Expansion and Structural Change by Windolf, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 Educational Expansion as Secular Process

1.1 Time Series in Comparison 1.2 Competing Theories of Educational Expansion 1.3 Expansion as a Cyclical Process 1.4 Time-Series Analysis 1.5 Educational Expansion and Choice of Academic Discipline

2 Educational Expansion and Social Background

3 The Opposition to Educational Expansion

3.1 Unemployed University Graduates During the Depression 3.2 Countermeasures I: Prologue 3.3 Countermeasures II: The Hour of the Radicals

4 Institutional and Social Differentiation in Higher Education

5 From Patronage to Meritocracy

5.1 Meritocracy and Educational Expansion 5.2 Symbiotic Relationships 5.3 The Spoils System: Domination of the Bureaucracy by Political Parties 5.4 The Grandes Écoles and Government Bureaucracy in France 5.5 The Crisis of the Prussian Bureaucracy 5.6 The Japanese Examination System

6 Expansion in Higher Education 1960-1990

7 Cyclical Variations in Higher Education

7.1 Long Cycles 7.2 Higher Education and the Business Cycle: Independence or Interrelationship? 7.3 Trend, Cycle, and Chance 7.4 Results of Spectral Analysis 7.5 Variation of the Filter 7.6 The Strength of Spectral Analysis Appendix to Chapter 7

8 Conclusions

8.1 Who Benefited by Educational Expansion? 8.2 The Circulation of Elites 8.3 Processes of Social Closure 8.4 What Has Changed?

Notes Appendix I: Sources Appendix II: Enrollment Rates in Higher Education 1850-1992 References Index About the Book and Author