ABSTRACT
Traditionally, education was not in the centre of political science while political science was not in the centre of education research. This is surprising given the important role of education for the making and transformation of modern nation-states. It is even more surprising given the manifold perspectives recent political reform of education as a field of real-life experiment has to offer for the study of shifts in governance and the transformation of the nation-state. New windows of opportunity for a more fruitful relationship between political science and educational research have emerged. It is thus more than timely to overcome what the editors of this volume call ‘the neglected relationship between education and political science’.
