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Policy actors: doing policy work in schools

Discourse, 2011
This paper considers the ‘policy work’ of teacher actors in schools. It focuses on the ‘problem of meaning’ and offers a typology of roles and positions through which teachers engage with policy and with which policies get ‘enacted’. It argues that ‘policy work’ is made up of a set of complex and differentiated activities which involve both creative ...
Stephen J Ball   +2 more
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Ideas and actors in policy processes: where is the interaction?

open access: yesPolicy Studies, 2015
Several influential frameworks in the field of policy analysis explicitly acknowledge that the role of ideas is as important as the role of actors in analyzing and understanding policy and policy change.
Josefina Erikson
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Management consultants as policy actors

2018
Contributions to the topic of consultants and public policy in France are often unbalanced and consultants are typically analysed as a secondary subject of wider studies. Drawing on the sociology of elites, this chapter argues that their circulation between the private and the public spheres invites us to reconsider the so-called French resistance to ...
Gervais, Julie, Pierru, Frédéric
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Policy actors/policy subjects

Journal of Education Policy, 2015
Policy research is often done with a focus on texts, principles and practices, and little attention is given to the formative role of actors in the policy process.
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Policy Analysis In Spain: Actors And Institutions

2022
This chapter explains the main features of policy analysis in Spain. Considering the contributions of this edited volume, it describes how policy actors generate and share technical and political information to address social, economic, and political issues across different institutional frameworks, policy areas, and time.
Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Jacint Jordana
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Scholars as Policy Actors

American Educational Research Journal, 2012
Courts, students are told, will protect minorities’ legal rights against popular sentiment and political pressure. But courts can be expected to protect rights only within boundaries shaped in part by popular and political opinion. This suggests that litigation outcomes regarding education rights issues will depend on shifting the policymaking context ...
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The Regulation of Technology: Policy Tools and Policy Actors

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Academics and practitioners have been using the idiom of a 'toolkit' or 'toolbox' for governance regulatory policy, both in general and with specific application to controlling the invasive effects of technologies on human values. With regard to the latter, the regulatory instruments are now usually considered mainly to be laws and a large variety of ...
Charles D. Raab, Paul De Hert
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