Think tanks, policy networks and education governance: The rising of new intra-national spaces of policy in Portugal

This article focuses on the role of think tanks in education governance in Portugal, We are interested in contributing to a literature that discusses the emergence of new intra-national spaces of policy, and examines how the actors operating in those spaces work and influence education policy. This...

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Main Author: Viseu, Sofia (author)
Other Authors: Carvalho, Luís Miguel (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35228
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/35228
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Summary:This article focuses on the role of think tanks in education governance in Portugal, We are interested in contributing to a literature that discusses the emergence of new intra-national spaces of policy, and examines how the actors operating in those spaces work and influence education policy. This article is based on an empirical study conducted by EDULOG, a think tank for education that has been operating since 2015. We mapped EDULOG’s activities, the information generation activities, organizations, and actors connected to EDULOG using a network ethnography and social network analysis. This study shows that a) this organization articulated a network of actors from different sectors, including the academy, business and government agencies; and b) EDULOG acts as a space of social and cognitive intermediation, committed to developing knowledge geared towards policy decision and problem solving.