Ben Ross Schneider is the Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Chile program. Prior to joining MIT in 2008, Schneider taught at Princeton University and Northwestern University. Schneider's teaching and research interests fall within the general fields of comparative politics, political economy, and Latin American politics. His books include Business Politics and the State in 20th Century Latin America (2004), Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development (2013), Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-Government Relations and the New Developmentalism (2015), and New Order and Progress: Democracy and Development in Brazil (Oxford University Press, 2016). He also has published on topics such as democratization, technocracy, education politics, the developmental state, business groups, industrial policy, and comparative bureaucracy.

Anyone who studies education seriously understands that both the quantity and quality of public educational services provided by various societies and how societies allocate those services among social classes is heavily influenced by politics. In this valuable book, Ben Schneider helps us understand how politics has worked to promote educational reforms in Latin America

• Preface Part I: Theory and Arguments1. Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Education 2. Theorizing on Education Politics: Macro to Micro Part II: Reform Cases3. Bottom-Up Reform in Chile: Electoral Mobilization, Policy Networks, and Civil Society4. From Bottom-up to Top-down in Ecuador5. Top Down Reform: Unions and Technocrats in Colombia and Peru 6.Union Blockage and Clientelist Backlash in Mexico, South Africa, Rio de Janeiro Part III: Comparisons and Conclusions7. Brazil: Innovating in the States8. Parties, Coalitions, and Routes to Technical Education9. Conclusions Appendices (B-E online)A. InterviewsB. Ministers of Education: Technocrats or PoliticiansC. Governors and Parties in Brazil, 1999-2022D. Protests and Demands in Education E. Civil Society in Education BibliographyIndex

Ben Ross Schneider is the Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Chile program. Prior to joining MIT in 2008, Schneider taught at Princeton University and Northwestern University. Schneider's teaching and research interests fall within the general fields of comparative politics, political economy, and Latin American politics. His books include Business Politics and the State in 20th Century Latin America (2004), Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development (2013), Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-Government Relations and the New Developmentalism (2015), and New Order and Progress: Democracy and Development in Brazil (Oxford University Press, 2016). He also has published on topics such as democratization, technocracy, education politics, the developmental state, business groups, industrial policy, and comparative bureaucracy.

Anyone who studies education seriously understands that both the quantity and quality of public educational services provided by various societies and how societies allocate those services among social classes is heavily influenced by politics. In this valuable book, Ben Schneider helps us understand how politics has worked to promote educational reforms in Latin America

• Preface Part I: Theory and Arguments1. Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Education 2. Theorizing on Education Politics: Macro to Micro Part II: Reform Cases3. Bottom-Up Reform in Chile: Electoral Mobilization, Policy Networks, and Civil Society4. From Bottom-up to Top-down in Ecuador5. Top Down Reform: Unions and Technocrats in Colombia and Peru 6.Union Blockage and Clientelist Backlash in Mexico, South Africa, Rio de Janeiro Part III: Comparisons and Conclusions7. Brazil: Innovating in the States8. Parties, Coalitions, and Routes to Technical Education9. Conclusions Appendices (B-E online)A. InterviewsB. Ministers of Education: Technocrats or PoliticiansC. Governors and Parties in Brazil, 1999-2022D. Protests and Demands in Education E. Civil Society in Education BibliographyIndex