Occasional Paper No. 18 National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education Teachers College, Columbia University Political Preferences and the Privatization of Education: Evidence from the UK
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This paper investigates the determinants of political support for the privatization of education in the UK. The electorate is assumed to apply cost-benefit calculations, depending on their circumstances; a set of criteria for evaluating educational reforms is linked to individual voters' characteristics. It is then possible to identify which voters would oppose or advocate educational reforms such as greater school competition, ability selection and promotion of private schooling. Support for these reforms is then estimated using the British Educational Panel Survey (1997). The results indicate that political preferences largely reflect the anticipated personal costs and benefits from educational reforms. Those with children are in favour of reforms to raise school competition; those working in the education sector are against such reform. Those with higher anticipated tax liabilities favour privatization and support private schooling. Overall, however, educational reforms toward privatization received only minority support in Britain as of 1997. March 2001 Clive R. Belfield. * The author acknowledges the Data Archive at the University of Essex as the distributor of the data. The Data Archive does not bear any responsibility for the author’s analysis and interpretations of the data. Clive Belfield is the Assistant Director for Research at the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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