The partisan politics of early childhood education in the German Länder
| Autor: | Lina Seitzl, Marius R. Busemeyer |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Early childhood education
Partisan politics Economic growth Government Public Administration conservative welfare states education partisanship public childcare 05 social sciences Public policy Management Monitoring Policy and Law Grand coalition Gross domestic product language.human_language 0506 political science Original data German Political economy 0502 economics and business ddc:320 050602 political science & public administration Economics language 050207 economics |
| Popis: | This article analyses the role of partisan politics in the recent expansion of early childhood education and care in the German Länder. In contrast to recent work in comparative public policy that often diagnoses a waning of partisan effects, we find broad support for the notion that partisan differences continue to matter in this policy field. The government participation of left-wing parties is positively and significantly associated with changes in public spending on early childhood education, independent of whether this is measured as a percentage of gross domestic product or in terms of per-capita spending. In contrast, left-wing partisanship is not associated with changes in the share of public spending devoted to independent (private) institutions. Coalition status, particularly governing in a Grand Coalition, somewhat mediates these effects. Our empirical analysis is based on the findings from a cross-sectional time-series analysis based on an original data set of spending data for the 16 Länder for the time period between 1992 and 2010. |
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