The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society Public Funding and the Regulation of Popular Education in Sweden, 1870–1991 /

• Main Authors: Berg, Anne (Author), Edquist, Samuel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education > Economic aspects.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education and state.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Education Policy.; Sociology of Education.; Education Economics.

This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society. Although this idea is extremely common in modern capitalist societies, here it is turned on its head through a study of the ways in which public funding from the 1870s to the 1990s has enabled an...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Capitalist States and Civil Societies
• Chapter 2: Autonomisation, or, Governing the Evolution of Freedom
• Chapter 3: Independent yet Functional and Rational
• Chapter 4: Autonomisation and Bureaucratisation in the Welfare State Era
• Chapter 5: Designing Popular Education
• Chapter 6: Conclusion.