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The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2022

Katharina Sass
Katharina Sass
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

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The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms
Cleavages and Coalitions
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
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The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms

Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms examines this question through an in-depth analysis of education politics in Germany and Norway during the postwar period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that education 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 crosscutting cleavages connected to religion, geography, language, anti-communism, 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.

Katharina Sass is Associate Professor of Sociology and Didactics at the University of Bergen.

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