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Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States - Hardcover

Busemeyer, Marius R.

 
9781107062931: Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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).

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