The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance The Politics of Tuition Fees and Subsidies in OECD Countries,1945–2015 /

• Main Author: Garritzmann, Julian L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Finance > History.; Political economy.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Higher education.; Education > History.; Higher Education.; Political Economy.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Financial History.; History of Education.

This book analyzes the political economy of higher education finance across a range of OECD countries, exploring why some students pay extortionate tuition fees whilst for others their education is free. What are the redistributional consequences of these different tuition-subsidy systems? Analysing...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Politics of Higher Education Tuition Fees and Subsidies
• Chapter 2. The Four Worlds of Students Finance - A Comparatives Descriptive Overview of Tuition Fees and Subsidies in 33 OECD-Countries
• Chapter 3 'Some Flesh to the Bones' - Illustrative Case Studies of Four Diverse Cases Over Seven Decades
• Chapter 4. What do Parties Want? - Parties' Positions and Issue Emphases on Tuition Fees and Subsidies
• Chapter 5. Testing the Time-Sensitive Partisan Theory in Large-n Analyses: Parties' Impact on the Tuition-Subsidy Regimes of 21 Democracies over Time
• Chapter 6. Individual-Level Attitudes towards Subsidies - How Positive Feedback Effects Prevent (Radical) Change in the Four Worlds of Student Finance
• Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Higher Education Tuition Fees and Subsidies: Conclusion and Outlook.