Add to ORKGThe rise of mass schooling is an important contributor to modern economic growth. But its form, content, scale and manner of provision are all matters of public policy that are subject to politics. The rise of modern schooling is frequently cast as a product of broadened suffrage and stronger political voice of the masses, which overcame the political opposition from old ruling elites. We investigate this hypothesis, using the case of a school reform undertaken in Imperial Austria in 1869. We show that while landowners were less likely to vote for school modernization than urban and business interests, the strongest opposition came from the rural areas where the suffrage was in fact most numerous. The reform passed in spite of their opposit...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...
The rise of mass schooling is an important contributor to modern economic growth. But its form, cont...
The rise of mass schooling is an important contributor to modern economic growth. But its form, cont...
The rise of mass schooling is an important contributor to modern economic growth. But its form, cont...
The rise of education features prominently in the debate on the sources of modern economic growth. E...
Modern schooling systems arose not only in response to the grassroots demand for marketable human c...
This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-cen...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...
The rise of mass schooling is an important contributor to modern economic growth. But its form, cont...
The rise of mass schooling is an important contributor to modern economic growth. But its form, cont...
The rise of mass schooling is an important contributor to modern economic growth. But its form, cont...
The rise of education features prominently in the debate on the sources of modern economic growth. E...
Modern schooling systems arose not only in response to the grassroots demand for marketable human c...
This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-cen...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
This article explores the main features of the provision, organization and funding of nineteenth cen...