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ABSTRACT
Across OECD countries, education choice is proliferating as parents seek and governments permit choice both inside and outside public education systems. The movement of students out of the common public school, however, varies significantly across jurisdictions and sociodemographic characteristics such as race and class. This variation in individual decision making and macro policy outcomes directs us to theorise about the relationship between parental preferences, government responses, and policy outcomes. We map the interplay between the demand for choice, institutional responses, and policy feedback effects that lead to four major policy outcomes: partially attenuated governance, hyper choice, partial accommodation within the public system, and non-accommodation that leads parents to withdraw from the public education system. We apply this framework to understanding variation in patterns of school choice in Canadian provinces and conclude by outlining some ways in which our framework can be used to understand school choice outcomes cross-nationally.
摘要
在经合组织国家中，由于家长的诉求及政府对于公共教育系统内、外部选择的允许，择校现象正在激增。然而，在不同的司法管辖区域与不同的社会人口特征（如种族和阶层）之间，学生离开公立学校的情况存在显著差异。个人决策和宏观政策结果的这种差异，引导我们将家长偏好、政府回应和政策结果之间的关系进行理论化。我们描绘了选择需求、制度回应和政策反馈效应之间的相互作用，这种作用导致四个主要政策结果：部分弱化治理、过度选择、公共系统内的部分满足，以及不予满足导致家长退出公共教育系统。我们将该框架用于理解加拿大各省择校模式的差异，并在结论部分简要介绍了一些应用该框架理解各国择校结果的方法。
Acknowledgements
This project was funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Fund #435-2016-0629. We are grateful for the excellent research assistance of Adarsh Addepalli, Anoushka Lad, and Katelynn Kowalchuk.
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Notes
1 We use the term ‘partially attenuated’ governance to distinguish our argument from Hackett’s (Citation2019, 240) analysis of attenuation. In her work, attenuation refers to forms of regulation and governance that are quite far removed from the state: either third party and market delivery mechanisms or initiatives funded through tax expenditures that distance the state from the recipient. Fully attenuated governance is similar to what we label hyper choice.
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Salar Asadolahi
Salar Asadolahi Salar is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests include comparative welfare state policy, public opinion, and parties and elections with a particular focus on the politics of right-wing populism. Twitter: @SalarAsadolahi
James Farney
James Farney Jim is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Regina. His primary research interests are Canadian party politics, political institutions, and religion and politics. Twitter: @jim_farney
Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos
Triadafilos (Phil) Triadafilopoulos Phil is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on how immigration and citizenship policies reflect and reconfigure boundaries of national belonging in liberal-democratic states. Twitter: @PhilTriadafilos
Linda A. White
Linda A. White Linda is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her areas of research include comparative welfare states, comparative social and family policy, particularly education, early childhood education and care, and maternity and parental leave; gender and public policy; ideas, norms, and public policy development; and federalism, law and public policy. Twitter: @Linda_A_White