The Education of Nations: How the Political Organization of the Poor, Not Democracy, Led Governments to Invest in Mass Education

by Stephen Kosack

Book Overview

Mass education is vital to sustainable development, particularly in the information age. In The Education of Nations, Stephen Kosack provides a framework for understanding when a government will invest in quality mass education or concentrate on higher education restricted to elites. Drawing on detailed evidence from more than five decades in Taiwan, Ghana, and Brazil - three countries with little in common - Kosack demonstrates that two conditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199841675
• ISBN13: 9780199841677
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"