The advent of mass schooling played a pivotal role in European societies of the later
nineteenth century, transforming rural peasants into national citizens. The late-twentieth …

This book is the product of research and reflection over more than three de cades. Sources
in our earlier work are cited at appropriate places in the text. Our progress has also been …

This paper investigates changes in the promissory visions articulated in education reforms
around the world. We use structural topic modeling to inductively analyze the content of …

In the past decade, before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, rates of childhood
vaccination against diseases such as measles, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus declined …

The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in government restrictions on
foreign funding to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Often in the name of defending …

Over the past three decades, Meyer, Jepperson, and colleagues have contributed to the
development of one of the leading approaches in social theory, by analyzing the cultural …

Cross-national analyses of university curricula are rare, particularly with a focus on
internationalization, commonly studied as impacting higher education through the mobility of …

Since post-World War II and especially throughout the 1990s, the globalization of a liberal
international order propelled a wave of education reforms around the world. However …

The global neoliberal era has sparked a burgeoning literature. Most accounts emphasize
the political economy of the period, focusing on global markets and privatization. By contrast …

This article analyzes academic freedom worldwide with newly available cross-national data.
The literature principally addresses impingements on academic freedom arising from …