The Politics of Public Education in Segregated Societies: How Local Politics Affects Education in Brazil and the United States

• In Event: Politics of Education in the Developing World

Brief Overview

I use the cases of Brazil and the US to analyze ways in which citizens demand improvements in public schooling, particularly in local contexts of deep socioeconomic, geographic, and racial divides that condition citizens’ access to government.

Author

• Elizabeth Kaknes, Marist College