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This volume provides case studies as well as thematic studies on selected aspects of privatisation and school choice in education from a wide range of countries around the globe. Read in conjunction, they make clear that privatisation and marketization (with its central component school choice) are not phenomena that are restricted to just a few national contexts. Rather, they constitute a global trend.
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It has been argued (e.g. by Weiß 2001) that speaking of “markets” in education is misleading since markets in education typically lack certain defining characteristics of markets (such as a fully developed price mechanism) and “marketization” in education often merely means the introduction of competition between schools (70–71). For this reason, Weiß (2001) speaks of “quasi-markets”. While we agree with Weiß that “quasi-markets” is the more accurate term, for the sake of readability we will continue to use the term “marketization” rather than “quasi-marketization”.
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This is probably true to a lesser degree in the case of marketization.
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Waldow, F., Falkenberg, K., Rothe, K. (2017). A Comparative Panorama of Privatisation and School Choice in Education: Concluding Remarks. In: Koinzer, T., Nikolai, R., Waldow, F. (eds) Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17104-9_14
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