The Making of a Liberal Education: Political Economy of the Austrian School Reform, 1865 – 1880
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Tomas Cvrcek, University College London, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze; Miroslav Zajicek, Center for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies
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Project Citation:
Cvrcek, Tomas, and Zajicek, Miroslav. The Making of a Liberal Education: Political Economy of the Austrian School Reform, 1865 – 1880. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-07-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E104780V1
Project Description
Summary:
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The 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. 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 large landowners were mildly in favor of
school modernization, albeit less 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 opposition but,
interestingly, post-reform developments suggest that passive resistance to it
continued in the countryside in spite of the alleged benefits that education was
billed to bring the masses.
Funding Sources:
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Grantova agentura České republiky (15-16481S);
Neuron, Nadační fond na podporu vědy (Neuron Impuls 14/2015)
Scope of Project
Geographic Coverage:
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Imperial Austria
Time Period(s):
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1865 – 1880
Collection Date(s):
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1865 – 1880
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