Comparative perspectives on the role of education in democratization Book

However important the school may be as a vehicle to institutionalize and perpetuate democracy, it has been largely ignored by contemporary scholars of democratization especially in developing and formerly socialist countries. Rather, their focus has been almost exclusively on the political consequences of economic reform programs and on external contexts for political change. This set of two volumes draws on new research as well as established classics in helping to fill the gap and map out useful directions for comparative inquiry on the role of education in democratization.