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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2013
      January 2006
      ISBN:
      9781139052252
      9780521846653
      9780521609135
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL052184665X
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.383kg, 186 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.267kg, 186 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics and Mathematical Methods, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Econometric Society Monographs (40)
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics and Mathematical Methods, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Econometric Society Monographs (40)
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    Many believe that equality of opportunity will be achieved when the prospects of children no longer depend upon the wealth and education of their parents. The institution through which the link between child and parental prospects may be weakened is public education. Many also believe that democracy is the political institution that will bring about justice. This study, first published in 2006, asks whether democracy, modeled as competition between political parties that represent different interests in the polity, will result in educational funding policies that will, at least eventually, produce citizens who have equal capacities (human capital), thus breaking the link between family background and child prospects. In other words, will democracy engender, through the educational finance policies it produces, a state of equal opportunity in the long run?

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