Review Article: Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education

Busemeyer, Marius R.; Trampusch, Christine

doi:10.1017/s0007123410000517

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“…Education systems and policies have recently received considerable attention in political science (Busemeyer and Trampusch 2011;Gift and Wibbels 2014;Iversen and Stephens 2008;Jakobi et al 2010). At the core of this research are studies probing whether and how governing parties have shaped skill formation regimes.…”

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“…As education policies recently witnessed a huge upswing in scholarly interest (Busemeyer and Trampusch 2011;Gift and Wibbels 2014;Iversen and Stephens 2008;Jakobi et al 2010), political scientists began to ask: do governing parties influence education systems? Scholars particularly investigated whether and how governments have affected public education spending as a policy output that can easily be compared across countries and time (full citations below).…”

Section: Party Influence On Education Spending: Methodological Progrementioning

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“…After several decades of limited scholarly interest, education systems and education policies have recently gained massive prominence in political science (Busemeyer and Trampusch 2011;Gift and Wibbels 2014;Iversen and Stephens 2008;Jakobi et al 2010). Recent contributions have argued that, how and why the politics of skill formation play a central role in shaping labour markets, welfare states and politico-economic systems in general as well as patterns of inequality and redistribution (Hall and Soskice 2001;Iversen 2005;Iversen and Stephens 2008).…”

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Party politics and education spending: challenging some common wisdom

Garritzmann¹,

Seng²

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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Much literature has analysed parties' influence on public education spending. We challenge this literature on theoretical, methodological and empirical grounds. It is standard to regress expenditure on cabinet seat share weighted party family dummies in time series cross section regressions using 'country year' data. But using 'country year' data artificially inflates the number of cases and leads to biased estimates, as governments usually do not change annually. Second, using party families as proxies for party preferences assumes that parties within families hold similar positions while they differ across families. But this is empirically often not the case. Finally, a historical institutionalist perspective suggests that we should not expect party effects anymore in the first place. Empirically, we propose a new design, using direct measures of party preferences in analyses on govern ment term level. We find that the partisan composition of government did not have any significant effects on education spending from 1995 to 2010 in 21 democ racies.

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Section: Party Influence On Education Spending: Methodological Progrementioning

confidence: 99%

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Party politics and education spending: challenging some common wisdom

Garritzmann¹,

Seng²

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…After education had long been neglected in comparative political science and political economy, it has enjoyed growing scholarly interest in recent years (Busemeyer/Trampusch 2011). The debate on Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) played a crucial role in raising the interest of main--stream political science in topics such as the political economy of skills and training (Culpepper 2003;Finegold/Soskice 1988;Streeck 1989;Thelen 2004).…”

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The politics of opting out: explaining educational financing and popular support for public spending

Busemeyer

Iversen

2014

Socio-Economic Review

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Abstract:In this paper, we address two empirical puzzles: Why are cross--country differences in the division of labor between public and private education funding so large, and why are they politically sustainable in the long term? We argue that electoral institutions play a crucial role in shaping politico--economic distributive coalitions that affected the original division of labor in education financing. In PR systems, the lower and middle classes formed a coalition supporting the establishment of a system with a large share of public funding. In majoritarian systems, in contrast, the middle class voters aligned with the upper income class and support private education spending instead. Once established, institutional arrangements create feedback effects on the micro--level of attitudes, reinforcing political support even among upper--middle classes in public systems. These hypotheses are tested empirically both on the micro level of preferences as well as on the macro level with aggregate data and survey data from the ISSP for 20 OECD countries.

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“…Esto se debe a que los docentes tienen que adecuarse a nuevos métodos de enseñanza, como es el caso del enfoque por competencias (Grindle 2004: 42-43) 2 . Esta es un área en la que en algunos sistemas educativos interviene el sector empresarial, que demanda una fuerza laboral formada con ciertas habilidades (Busemeyer y Trampusch 2011).…”

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Política en las políticas de calidad de la educación en Centroamérica

Portillo

2017

Am. Lat. Hoy. Rev. Cienc. Soc.

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RESUMEN: Este estudio analiza la adopción de políticas educativas en Centroamérica y Panamá en materia de aumento de gasto, reformas curriculares y contratación y evaluación docente, durante la década de 2010. Se argumenta que una mayor inversión extranjera directa y un mayor comercio internacional contribuyen a la adopción de estas políticas. Esto se relaciona, a su vez, con los incentivos producidos por las variedades de capitalismo dentro de la región. También se evalúa la hipótesis de que gobiernos conservadores, bajo poderes ejecutivos más fuertes, tienen preferencia por la reforma en políticas de contratación y evaluación docente. Asimismo, se destacan factores históricos para explicar el cambio de política en Costa Rica y el statu quo en Guatemala.Palabras clave: Centroamérica; políticas educativas; estrategias de desarrollo; variedades de capitalismo; cambio institucional.ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the adoption of education policies in Central America and Panama during the 2010 decade in three areas: the increase in education expenditure, curricular reforms and teacher recruitment and evaluation rules. The paper argues that greater foreign direct investment and more international trade are associated with the adoption of these policies. This, in turn, relates to the incentives produced by varieties of capitalism within the region. It is hypothesised that conservative governments under systems with stronger executive powers, have a preference for policy reform in teacher recruitment and evaluation. Historical factors contribute to explain policy change in Costa Rica and the statu quo in Guatemala. En años recientes, como en otros países latinoamericanos, los países de Centroamé-rica han llevado a cabo importantes reformas educativas. La mayoría tienen en común políticas que buscan aumentar y expandir las tasas de matrícula en primaria y, en distintos grados, la expansión de secundaria y la profesionalización docente. Aquí se destacan tres tipos de reformas que buscan mejorar la calidad educativa, realizadas en años recientes en Costa Rica, Honduras y Panamá. En Costa Rica, la introducción por la vía constitucional en 2011 de un destino específico de un 8% del producto interno bruto (PIB) para educación. Con respecto a Honduras y Panamá, entre 2011 y 2013 ambos países introducen nuevos sistemas de contratación y evaluación docente. Debido a la oposición de sectores reacios al gasto fiscal, así como la oposición de los docentes a reformas que pueden presentar cambios en su statu quo, son reformas en que bien se podría pensar, parafraseando a Grindle (2004), los proponentes tenían las posibilidades en contra.Las reformas educativas en América Latina han sido motivo de intenso debate al menos desde la década de 1990. La literatura en política comparada y economía política se ha enfocado en el estudio de casos a nivel latinoamericano, sobre las interacciones entre gobiernos y gremios docentes en las reformas de descentralización, contratación y evaluación docente en Argentina, Brasil, Chile y México en la d...

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Review Article: Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education

Cited by 130 publications

References 145 publications

Party politics and education spending: challenging some common wisdom

Party politics and education spending: challenging some common wisdom

The politics of opting out: explaining educational financing and popular support for public spending

Política en las políticas de calidad de la educación en Centroamérica

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