Making Policy with "Good Ideas": Policy Networks and the "Intellectuals" of New Labour

Autor/inn/en	Ball, Stephen J.; Exley, Sonia
Titel	Making Policy with "Good Ideas": Policy Networks and the "Intellectuals" of New Labour
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 25 (2010) 2, S.151-169 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Social Problems; Public Service; Educational Policy; Politics of Education; Governance; Foreign Countries; Policy Formation; Social Influences; Social Networks; Political Influences; Social Organizations; Social Change; Network Analysis; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social problem; Soziales Problem; Public services; Öffentlicher Sozialdienst; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Educational policy; Education; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Ausland; Politische Betätigung; Sozialer Einfluss; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Sozialer Wandel; Netzplantechnik; Großbritannien
Abstract	The proliferation of policy think tanks and more broadly the rise of "policy networks" can be viewed as indicative of important global transformations in the nature of the state. That is, the emergence of new state modalities, with a shift away from government towards forms of polycentric governance, where policy is produced through multiple agencies and multiple sites of discourse generation. This paper addresses some particular aspects of this shift by focusing on a set of relationships and sites which have had some kind of influence upon the social and educational policies of UK New Labour governments. It has two main concerns. First, focusing on the generation and circulation of some of the key policy "ideas" of New Labour, it maps out a related and overlapping set of policy networks which join-up government, think tanks and some individual interlockers, who "straddle sectors and policy fields and settings". Second, it highlights some of the main discursive elements that flow through these networks, in particular those of innovation and enterprise. They give particular emphasis on the role of "social enterprise" and social entrepreneurs in the modernisation of public service provision and in providing solutions to intractable social problems. (Contains 4 boxes, 4 notes, and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10