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This book provides new evidence on teachers unions and their political activities across nations, and offers a foundation for a comparative politics of education.
About the author
Terry M. Moe is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, California and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has written extensively on the presidency, public bureaucracy, and the American political system, as well as the theory of political institutions more generally. He has also written extensively on the politics of education and the role of power and special interests in shaping education systems. His books include Relic (2016, with William Howell), Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools (2011), and Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (1990, with John Chubb).Susanne Wiborg is Reader in Education at University College London Institute of Education, member of the Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES), and leader of the MA programme in Comparative Education at University College London. She has published widely on comparative history of education, focusing particularly on the policy and politics in secondary education in Scandinavia and Europe. She is the author of Education and Social Integration: Comprehensive Schooling in Europe (2009).
Summary
This book speaks to political scientists, economists, sociologists and education researchers about the politics of education across nations, focusing on the power of teachers unions and their consequences for education reform. Policymakers will find it valuable for the enlightening new evidence it reveals about education and its politics worldwide.
