From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The

From the Ballot to the Blackboard provides the first comprehensive account of the political economy of education spending across the developed and developing world. The book demonstrates how political forces like democracy and political partisanship and economic factors like globalization deeply impact the choices made by voters, parties, and leaders in financing education. The argument is developed through three stories that track the historical development of education: first, its original expansion from the elite to the masses; second, the partisan politics of education in industrialized states; and third, the politics of higher education. The book uses a variety of complementary methods to demonstrate the importance of redistributive political motivations in explaining education policy, including formal modeling, statistical analysis of survey data and both sub-national and cross-national data, and historical case analyses of countries including the Philippines, India, Malaysia, England, Sweden, and Germany.

List of Tables	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
The Redistributive Political Economy of Education	p. 1
Two Puzzles, Two Insights	p. 1
The Argument of This Book	p. 5
The Theoretical Debate over Education	p. 11
Three Stories about Education	p. 16
The Expansion of Education to the Masses: Theory and Data	p. 20
Introduction: Two Paths to Education?	p. 20
Variation in Education Spending	p. 23
A Redistributive Theory of Education Expansion	p. 25
A Simple Model of Education Expansion	p. 31
The Empirical Analysis of Expansion	p. 45
Extensions: Disaggregating Political Regimes and Education	p. 61
Conclusion	p. 71
The Expansion of Education: Historical Evidence	p. 72
Introduction	p. 72
The Philippines: Political Volatility, Economic Instability, and Education	p. 75
India and Malaysia: Comparing Two Educational Puzzles	p. 83
East Asia and Latin America: Rethinking the Development Story	p. 98
Dual Shocks: Southern Europe Joins the European Union	p. 111
Conclusions	p. 118
The Partisan Politics of Education	p. 119
Introduction	p. 119
A Partisan Model of Education Spending	p. 121
Voter Preferences over Education	p. 129
Party Preferences over Education	p. 136
Deriving Policy Outcomes	p. 143
Electoral Institutions and Education Policy	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 163
High Politics in Higher Education	p. 164
Introduction	p. 164
Modeling the Trilemma in Higher Education	p. 166
Empirical Analysis of the Trilemma	p. 180
Historical Analysis of the Trilemma	p. 196
Higher Education in the U.S. States	p. 208
Conclusion	p. 217
Appendix to Chapter 5: Modeling Preferences over Higher Education	p. 218
Conclusion	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 245
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From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Political Economy of Education

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