Cover -- The Study of Educational Politics -- Copyright -- Contents -- A List of Editors and Contributors -- Foreword to The Study of Educational Politics -- Introduction and overview -- 1. Values: the 'What?' of the politics of education -- 2. The politics of education: from political science to multi-disciplinary inquiry -- 3. The crucible of democracy: the local arena -- 4. State policy-making and school reform: influences and influential -- 5. Politics of education at the federal level -- 6. The international arena: the Global Village -- 7. Policy analysis and the study of the politics of education -- 8. Rational choice theory and the politics of education: promise and limitations -- 9. The micropolitics of education: mapping the multiple dimensions of power relations in school polities -- 10. Rethinking the public and private spheres: feminist and cultural studies perspectives on the politics of education -- 11. Making the politics of education even more interesting -- 12. Educational politics and policy: and the game goes on -- Index.