Explores how educational research from a comparative perspective has been instrumental in broadening and testing hypotheses from institutional theory. This book contains theoretical discussions of the impact that comparative research has had on institutional theory and comparative scholarship that tests basic institutional assumptions and trends.

Forward. (John W. Meyer). The Symbiotic Relationship between Empirical Comparative Research on Education and Neo-Institutional Theory. (Alexander W. Wiseman, David P. Baker). Institutional Sequences, Pedagogical Reach, and Comparative Educational Systems. (John G. Richardson). The Theorized Society and Political Action: Effects of Expanded Higher Education on the Polity. (David H. Kamens). Cultural Coexistence: Gender Egalitarianism and Difference in Higher Education. (Karen Bradley). The Institutionalization of Human Rights Education. (David F. Suarez). Rethinking Macro and Meso Levels of New Institutional Analysis: The Case of International Education Corporations. (Scott Davies, Janice Aurini). The Normative Construction of Modern State Systems: Educational Ministries and Laws, 1800-2000. (Jong-Seon Kim). The Changing Nature of Tertiary Education: Neo-Institutional Perspective onto Cross-National Trends in Disciplinary Enrollment, 1965-1995. (Gili S. Drori, Hyeyoung Moon). Parental Involvement and Educational Outcomes: The Significance of Institutional Arrangements of Educational System. (Hyunjoon Park). Institutional Change in Postsocialist Education: The Case of Poland. (Edward F. Bodine). How Status Competition Complicates Institutional Explanations of Higher Educational Expansion: A Caribbean Case Study. (Regina E. Werum, Lauren Rauscher). The Institutionalization of Education in Latin America: Loci of Attraction and Mechanisms of Diffusion. (Jason Beech). Policy Enactment and Adaptation of Community Participation in Education: The Case of Argentina. (M. Fernanda Astiz). Educational Achievement of Immigrant-Origin and Native Students: A Comparative Analysis Informed by Institutional Theory. (Claudia Buchmann, Emilio A. Parrado). From Citizen to Person? Rethinking Education as Incorporation. (Francisco O. Ramirez).