Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and
disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the …

Abstract 'Raising aspirations' for education among young people in low socioeconomic
regions has become a widespread policy prescription for increasing human capital …

This paper examines the outstanding performance of Shanghai, China on PISA 2009 and its
effects on other national systems and within the global education policy field. The OECD's …

Globalizing Educational Accountabilities analyzes the influence that international and
national testing and accountability regimes have on educational policy reform efforts in …

There is a changed 'structure of feeling'emerging in higher education systems, particularly in
OECD nations, in response to changed social, cultural and economic arrangements. Taking …

Whereas many writers and scholars interested in the field of social democracy have focused
on factors such as the role of economic globalization and electoral pressures, Ashley …

Aspiration for higher education (HE) is no longer a matter solely for students and their
families. With OECD nations seeking to position themselves more competitively in the global …

Introduction Local governance: The State of the Debate The trend from government to
governance seems now to be a fact of life for mostcommentators. In Considine's phrase, we …

This accessible work provides a 'political sociology'of welfare states in industrial societies,
with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and …

A novel brand of laissez-faire that lay outside the political mainstream in the early postwar
years was broadly hailed at the dawn of the twenty-first century as the common sense of a …