In education policy, as in many other policy fields, well-designed policy reforms may fail to get enacted because policymakers may suddenly become confronted with a public backlash against their reform agenda. Thus, understanding the dynamics of public opinion is important in order to be able to...

Written from an Australian perspective, this book explores previous outside policy interest in the Nordic nations and shows the lessons which the English-speaking world, in particular, can learn from the achievements of the four main Nordic European nations