Ziel des vorliegenden Artikels ist es, zum ersten obige Argumentation einer generellen Kritik zu unterziehen; zum zweiten aber auch ihre mögliche Relevanz für den Fall der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu prüfen. Beides geschieht vor dem Hintergrund der Frage, ob die Sozialisationsfunktion von...

Recent articles of the public choice literature emphasize the socializing role of education in order to explain the widespread practice of publicly run schools. In schools pupils are not only provided with basic skills, e.g. literacy and numeracy, but are also instilled with norms and values....

Abstract: Improving child care and pre-school education is one of the challenging duties of public authorities in Germany. Given the public resources spent on nursery schools, the quantity as well as the quality of early childhood education in Germany is comparatively low. We think that...