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Soft Governance, International Organizations and Education Policy Convergence

Comparing PISA and the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes

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Authors:
  1. Tonia Bieber

    1. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Transformations of the State (TRST)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Framing Soft Governance, Education, and Convergence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Education in Transition: An Empirical Puzzle

      • Tonia Bieber
      Pages 3-24

    3. Measuring Convergence in Education Policy

      • Tonia Bieber
      Pages 25-43

    4. Soft Governance and Voluntary Policy Convergence: A Theoretical Framework

      • Tonia Bieber
      Pages 45-81

    5. Education Policy-Making in Switzerland: Origins and Trends

      • Tonia Bieber
      Pages 83-110

  4. Comparative Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Explaining Convergence in Education Policy

      • Tonia Bieber
      Pages 215-241

    3. Soft Governance in Education: Lessons and Prospects

      • Tonia Bieber
      Pages 243-257

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 259-273
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This book examines the extent to which international organizations have shaped reforms in education and training in federalist countries with regards to policy convergence. In advanced democracies, international organizations have become increasingly influential in government activity. This also applies to policy fields that have traditionally been nearly exclusively regulated by the nation-state. How strong is their influence in policy fields like education where they rely on purely soft governance to stimulate national policies? From a political science perspective, three major initiatives are analyzed: the OECD’s PISA study, the European Bologna process and the European Union’s Copenhagen process. Within a few years, these initiatives have contributed to deep transformations within the education arena. This book elucidates the processes in which nation-states comply with these initiatives, using the examples of Switzerland and the United States. 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Tonia Bieber

About the author

Tonia Bieber is Policy Advisor to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Before, she was Senior Researcher at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe ‘Transformative Power of Europe’ of Otto-Suhr-Institute, Free University of Berlin, and at the Collaborative Research Center ‘Transformations of the State’, University of Bremen, Germany. She has published on multilevel governance, international organizations, European integration in education and training policies, and policy convergence. She is the co-editor of Shaping Inequalities: Welfare State Transformation and its Outcomes.

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