The Comparative Politics of Education

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).

'This edited volume is a truly exceptional piece of scholarship, bringing together leading scholars in the comparative study of education. The individual chapters provide an in-depth analytical perspective on education reforms in different countries both in the [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] and beyond. Terry M. Moe and Susanne Wiborg have masterfully managed to integrate the individual chapters into an overarching theoretical framework. In doing so, their contribution will have a lasting and significant impact on the agenda of the growing research field of the comparative study of the politics of education.' Marius R. Busemeyer, University of Konstanz, Germany

• 1. Introduction; 2. Teachers unions in the United States: the politics of blocking Terry Moe; 3. Teachers unions in England: the end is nigh? Susanne Wiborg; 4. Teachers unions in France: making fundamental reform an impossible quest? Michael Dobbins; 5. Teachers unions in Germany: fragmented competitors Rita Nikolai, Kendra Briken and Dennis Niemann; 6. Teachers unions in the Nordic countries: solidarity and the politics of self interest Susanne Wiborg; 7. Teachers unions in Japan: the frustration of permanent opposition Robert Aspinall; 8. Teachers unions in Mexico: the politics of patronage Christopher Chambers-Ju and Leslie Finger; 9. Teachers unions in India: diverse, powerful, and coercive Tara Beteille, Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Mohd Muzammil; 10. The comparative politics of education: teachers unions and education systems across the world Terry Moe.