Shaping Policy Agendas

Edited by David Dolowitz, Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool, UK, Magdaléna Hadjiisky, Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Romuald Normand, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Université de Strasbourg, France

Contents:

Foreword xi
Leslie A. Pal

1 Introduction 1
David Dolowitz, Magdaléna Hadjiisky and Romuald Normand
2 Diffusing marketization: competition, synergies, and repartition of tasks in the global agri-food policy field 16
Eve Fouilleux
3 Neoliberalism and the ‘think-tank image’ fallacy: a sociological exploration of homologies of structuration inside the OECD, EU, and governments 36
Vincent Gayon
4 Beyond the standardization versus contextualization debate: the role of the OECD in European education governance 57
Sotiria Grek
5 Transnational care chains as seen by the OECD, the World Bank, and the IOM 77
Rianne Mahon
6 The power of ‘soft skills’: the role of the OECD in the shaping of a new cognitive motive in the global agora of education 95
Sarah Maire
7 The OECD’s rules and standards for the testing and assessment of chemicals 116
Annie Martin
8 Knowledge battles at the World Bank: how institutional activists introduced the norm of participation into international development policy 137
Olivier Nay
9 Walking the Washington talk? An analysis of the World Bank’s policy-practice disjuncture in education 162
Clara Fontdevila and Antoni Verger
10 Conclusion 183
David Dolowitz, Magdaléna Hadjiisky and Romuald Normand
Epistocracy: an afterword on global policy and ‘rule by the wise’ 194
Diane Stone

Bibliography 200

Index 231