Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Series editor's preface; 1 Introduction: A governance perspective on education policy; Part I: Comparative education politics: Exploring legacies and institutional settings; 2 Veto-points and the politics of introducing school vouchers in the United States and Sweden; 3 Comparing higher education policies in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 Transforming the educative state in the Nordic countries?
Part II: Education in public policy analysis and public administration: Winding roads to implementation5 Modes of governance in German curricular reform: Examining transformative change before the Bologna Process; 6 Decentralizing education policy in Italy: Entrepreneurship and networks implementation; 7 Bounded rationality in Finnish education policy-making; Part III: Education in international relations: An emerging multi-level setting; 8 The role of ideas in GATS education negotiations: Evidence from Argentin
Summary
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of its analytical perspectives and methodological tools
