A wide-ranging examination of how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in
post-industrial societies. Not all countries are unequal in the same ways or to the same …

Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of
Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of …

Do political parties approach education with different social policy aims? We argue that
while parties have adopted a common language of equality as an aim of education, they …

Educational structures do not only have pedagogical implications; by defining and ranking
categories of teaching and learning, and by assigning individuals to these categories, they …

Formal education shapes the distribution of opportunities and cultural profile of European
societies. Political parties, in turn, play a key role in shaping formal education. Focusing …

This article investigates the failure of introducing comprehensive schooling in Austria, one of
few 'conservative'outliers in the European post-war reform trend where early selection …

Woran scheiterte die flächendeckende Einführung der Gesamtschule in Deutschland? Und
wieso gelang sie in Norwegen? Diese Fragen werden hier historisch-soziologisch …

Zusammenfassung Autoritarismus, Nativismus und die Ablehnung liberaler oder
demokratischer Prinzipien kennzeichnen die Ideologie zeitgenössischer rechtsextremer und …

The quantitative debate of the past five decades about determinants of welfare state
development has been carried out between proponents of three different theoretical …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This report summarizes and integrates all findings from
ISOTIS Working Package 1–Inequality at various stages of the educational career. Inequality …