TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sass,Katharina
TI  - The politics of comprehensive school reforms: cleavages and coalitions 
T2  - The comparative politics of Education
SN  - 9781009235211 (ebook)
AV  - LA891.82 .S37 2022
U1  - 370.9481 23/eng/20220606
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Educational change
KW  - Norway
KW  - History
KW  - Germany (West)
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Education and state
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Aug 2022); Back to the roots -- Political playing fields : actors' power resources and social base -- The class cleavage : struggles over comprehensive schooling -- The crosscutting cleavages : struggles over religion, centralization, language, anticommunism, and gender; Open Access
N2  - Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political divides, that shape actors' interests, ideologies, and inclinations for who they want to cooperate with - or not. The book analyzes cross-cutting cleavages connected to religion, geography, language, anticommunism, and gender, and demonstrates how Norwegian social democrats and German Christian democrats built successful coalitions by mobilizing support from different social groups. Extensively researched and expansively applicable, this book contributes to the interdisciplinary literature on the politics of education, and to the field of comparative welfare and education regime research. This book is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009235211
ER  -