Dulce Manzano (Madrid Universidad Complutense)

Bringing Down the Educational Wall

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book studies the causes of educational expansion. It considers the economic context of nations and explores the impact of political regimes and the ideology of dictatorships on education. The book is for undergraduate and graduate students in comparative politics and political economy courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781107024540
• ISBN-10: 1107024544
• Artikelnr.: 48582417

Autorenporträt

Dulce Manzano is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Complutense, Madrid. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the area of political economy and comparative politics at the Juan March Institute, Madrid, has a Ph.D. in Political Science (2007) and is a doctoral member of the Juan March Institute. She has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University with the financial support of national grants (Ramón Areces and Caja Madrid Foundations). Her work has been published in Comparative European Politics, South European Society and Politics, and Political Studies, and she is the author of Democracia, Instituciones y Política Económica (with José Fernández-Albertos, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The institutional link
3. Tracing the impact of political regimes
4. The ideology of dictatorships
5. Political regimes, economic development and the expansion of education
6. Political regimes and education policies. Case analysis
7. The impact of inequality on education
Conclusion.