This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of its analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The authors focus on the governance of education and demonstrate how education can be explored systematically from a variety of political science perspectives: comparative politics, public policy analysis and public administration, international relations, and political theory.By conceptualizing changing institutional settings, new actors' constellations, horizontal modes of interaction and public-private regulatory mechanisms from a governance perspective, this volume links a neglected policy field with the future role of the state. It also offers new insights into the reforms that are currently taking place in the field of education, by expanding the attention from the dimension of policy to politics and polity and underlines questions that deal not merely with the outcomes of education, but with how education politics work. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of education, political science, sociology and economics.