Abstract
Having once been a traditional domain of the nation state, the political responsibility for education is now increasingly dispersed between regional, national, and international, as well as public and private, actors. It is the aim of this chapter to shed light on the territorial and modal dispersion of national education policy networks by means of a systematic network analytical description. The central research question therefore is how the interactions and coalitions between international and national, private and public, actors have changed (both qualitatively and quantitatively) within the last decade, thus to account for changes in national education policymaking. The descriptive enterprise refers to four case studies, that is, Germany, Switzerland, England, and New Zealand, which will subsequently be put in a synoptic and comparative perspective. Drawing from pair-comparisons, the explanatory aim of this chapter is to study the influence of international organizations on national education policymaking and the capacity of national veto players to cope with that interference as determinants of change in national education policymaking.
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Nagel, AK. (2010). Comparing Education Policy Networks. In: Martens, K., Nagel, AK., Windzio, M., Weymann, A. (eds) Transformation of Education Policy. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281295_9
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