This article first offers a survey of what has become an area of increasing interest in higher
education: the rise of the so-called 'student-consumer'. This has been linked in part to the …

Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the
perspective of comparative welfare state research. Highlighting the striking similarities …

Austria, Germany, and Switzerland are increasingly relying on hybridization at the nexus of
vocational training and higher education to increase permeability and reform their highly …

This article explores the changing character and consequences of state authorities' evolving
relationships with universities in the United States, Germany, and Norway—typical cases for …

Education is crucially important for later outcomes but has received limited attention in
comparative research on welfare states. In light of this, we present an exploratory analysis of …

Governments pursue their goals by adopting various mixes of policy instruments. This article
proposes a specific operationalisation of these mixes and applies it to the analysis of …

Using new research on higher education in the UK, Canada, Chile and Italy, this rigorous
comparative study investigates key episodes of student protests against neoliberal policies …

This thematic issue introduces the multifaceted nature of contemporary public policy–its
multi-level, multi-actor and multi-issue features–using the case of higher education policies …

This study examines the impact of post-secondary education on the well-being of
Europeans, comparing single-item hedonic and multi-dimensional eudaimonic models of …

Recent years have witnessed an increasing scholarly interest in the study of education,
training, and skill formation from a comparative political economy perspective. The purpose …