Anja Giudici is Lecturer in Education at Cardiff University. Her work revolves around the politics and history of education, with a particular focus on how professional and partisan logics interact in shaping education systems in democracies.Oliver Gruber is Associated Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. His research and teaching is focused on party politics, in particular radical right parties and populism, as well as migration and education policy, with a focus on the Austrian political system and the EU.Philipp Schnell serves as the Director of the Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Education and Training (öibf) and teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. His research focuses on educational inequalities, vocational education, and education policies, both within Austria and from a comparative, international perspective.

• Introduction: Far-right parties and the politics of education in Europe 1. Educational policy agenda, ideological transformation and radical right populism: the case of the education-identity nexus of the Northern League in Italy, 1994-2018 2. Sticking to the core or going beyond? The Austrian freedom party’s educational approach in a longitudinal perspective 3. For things to remain the same, everything must change? Studying National front’s and National rally’s platforms on education 5. No school of hard knocks: education policies and ideologies of Slovak far-right parties 6. Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland

Anja Giudici is Lecturer in Education at Cardiff University. Her work revolves around the politics and history of education, with a particular focus on how professional and partisan logics interact in shaping education systems in democracies.Oliver Gruber is Associated Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. His research and teaching is focused on party politics, in particular radical right parties and populism, as well as migration and education policy, with a focus on the Austrian political system and the EU.Philipp Schnell serves as the Director of the Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Education and Training (öibf) and teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. His research focuses on educational inequalities, vocational education, and education policies, both within Austria and from a comparative, international perspective.

• Introduction: Far-right parties and the politics of education in Europe 1. Educational policy agenda, ideological transformation and radical right populism: the case of the education-identity nexus of the Northern League in Italy, 1994-2018 2. Sticking to the core or going beyond? The Austrian freedom party’s educational approach in a longitudinal perspective 3. For things to remain the same, everything must change? Studying National front’s and National rally’s platforms on education 5. No school of hard knocks: education policies and ideologies of Slovak far-right parties 6. Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland

Anja Giudici is Lecturer in Education at Cardiff University. Her work revolves around the politics and history of education, with a particular focus on how professional and partisan logics interact in shaping education systems in democracies.Oliver Gruber is Associated Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. His research and teaching is focused on party politics, in particular radical right parties and populism, as well as migration and education policy, with a focus on the Austrian political system and the EU.Philipp Schnell serves as the Director of the Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Education and Training (öibf) and teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. His research focuses on educational inequalities, vocational education, and education policies, both within Austria and from a comparative, international perspective.

• Introduction: Far-right parties and the politics of education in Europe 1. Educational policy agenda, ideological transformation and radical right populism: the case of the education-identity nexus of the Northern League in Italy, 1994-2018 2. Sticking to the core or going beyond? The Austrian freedom party’s educational approach in a longitudinal perspective 3. For things to remain the same, everything must change? Studying National front’s and National rally’s platforms on education 5. No school of hard knocks: education policies and ideologies of Slovak far-right parties 6. Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland