Centre-right parties and post-war secondary education

Giudici, Anja, Gingrich, Jane, Chevalier, Tom and Haslberger, Matthias 2023. Centre-right parties and post-war secondary education. Comparative Politics 55 (2) , pp. 193-218. 10.5129/001041523X16570701392481

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Abstract

The massification of secondary schooling constitutes the key educational project of the first post-war period. However, the resulting educational structures differed in terms of streaming and standardization. Despite their historical opposition to such expansion, center-right parties contributed to shaping these reforms. They generally opposed standardization because their distributive strategy rested on support from elites and middle classes. However, their stance on streaming varied. Centre-right parties supported streaming when they were linked to teachers and private providers who opposed comprehensive reforms, but supported de-streaming where such groups aligned with the left. This article shows how center-right parties in Bavaria, France, and Italy, with common partisan distributive aims, introduced varied public service reforms following from their links to different vested producers. It argues that theorizing such reforms requires considering both distributive and productive environments.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LA History of education
Publisher:	City University of New York
ISSN:	0010-4159
Funders:	European Research Council
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	2 September 2024
Date of Acceptance:	4 March 2022
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2024 05:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171746

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