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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Comparative Territorial Politics Ser |
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Comparative territorial politics.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Regional Policymaking and Policy Divergence -- 1 Two Questions -- 2 Regions and Their Policy Capacity -- 2.1 Regional Policy Capacity -- 2.2 The Argument -- 2.3 A Relational and Process-Based Approach to Regional Policymaking -- 3 A Comparison of Regional Education Policy in France and Germany Over Time -- 3.1 The Research Design -- 3.2 Case Selection -- 3.3 Data Collection -- 3.4 Data Analysis -- 4 Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The State, an Absent Guardian of Territorial Equality |
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1 The French State: An Inattentive Guardian of Territorial Equality in Education -- 1.1 State Blindness to Diverging Policy Outputs Before Decentralization -- 1.1.1 Territorially Diverging State Educational Policy Outputs -- 1.1.2 The Tamed Jacobinism in Education -- 1.1.3 The Centrality of Social Equality at School and the "Myopia" to Territorial Inequalities -- 1.2 A State Selective in Its Interventions -- 1.2.1 The Ministry of Education's Opposition to the Decentralization Project -- 1.2.2 The State's Voluntary Withdrawal from Regional Property Policies |
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1.2.3 State Actors' Variable Capacity to Influence Regional Teaching Material Policy -- 1.2.4 The State's Lack of Knowledge About Regional Pedagogical Support Programmes -- 2 The German Federal Government: A Guardian of "Equal Living Conditions" Kept at a Distance from Regional Policies -- 2.1 The Federal Government's Marginal Position and Minimal Regional Coordination -- 2.1.1 The Bund's Peripheral Institutional Foundations -- 2.1.2 The Minimal Coordination of Regional Policies in the 1950s and 1960s -- 2.2 After 1969, Intermittently Strong Mobilizations Countered by the Regions |
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2.2.1 The Bund's School Planning Responsibility and Its Limits -- 2.2.2 Securing a Review of the Division of Educational Responsibilities (1978) -- 2.2.3 Reunification or General Review of Responsibilities? -- 2.2.4 The Absence of Mobilization on Educational Issues (1980s and 1990s) Until PISA -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Politicization of Regional Educational Policies -- 1 Germany: The Party Politicization of Regional Educational Policies -- 1.1 The Social-Democratic/Christian-Democratic Divide -- 1.1.1 The 1970s-1980s: Strong Party Polarization |
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1.1.2 Weaker Party Polarization in the 1990s Reactivated by PISA -- 1.2 The Effects of Party Politicization on Regional Policies -- 1.2.1 Right-Wing Spending and Left-Wing Spending -- 1.2.2 Social-Democratic and Christian-Democratic Regional Policies -- 2 France: The Institutional Politicization of Regional Educational Policies -- 2.1 Conflicting Framings -- 2.1.1 Authority Over High Schools: A "Burden" or an "Opportunity"? -- 2.1.2 "Nothing But the Law" or Stepping Outside the Framework of Formal Responsibilities? |
| Summary |
How have regionalization processes across Europe impacted on policy convergence? This book takes as its starting point the curious fact that autonomous regional policymaking may be parallel to regional governments pursuing policy similarity. The author proposes that these observations are paradoxical only if sector-specific policy norms are disregarded and when autonomy is considered as the exclusive goal of regional governments. Focusing on common yet under-studied regional situations where a sense of cultural or historical distinctiveness is not readily apparent, if at all, the book argues that in policy sectors where norms of territorial equality have long been dominant, regional governments endorse them as a way to secure or expand their policy capacity when the central state or other policy entrepreneurs challenge it. This results in converging policies. A textured comparative account of educational policymaking in German Länder and French conseils régionaux over three decades forms the backbone of this analysis of policymaking in ordinary regions. Claire Dupuy is Professor of Comparative Politics at ISPOLE, University of Louvain, Belgium |
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2.1.3 Support for Private Education and Free Textbooks: Cases of Party Politicization? |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Education and state -- France
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Education and state -- Germany.
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Education and state
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France
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Germany
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3030408345 |
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9783030408343 |
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