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Author Sass, Katharina, 1986- author.

Title The politics of comprehensive school reforms : cleavages and coalitions / Katharina Sass
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Series The comparative politics of education
Cambridge studies in the comparative politics of education.
Contents Back to the roots -- Political playing fields : actors' power resources and social base -- The class cleavage : struggles over comprehensive schooling -- The crosscutting cleavages : struggles over religion, centralization, language, anticommunism, and gender
Summary Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political divides, that shape actors' interests, ideologies, and inclinations for who they want to cooperate with - or not. The book analyzes cross-cutting cleavages connected to religion, geography, language, anticommunism, and gender, and demonstrates how Norwegian social democrats and German Christian democrats built successful coalitions by mobilizing support from different social groups. Extensively researched and expansively applicable, this book contributes to the interdisciplinary literature on the politics of education, and to the field of comparative welfare and education regime research. This book is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2022)
Subject Educational change -- Norway -- History
Educational change -- Germany (West) -- History
Educational equalization -- Norway -- History
Educational equalization -- Germany (West) -- History
Education and state -- Norway -- History
Education and state -- Germany (West) -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Education and state
Educational change
Educational equalization
Germany (West)
Norway
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022010328
ISBN 9781009235211
1009235214