and productivity, and the explosion of online learning are changing the character of higher education. Writing from a range of disciplines and professional back...
Education for All?
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The Promise of Participation
To what extent does participation in one particular domain of public life lead to wider participation in other areas? Through the use of an unprecedented survey supported by case studies this book explores how participatory governance in community-managed schools can alter the civic and political behaviour of participants.
The Advantage of Disadvantage
The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest. Drawing on formal theory, surveys, and quantitative data, the book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of representation, inequality, and digital activism.
The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
Human Development and the Path to Freedom
A new framework for measuring the evolution of human development and wellbeing in the modern world.
