State, Church, and School in France II. The Campaign for Lay Education

Muzzey, David Saville

doi:10.1086/435732

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Just a few years after the creation of the Third Republic and France's gradual democratization in the 1870s, after the Second Empire, the Chamber of Deputies adopted the so-called "Ferry Laws," named after the republican politician Jules Ferry. These laws both centralized and secularized France's primary education system (Grew and Harrigan 1991;Saville Muzzey 1911). Another good example of how the combination of democracy and center-left politics facilitated centralizing reforms is Sweden in the first third of the twentieth century.…”

Section: Centralizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Origins of Primary Education Systems: Ideology, Institutions, and Interdenominational Conflict in an Era of Nation-Building

2013

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper is concerned with the development of national primary education regimes in Europe, North America, Latin America, Oceania, and Japan between 1870 and 1939. We examine why school systems varied between countries and over time, concentrating on three institutional dimensions: centralization, secularization, and subsidization. There were two paths to centralization: through liberal and social democratic governments in democracies, or through fascist and conservative parties in autocracies. We find that the secularization of public school systems can be explained by path-dependent state-church relationships (countries with established national churches were less likely to have secularized education systems) but also by partisan politics. Finally, we find that the provision of public funding to private providers of education, especially to private religious schools, can be seen as a solution to religious conflict, since such institutions were most common in countries where Catholicism was a significant but not entirely dominant religion.

show abstract

Section: Centralizationmentioning

confidence: 99%