This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western
Europe, namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of
schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of
continuity and change in postwar schooling in Britain and the Federal
Republic Germany, Gregory Baldi seeks to contribute to more general
understandings of education's place in the welfare state, the
development of social institutions, and the relationship between
material and ideational factors in shaping political outcomes over time.