Agustina S. Paglayan
Democracy and the Politicization of Education
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceChallenging the conventional wisdom that the spread of democracy was a leading driver of the expansion of primary schooling, recent studies show that democratization in fact did not lead to an average increase in primary school enrollment rates. One reason for this null effect is that there was… more →
The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years
Topics: Policy, Politics, and GovernanceBecause primary education is often conceptualized as a pro-poor redistributive policy, a common argument is that democratization increases its provision. But primary education can also serve the goals of autocrats, including redistribution, promoting loyalty, nation-building, and/or… more →