Marius R. Busemeyer

Skills and Inequality

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that critical choices about the institutional design of education systems in the post-war period have long-term implications for social inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781107647930
• ISBN-10: 1107647932
• Artikelnr.: 44892643

Autorenporträt

Marius R. Busemeyer is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His research focuses on comparative political economy and welfare state research, education and social policy, public spending, theories of institutional change and, more recently, public opinion on the welfare state. He has published a large number of journal articles and edited The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation (with Christine Trampusch, 2011) as well as a special issue of the Socio-Economic Review on 'The Political Economy of Skills and Inequality' (with Torben Iversen).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Political and Institutional Determinants of
Education Policy: 1. Theoretical framework: partisan politics in context;
2. The politics of education and training reform: case studies; 3. Worlds
of skill formation: cross-national quantitative analysis; Part II. The
Impact of Educational Institutions on Outcomes and Popular Attitudes: 4.
Educational institutions and socioeconomic inequality; 5. The impact of
educational institutions on popular attitudes and preferences; 6.
Conclusion.