Department of Economics and Business - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Title:: Asessing public policies. The case of education in Europe and the interaction between personal and institutional factors
Authors:: Anna Cuxart and Clara Riba
Date:: January 2007
Abstract:: The paper deals with the comparative study of European citizens’ satisfaction with the state of education in their respective countries. Individual and contextual effects are tested applying multilevel analysis. The results show that educational public policies (level of decentralization, degree of comprehensiveness and public spending) as well as the students’ social environment (socioeconomic and cultural status) have a sound impact on the opinions about the state of education.
Keywords:: Education, public opinion, public policies, multilevel analysis, comparative studies, European Social Survey
JEL codes:: C42
Published in:: Torcal, Mariano (ed.). La ciudadanÃa europea en el siglo XXI. Estudio comparado de sus actitudes, opiniÃ³n pÃºblica y comportamiento polÃticos. 1 ed. CIS, Madrid, 2010, pp. 85-103
With the title:
Las polÃticas y la formaciÃ³n de la opiniÃ³n pÃºblica. La educaciÃ³n en Europa.

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