Understanding education policy design, feedback effects, and policy outcomes in OECD countries
This multidisciplinary research hub links academics in political science, public policy, and education, as well as members of the broader policy community. Our research analyzes change in education governance over time, the politics surrounding school choice, and the impact of school choice policies on citizenship, and political and social inequality
Highlights
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Jim Farney and Clark Banack’s book on the politics of religious schools in Canada
Canadian provinces have evolved divergent ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools. Seeking to understand this peculiar reality, this book articulates the ways in which the provincial governance regimes developed for religious schools have changed over nearly three centuries.
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Rob Vipond's book on multiculturalism in schools
Making a Global City celebrates one of the world’s most multicultural cities while stressing the fact that public schools are a vital tool in integrating and accepting immigrants and children in liberal democracies.
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Ursula Hackett's book on the explosive growth of school vouchers
2021 Best Book Award from the Education Politics & Policy section of the American Political Science Association, and the 2022 Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association (UK).
Areas of Research
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School Governance & System Change
Understanding the influence of faith-based organizations on education policy in Alberta
Social conservatives and party politics in Canada and the United States
Canadian Populism in the era of the United Right
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School Choice
Becoming multicultural: Immigration and the politics of membership in Canada and Germany
Illiberal means to liberal ends? Understanding recent immigrant integration policies in Europe
Making room for Islam in Germany’s public schools
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Citizenship & Integration
Liberalism, group rights and the boundaries of toleration: The case of minority religious schools in Ontario
Must we all be paradigmatic? Social investment policies and liberal welfare states
Sweden’s double decade for Roma inclusion