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Explaining public education expenditure in OECD nations
Author(s) -
CASTLES FRANCIS G.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1989.tb00202.x
Subject(s) - welfare , public expenditure , variation (astronomy) , economics , public education , demographic economics , public economics , multivariate analysis , resource (disambiguation) , development economics , political science , economic growth , public finance , macroeconomics , market economy , medicine , computer network , physics , astrophysics , computer science
. This article seeks to explain cross‐sectional variation in public education expenditure levels and change since 1960. Five possible explanations are located: the incremental push of programme inertia, demographic and related pressures, economic resource growth, the impact of party and the cultural impact of Roman Catholicism. A multivariate analysis demonstrates that educational expenditure is an arena in which monocausal explanations are wholly inappropriate. With the exception of programme inertia, each of the explanations is seen to have an important bearing on this aspect of the people's welfare.