World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980

摘要: Newly available enrollment data for over 120 countries the period 1870-1980 are used to examine theories of mass educational expansion. Event-history analyses indicate that systems appeared at a steady rate before 1940s and sharply increased after 1950. Pooled panel regressions show expansion education, once formed, followed an S-shaped diffusion pattern 1940, continuing with added force later. Expansion is endemic in system. National variation exists; indications national modernization or structural location world society, however, have only modest effects. It seems education spreads organized politically as nation-states candidate states. Rates appearance accelerated World War II, intensification nation-state model centrality this model.