Converging Regional Education Policy in France and Germany

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Regional Policymaking and Policy Divergence -- 1 Two Questions -- 2 Regions and Their Policy Capacity -- 2.1 Regional Policy Capacity -- 2.2 The Argument -- 2.3 A Relational and Process-Based Approach to Regional Policymaking -- 3 A Comparison of Regional Education Policy in France and Germany Over Time -- 3.1 The Research Design -- 3.2 Case Selection -- 3.3 Data Collection -- 3.4 Data Analysis -- 4 Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The State, an Absent Guardian of Territorial Equality -- 1 The French State: An Inattentive Guardian of Territorial Equality in Education -- 1.1 State Blindness to Diverging Policy Outputs Before Decentralization -- 1.1.1 Territorially Diverging State Educational Policy Outputs -- 1.1.2 The Tamed Jacobinism in Education -- 1.1.3 The Centrality of Social Equality at School and the "Myopia" to Territorial Inequalities -- 1.2 A State Selective in Its Interventions -- 1.2.1 The Ministry of Education's Opposition to the Decentralization Project -- 1.2.2 The State's Voluntary Withdrawal from Regional Property Policies -- 1.2.3 State Actors' Variable Capacity to Influence Regional Teaching Material Policy -- 1.2.4 The State's Lack of Knowledge About Regional Pedagogical Support Programmes -- 2 The German Federal Government: A Guardian of "Equal Living Conditions" Kept at a Distance from Regional Policies -- 2.1 The Federal Government's Marginal Position and Minimal Regional Coordination -- 2.1.1 The Bund's Peripheral Institutional Foundations -- 2.1.2 The Minimal Coordination of Regional Policies in the 1950s and 1960s -- 2.2 After 1969, Intermittently Strong Mobilizations Countered by the Regions -- 2.2.1 The Bund's School Planning Responsibility and Its Limits -- 2.2.2 Securing a Review of the Division of Educational Responsibilities (1978).