Skills and inequality : partisan politics and the political economy of education reforms in western welfare states /

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Author / Creator:Busemeyer, Marius R.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398386
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ISBN:9781316074336
1316074331
9781107062931
1107062934
9781107477650
1107477654
9781107647930
9781316079072
1316079074
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the perspective of comparative welfare state research. Highlighting the striking similarities between established worlds of welfare capitalism and educational regimes, Marius R. Busemeyer argues that both have similar political origins in the postwar period. He identifies partisan politics and different varieties of capitalism as crucial factors shaping choices about the institutional design of post-secondary education. The political and institutional survival of vocational education and training as an alternative to academic higher education is then found to play an important role in the later development of skill regimes. Busemeyer also studies the effects of educational institutions on social inequality and patterns of public opinion on the welfare state and education. Adopting a multi-method approach, this book combines historical case studies of Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom with quantitative analyses of macro-level aggregate data and micro-level survey data"--
Other form:Print version: Busemeyer, Marius R. Skills and inequality 9781107062931