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Bringing down the educational wall : political regimes, ideology and the expansion of education /
Bringing Down the Educational Wall studies the causes of educational expansion in a global sample of developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2005. The book explores how the interaction between the economic context of nations (economic development and inequality) and political factors (the ty...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Question; 1.2 The Dependent Variable; 1.3 The Argument; 1.4 Overview; 2 The Institutional Link; 2.1 A Political Economy Rationale for the Role of Political Institutions; 2.2 Political Regime Types and Education: An Overview of Existing Accounts; 2.3 Conclusion; 3 Tracing the Impact of Political Regimes; 3.1 The Model; 3.1.1 Rich Economy; 3.1.2 Poor Economy; 3.2 The Excludability of Educational Subsidies; 3.2.1 Poor Economy.
- 3.2.2 Rich Economy3.3 The Interaction between Economic Development and Political Regime; 3.4 Conclusion and Next Steps; Appendix 3.A: The Excludability of Subsidies and Expected Utility in Period One; Appendix 3.B: Expected Utility of the Rich at . and . in Less Developed Countries; 4 The Ideology of Dictatorships; 4.1 Types of Dictatorships; 4.2 Classifying the Ideology of Dictatorial Regimes; 4.3 Operationalization; 4.3.1 Direct Ideological Indicators; Statements; Actions; Genealogy; 4.3.2 Policies; Constitutional provisions; Proscription of parties; Media censorship.
- 4.3.3 Procedure and Problematic Cases4.4 The Data; Appendix 4: Ideology of Dictatorships; 5 Political Regimes, Economic Development and the Expansion of Education; 5.1 Measuring the Expansion of Education; 5.2 The Working Hypotheses; 5.3 Data; 5.4 A Preliminary Exploration of the Data; 5.5 Method of Estimation and Results; 5.6 Robustness Checks: Dynamics and Functional Form; Summary; 5.7 Differences between Democracies and Types of Capital; 6 Political Regimes and Education Policies: Case Analysis.
- 6.1 East and West Germany: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Impact of Democracy versus Left-wing Dictatorship6.2 Ghana and Ivory Coast: Authoritarianism and Educational Policies in Africa; 6.2.1 Ivory Coast; 6.2.2 Ghana; 6.3 Peru and Bolivia: Class Conflict and Education Reform in Latin America; 6.3.1 The Left-wing Military Government of Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975) in Peru; 6.3.2 The Right-wing Military Regime of Hugo Bánzer Suárez (1971-1978) in Bolivia; 7 The Impact of Inequality on Education; 7.1 Data; 7.2 Estimation; 7.3 Equality between the Poor and the Middle Class.
- 7.4 Equality between the Middle Class and the Rich7.5 Equality between the Poor and the Rich; Summary; Conclusion; Appendix A: Codebook of Variables; Bibliography; Index.