Inequality and the political economy of education: An analysis of individual preferences in OECD countries
Inequality and the political economy of education: An analysis of individual preferences in OECD countries
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不平等与教育政治经济学：经合组织国家个人偏好分析
DOI：
10.1177/0958928712440200
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发表时间：
2012
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3
通讯作者：
Marius R. Busemeyer
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作者：
Marius R. Busemeyer
从政治学的角度研究教育的学术兴趣在过去几年中迅速增加。然而，这些文献侧重于比较国家层面的教育政治，而忽略了从个人偏好及其与宏观背景的相互作用角度分析教育政策的微观基础。本文为解决这一研究差距提供了第一步，对大量经合组织国家的调查数据进行了多层次分析。研究的核心问题是制度背景——在本例中是社会经济和教育不平等——如何塑造个人收入状况与教育支出支持之间的微观联系。研究的核心发现是，这些不平等的不同维度在微观层面上有不同的含义。社会经济不平等的加剧加剧了富人和穷人之间在公共教育投资方面的冲突。相比之下，当接受高等教育的机会受到有效限制时，富人更有可能支持公共教育支出。这是因为更高层次的教育分层确保了进一步的公共教育投资对富人的好处相对大于穷人，而穷人又变得不太愿意支持这种公共支出。
Scholarly interest in the study of education from the perspective of political science has increased rapidly in the last few years. However, the literature focuses on comparing education politics at the country level, neglecting the analysis of micro-level foundations of education policies in terms of individual preferences and their interaction with macro contexts. This paper provides a first step in addressing this research gap, engaging in a multilevel analysis of survey data for a large number of OECD countries. The core research question is how institutional contexts – in this case socio-economic and educational inequalities – shape the micro-level association between the individual income position and support for education spending. The core finding is that these different dimensions of inequality have different implications at the micro level. Higher levels of socio-economic inequality enhance the conflict between the rich and the poor over public investments in education. By contrast, when access to higher levels of education is effectively restricted, the rich are more likely to support public education spending. This is because higher levels of educational stratification ensure that further public investments in education benefit the rich relatively more than the poor, who in turn become less willing to support this kind of public spending.