The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning

This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries. It deploys a new conceptual framework to show how the type of political settlement shaptes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes.

Sam Hickey, Professor of Politics and Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK,Naomi Hossain, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development in the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, and Research Director of the DFID-UK-funded Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre. His recent work on the politics of development has been published in African Affairs, Journal of Development Studies, and World Development. He has edited or co-edited six collections, including The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2015, with Kunal Sen and Badru Bukenya).


Naomi Hossain is a political sociologist and Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on the state-society relations that make pro-poor development possible, with a focus on the provision of food security, mass education, and social protection. She is the author of The Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh's Unexpected Success (OUP, 2017).