A

academies 74, 146, 173
academy trusts 91, 131
acclimatisation 76
accountability 30, 44, 76, 116, 131, 153
accountability regimes 170, 182, 201
activism 11–12
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) 12–14, 25, 26, 43, 153, 154
Adams, B.E. 93
adaptation 76, 83, 122
Adhikary, R.W. 162, 213
adjectival terms 5–6
adult education 59
advocacy 14–16, 36, 141, 195, 200
critical 164
advocacy coalition framework (ACF) 37
advocacy groups 33
affect 16–17, 119
affective critique 17
affirmative critique 17, 47
Afrocentric Alternative School, Toronto 91
agency 13, 101, 194
agenda-setting 15, 53, 54, 83–84, 140–141, 142
Ahmed, S. 16
AIDS epidemic 192
Aikens, K. 86, 87
algorithm regulation / algorithmic regulation 66, 68
algorithms 68
alignment 17–19, 83, 137, 138
Amiel, M. 15
analytical borrowing research 32
Anderson, B. 38
Anderson, K.T. 88–89
Andrews, M. 179
anthropocentrism see human-centrism
anthropology 19–21
apparatus see dispositif
Apple, M.W. 12
applied borrowing research 32
archaeology 21–23
archives 21, 22
Argentina 187
artefacts 23–25, 95, 143
artificial intelligence 29, 66, 68, 198
assemblages 25–27, 52, 89–90, 118, 122
criticism 119
metric 148
and privatisation 174
regimes as 181
assessment 50–51, 191
see also Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
attraction 27–29
audit culture 60, 153
Australia
alignment 18
early childhood education reform 105
education reform 109
fast policy 98
Indigenous policy analysis 115–116
mediatisation 134
New Public Management (NPM) 170
policy diffusion research 64
professional standards 22
social inclusion 164
teachers 176
testing regimes 45
tradeshows 197–198
vocational education 82
authoritative choice 171
automated management 66
automation 29–31

B

Bacchi, C. 1, 47, 54, 175–176
Bailey, P.L.J. 73, 108–109
Bajenova, T. 95
Baker, T. 119
Ball, S.J. 83, 146, 153–154, 162, 169, 171–172, 173, 182–183, 200–201
Bangladesh 162, 213
Bangura,Y. 62
Bansel, P. 81, 143–144
Barber, M. 60, 61
Barnett, C. 145
Bauman, Z. 180
Bender, T. 119
Bennett, C.J. 159, 199, 200
Bensimon, E. 99–100
Berkovich, I. 49, 213
Bevir, M. 179
bias algorithms 68
Biesta, G. 87, 88
big data 65, 67, 68, 98, 125, 147, 148
Billig, M. 3
biological rationality 180
Black children 51
Black feminists 99, 101
Blackmore, J. 100
Blackness 80
Blasco, M.C. 20
bodies 80–81, 100
Bolivia 116
Bologna Process 150
Boossabong, P. 59
borrowing 25, 27, 32–34, 97, 138, 169
Bourdieu, P. 157
Bourke, T. 22
Bowe, R. 54, 180
Brain, K. 133
Braun, A. 42, 82
Brazil 24, 116
Brenner, N. 119
bricolage 34–35, 84, 102, 186
Brito Vieira, M. 193
Britzman, D. 71
Brøgger, K. 150
brokering 36–37
Brown, P.R. 116
Brummett, B. 193
bureaucratic-professional regulation 183–184
Burgess, C. 115–116
Butler, J. 153

C

Callon, M. 12
Camphuijsen, M.K. 53
Canada 64, 91, 115, 156, 189
see also Quebec
capitalism 88, 106, 145, 163, 167
Caribbean 183
Carvajal, J.E.P. 15
Carvalho, L.M. 124
Castensen, M.B. 34
Cavanagh, S.L. 111
central actors 195
centrality 195
Certeau, M. de 186
Chabbott, C. 63
change
in events 90
and path dependence 120–121
and policy diffusion 65
and resistance 185
in social network analysis 194
theories of 56
see also policy change ; social change
Character Matters! 189
charisma 130
Chase, S.E. 143
Chen, S. 116
Chile 15, 116
China 158
choice 75
authoritative 171
parental 180
see also instrument choice theory ; public choice theories ; rational choice institutionalism ; school-choice practices
Chung, J. 28
citizen participation 59
see also participation
Clarke, J. 175, 207
co-construction 11, 157
co-functioning 119
coercion 65, 236
cognitive influence 85
Cohen, M. 140
Colebatch, H.K. 170–171
collective interpretation 82–83
communication 3, 121, 128, 134, 187
see also dialogue ; discourse
communities of consent 188
community 38–39
competitive policy learning 160
complexity reduction 52
Cone, L. 174
Confederation of School Trusts 172
Connell, R. 177
consent, communities of 188
conservatives 166
see also neoconservatism
consultants 39–41, 94
consultocracies 40
container model of space 196
contexting 43
contexts 41–43, 82, 83, 84, 168, 212
see also recontextualisation
contextualising terms 5
convening 15
convergence 44–45, 74, 169, 206, 216
see also divergence
Cooper, A. 36
corporate consultants 40
corporatism 62
Courpasson, D. 185, 186
Courtney, S.J. 130, 131, 166
crisis narratives 188
critical advocacy 164
critical data literacy 67
critical data studies 66
critical discourse analysis (CD) 12, 48–49, 188
critical ethnography 156
critical pedagogy 67
critical policy sociology 46, 58, 134, 162–163
critical race theory 49–51, 115
critical realism 88
critical scholarship 46
critical Whiteness studies 50
criticality 6, 45–47
critics 171
critique 17, 47
cross-field effects 158
cultural political economy 51–53
curriculum standardisation 45
curriculums see Emerging Issues (EI) curriculum
cycles 53–55, 138
Cyprus 170

D

Dahlstedt, M. 105
data 191
see also big data
data circulation 148
data citizenship 67
data collection 18–19, 88, 117, 146–147, 165
data infrastructures 117, 118, 203–204
data mediators 126
data platforms 67, 69
see also digital education platforms
data science 65
data sociologists 148
data technologies 148
see also digital technologies
datafication 66, 105, 125, 147
see also digital artefacts
David, M. 180
Davis, E.R. 27–28
DeBeer, Y. 22
decision-making 53, 54, 142
and data 147
and fast policy 97, 98
and framing 101
and instrumentation 123
and privatisation 174
and rationality 179, 180
decolonising race theory 115
decoupling 56–57
Decuypere, M. 126, 213
degree centrality 195
DeLanda, M. 25
DeLeo, R.A. 199
Deleuze, G. 25, 26, 199
deliberative policy analysis 58–60
deliverology 60–62, 164
depoliticisation 101, 207
Deutsch, K.W. 159
dialogue 62–63
see also communication ; discourse
Dickhaus, B. 182
diffusion 25, 63–65
see also borrowing ; policy learning ; transfer
digital artefacts 23
see also technology
digital data 191
digital education 29, 65–67, 125, 126, 188–189, 203
digital education platforms 126
digital policy sociology 67–69
digital school-performance platforms 69
digital sociologists 148
digital technologies 26, 67
digitalisation 125, 210–211
direct regulation 183
discourse 88
in the archaeological method 21–22
meritocratic 200
policy as 82
power as 156
see also communication ; dialogue ; language ; obesity discourse ; poststructuralist discourse theory
discourse analysis 70–71, 88–89
see also critical discourse analysis (CD)
discursive artefacts 24
discursive institutionalism 121–122
discursive psychology 3
dispositif 71–73
divergence 73–75
see also convergence
Dobbins, M. 74
documentary photography and film 212
Dodge, M. 66
domination 185, 186
see also power
drift 75–77
du Gay, P. 110
Duarte, B.J. 178
Dubois, V. 156
Duncan, S. 180
Dunleavy, P. 179

E

Eacott, S. 40
early childhood education 26, 105
economic competition 64
economic crisis 2007–2010 34
education policy research 1–2, 3–4
education policy sociology 4
see also policy sociology
education policy transfer 39
see also transfer
Education Queensland 12
Education Reform Advocacy Organisations 15
education reforms 53, 109, 153–154, 174, 189
see also Global Education Reform Movement (GERM)
educational automation 29
educational policy, six foci of 27
educational trade fairs 90–91, 197–198
EduTech 197–198
Edwards, D.B.Jr. 28, 139
eigenvector centrality 195
elites 78–79, 140, 145, 190
embodiment 79–81
Emerging Issues (EI) curriculum 53
emotions 16, 180
empirical feminism 101
employability 73, 136
enactment 42, 44, 75, 81–83, 133, 171, 207
endogenous privatisation 173
England
Confederation of School Trusts 172
education policy 167
experimentation 92
leadership 131
National College for School Leadership (NCSL) 192
New Public Management (NPM) 170
Ofsted 178
school governance 184
segregation 80
university tuition fees 76
Enright, E. 24
enthusiasts 171
entrepreneurs 83–85, 102, 141, 171, 201
entrepreneurship 131
entrepreneurship education 15–16, 105
environmental and sustainable policy analysis 85–87
environmental education 87
see also sustainability education
environmental stewardship 85
environmentality 17
episteme 21
epistemic communities 39
epistemology 1–2, 87–89, 149
Escobar, O. 59
Espeland, W.N. 118–119, 147
ethics 75
ethics of care 85, 100
ethnography 155–157, 162, 212
European Union 95, 97, 136, 160, 198
evaluation 54–55
evaluation infrastructure 117–118
Evans, J. 80
eventalisation 90
events 89–92
exigence 188
exogenous privatisation 173
experimentation 92–93
expertise 24, 94–96
explicit borrowing 33
external contexts 42
external transaction 28
externalisation 206

F

Fairclough, N. 48
fast policy 97–99
feelings 16
see also emotions
feminist genealogy 100
feminist policy analysis 99–101
fieldwork 20
findings 88
Finland 28, 98, 117, 144, 188–189
Fischer, F. 58, 59, 128
Fitzgerald, T. 131
Foucault, M.
archaeological method 21–22
discourse 70, 156
discursive formations 182
dispositif 72
genealogy 104
governmentality 107–108
homosexual identity 177
reform 2–3
foundational myths 56
framing 101–103, 171, 191
France 35, 170
Frankfurt School 11
Fraser, A. 190–191
free schools 173–174
Freeman, R. 34–35
Fussey, P. 69
Fylkesnes, S. 50

G

Gale, T. 111, 175, 176
Galvin, D.J. 76–77
game theory 114
gender 80–81, 153
see also women
gender equality 99, 111
gender roles 213
genealogical historiography 111
genealogy 100, 104–105
Genieys, W. 78, 79
Germany 45, 115, 184
Gewirtz, S. 152
Gilardi, F. 65
Gilborn, D. 50–51
Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) 56, 92, 201
global education reforms 53, 153
global policy processes 104
global sustainable pluralism 62–63
Global University Ranking 135
globalisation
and anthropology 19
and convergence 44, 45
and expertise 94
and fast policy 97
and governance 106
and partnerships 151
and policy instruments 123
and scalar policy analysis 190
see also topology ; world culture theory
Gobby, B. 109
Gofen, A. 74–75
Goldthorpe, J. 179
Goodwin, N. 109
Google 126
Google Scholar 148
Gorur, R. 13, 42, 67, 154
Gove, M. 192
governance 105–107
and assemblages 25, 26
and automation 30
and datafication 147
and expertise 94, 95
and infrastructure 117
and intermediaries 125
and mediatisation 134
by numbers 118
participatory 59
and partnerships 152
and policy instruments 123
in policy network analysis 161
and regulation 184
in scalar policy analysis 191
in spatial policy analysis 197
technologies of 122
see also school governance
governmental power 107–108
see also state power
governmentality 107–109, 145, 152, 186
Grace, G. 130, 163–164
Greer, S.L. 74
Grek, S. 95
Griffiths, T.G. 152
Grimaldi, E. 22, 111–112, 208
Guatemala 116
Guattari, F. 25, 26
Gulson, K.N. 35, 91, 117, 118, 197–198, 203–204
Gunter, H.M. 40, 60, 80, 131
Gvirtz, S. 187

H

Haas, P. 39
habitus 157
Hacker, J.S. 75–76
Halberstam, J. 177–178, 200
Hall, D. 131
Hamilton, M. 59, 135
Hammersley, M. 155–156
hard transfer 205
Hardy, I. 98
Hartmann, E. 73
Hartong, S. 45, 68, 69, 118, 126, 191
Harvey, D. 145, 203
Hay, S. 109
Haye, A. 180
headteachers 41, 171, 174, 186–187
Heclo, H. 159
Heimans, S. 82
Hendriks, C.M. 128
Hepworth, K. 23
hermeneutics 88
Herrschaft 78
Higgins, S. 53
higher education
activism 46
corporate restructuring 100
meritocratic discourses 200
micro-credentials 136
quality assurance 35, 182
unbundling 209–211
historical institutionalism 120–121
historiography 110–112
Hogan, A. 15
holism 20
Holland, D. 3
‘homo economicus’ 145
Howarth, D. 182
Howlett, M. 37
Hsieh, C.-C. 35
Huencho, V.-F. 116
Huitema, D. 93
human capital theory 136–137
human-centrism 38, 39
Hunkin, E. 105
Hupe, P. 113
hyperporosity 210

I

Ideland, M. 176
identity 144, 177
imagined communities 38
imitation 64
imperialistic policy learning 160
implementation 53, 54, 60, 74–75, 113–115, 133
incrementalism 140
India 67, 135
Indigenous policy analysis 115–117
indirect regulation 183
individual interpretation 82
industrial infrastructure 44
influence 85
informational artefacts 23
infrastructure 117–119
Ingold, K. 37
institutional isomorphism 44–45
institutional rules 56
institutional theory 119–122
instrument choice theory 114
instrumental policy learning 159
instrumentation 123
instruments 122–125
intelligibility 21
interest-group conflicts 199
intergovernmental organisations 44, 205
see also International Monetary Fund ; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ; World Bank
intermediaries 125–127
intermediary organisations 14, 15, 172
internal initiative 28
International Monetary Fund 62
international processes of education policy formation (IPEPF) 28
interpretation 82–83
interpretational artefacts 23
interpretive policy analysis 127–129
IQ testing 51
Ireland 26, 213
Italy 111–112
Ivancheva, M.P. 210

J

Janks, H. 49
Japan 45
Jessop, B. 6, 51–52
Jobér, A. 17, 90–91
Jules, T.D. 183
Jung, T. 193

K

Kaiser, R. 191
Kakabadse, A.P. 78
Kallo, J. 39
Kauko, J. 201
Kay, A. 76
Kerber, W. 160
keywords 4
Kincheloe, J. 111
King, P.J. 84
Kingdon, J. 83–84, 140–141
knowledge 36, 41, 95, 137, 164, 179
knowledge actors 94
knowledge-making 14
knowledge production 58, 168
Koh, A. 213
Kosunen, S. 144
Krishnan, A. 3

L

laboratory federalism 160
Lambert, K. 24
Laney, D. 147
Lange, B. 160
language 3, 12, 88, 145–146
see also critical discourse analysis (CD) ; discourse analysis ; rhetorical analysis ; translation
Lapping, C. 199
Lascoumes, P. 123, 124
Lasswell, H.D. 165
Latour, B. 12, 13, 25, 207–208
Law, J. 12, 14, 149
law school ranking 118–119
Lawn, M. 95, 198
leadership 130–131
see also system leadership
league tables 74, 135, 147
learning 64, 69, 159–160, 210
Learning Journeys 213
lending 32
Levi-Strauss, C. 34
Lewin, K.M. 63
Lewis, S. 98
Li, T.M. 25, 207
Liasidou, A. 170
liberal feminism 100
Lingard, B. 45, 94, 134, 191, 203
linguistic philosophy 3
linguistics 154
see also language
Lipsky, M. 113
loose coupling 56
Lubienski, C. 15
Lúcio, J. 132
Luhmanian theoretical framework 33
Lunde, I.M. 26, 213–214
Lyotard, J.-F. 153

M

Macfarlane, B. 209–210
Maguire, M. 24, 71
Maroy, C. 35, 170, 183–184
Marxist dependency theory 205
mass media 133–134
Masschelein, J. 46
Massey, D. 197
material contexts 42, 83
material semiotics 149
May, P.J. 159, 183
Mayan peoples 116
Mazur, A.G. 101
McCowan, T. 209, 210
McKenzie, M. 86, 139
meaning 1, 2, 7, 21, 52, 104, 128, 175
mediation 132–133, 134
mediatisation 91, 133–135, 158, 213
meritocratic discourses 200
Merkel, A. 192
Merkus, S. 154
meta-narratives 2
meta-policy 195, 215
metric assemblages 148
Meyer, J. 56, 57
micro-credentials 136–138
migrant children 158
mini-publics 59
mitigation 133
mobility 97, 98, 138–140, 162
mode of dissension 104
Molla, T. 46
Moschetti, M. 53
movement see mobility
multiple-streams analysis 140–142
mutual policy learning 160

N

naming-and-shaming 16
narrative policy analysis 143–144
narrators 171
nation-states 43
see also service states ; state power
national capital 45
National College for School Leadership (NCSL) 60, 61, 192
National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery (NPARSD), Australia 116
national testing regimes 45
nations 38
nature 85
nature-conversation education 86
Nay, O. 85
negative critique 47
neo-institutionalist theories 205
neoconservatism 78
neoliberal spatial technologies 35
neoliberalism 2, 4, 145–146
and anthropology 19
and elites 78, 79
and embodiment 80–81
and governmentality 108–109
New Zealand 93
and partnerships 151
rights and entitlements 167
‘ugly’ feelings 16
network ethnography 162
networks 117, 201
see also Actor-Network Theory (ANT) ; policy network analysis ; social network analysis
New Labour 60, 61, 131, 192
new programmatic ideas 84, 102, 202
New Public Management (NPM) 45, 131, 154, 170, 174, 195
New Zealand 92–93
Nichols, N. 156
Nietzsche, N. 104
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) 14, 15
non-humans 13
normative terms 5
Norther Ireland 74
Norway 26, 50, 53, 213
Nudzor, H.P. 114
numbers 146–148
governance by 118
see also datafication

O

obesity discourse 79–80
objective rationality 179
Ochs, K. 27
Ofsted 178
Olmedo, A. 105, 161
ontological plurality 7
ontology 2, 149–150
open method of coordination (OMC) 160
Oplatka, I. 56, 57
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
alignment 17–18
educational transfer 205
and fast policy 97
influence 39, 203
and mediatisation 135
policy field analysis 158
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 28, 42, 74, 91, 124–125, 135, 154, 182, 191
teacher quality 49
visual methods 213
outsiders 171
Ozga, J. 89, 183, 184

P

Paananen, M. 26
Papanastasiou, N. 172, 192
para-academics 210
paradigm wars 165–166
parental choice 180
Parreira do Amaral, M. 129
participation 63, 78–79, 115
participatory governance 59
Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas 24
partnerships 151–152, 184
path dependence 120–121
Pautz, H. 200, 201
Pearson 40, 98
peasant societies 185
Peck, J. 97
Pereya, M.A. 91
performance indicators 18, 44, 123, 215
performativity 14, 152–155, 191
peripheral actors 195
Perryman, J. 153
Phelps, A. 18–19
Phillips, D. 27
Piattoeva, N. 43
Piazza, P. 15
Pillow, W.S. 80, 81, 100, 200
Pitton, V.O. 17
place see spatial policy analysis
platformisation 210–211, 213
Player-Koro, C. 90
Plowright, D. 23
Poland 48, 74
policies
as anthropological phenomenon 19–20
as artefacts 169
policy
as rhetoric 189
see also fast policy ; meta-policy
policy actors 171–172
policy analysis 101, 165
see also deliberative policy analysis ; environmental and sustainable policy analysis ; feminist policy analysis ; Indigenous policy analysis ; interpretive policy analysis ; narrative policy analysis ; queer policy analysis ; scalar policy analysis ; spatial policy analysis ; temporal policy analysis
policy change 158, 170
policy ethnography 155–157
policy field analysis 157–159
policy formulation 53, 54
policy hybridisation 28
policy imposition 28
policy learning 159–160
policy making and policy worlds 1–2, 7, 35, 58–59, 123, 174–175
policy movement see fast policy ; mobility
policy negotiation 28
policy network analysis 160–162
policy networks see networks
‘policy primeval soup’ metaphor 141
policy problematisation 176
policy problems 163, 174, 175
policy scholarship 6, 162–164, 165
policy science(s) 58, 101, 163–164, 164–166, 167, 175, 176
policy sociology 58, 89, 101, 123, 162, 165, 166–168
see also critical policy sociology ; digital policy sociology ; education policy sociology
policy stream 141
policy texts 168, 169, 187–189
policy trajectory analysis 168–170
policy work 170–172
political authority 183
political communication 134
political learning 159
political manipulation 28
political regulation 183
political stream 141
politics of scale 190
Pollard, V. 136, 137
Poole, W. 197
Poppema, M. 116
positivism 48, 58, 87–88, 89, 93, 100, 127
see also post-positivism
positivist research 3–4, 6
post-bureaucratic regulation 184
post-positivism 88, 175
poststructuralism 127–128, 175
poststructuralist discourse theory 48
power
in Actor-Network Theory (ANT) 13
from an anthropological perspective 20
and artefacts 23, 24
in critical discourse analysis 49
and digitalisation 203
and elites 79
and entrepreneurs 84
and epistemology 89
and expertise 94
governmental 107–108 (see also state power )
in implementation studies 114
and infrastructure 117
mobile relations of 72
in narrative policy analysis 143
in policy field analysis 157
and policy instruments 122
and policy mobility 139
in policy network analysis 161
and resistance 185–186
in scalar policy analysis 191–192
in spatial policy analysis 196
translation model of 207–208
power imbalances 11
power relations 12, 72, 88, 95, 152, 156, 178
power topologies 203–204
Pralle, S. 199
praxis stories 128
prescriptive influence 85
prescriptive terms 5
presentational artefacts 23
Pressman, J.L. 113
Prince, R. 41
principal-agent theory 114
private schools 184
private sector actors 53
privatisation 172–174
problem representation 54, 175
problem stream 141
problematisation 174–176
professional consultants 40
professional contexts 42
professional cultures 83
professional roles 102
professionalism 75
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 28, 42, 74, 91, 124–125, 135, 154, 182, 191
Prunty, J. 167–168
public choice theories 179–180
public health policies 192
public interest 134–135
public-private partnerships in education (ePPP) 151

Q

quality-assurance policies 182
quantified child 105
Quebec 35, 170
queer methodology 177–178
queer policy analysis 177–178
queer theory 81, 89, 177, 178
queer time 200

R

Raaper, R. 71
racial diversity 213
racism 50, 51
radical feminism 100–101
Raffnsøe, S. 47
randomised controlled trials (RCTs) 127, 175
Ranson, S. 184
Rasmussen, M.L. 177
rational choice institutionalism 120
rationalism 75, 140
rationality 7, 179–181
Ratner, H. 68
Rawolle, S. 157–158
realist ethnography 212
rebundling 210
receivers 171–172
recontextualisation 82, 207
référentiels 79
Regalsky, P. 116
regimes 80, 181–183
see also accountability regimes
regulation 183–185
see also algorithm regulation / algorithmic regulation
regulatory regimes 182
representational artefacts 23
research brokering organisations (RBOs) 36
researcher consultants 40
resistance 185–187
responsibility 30
retention 52, 53
rhetorical analysis 187–189
Rhodes, R.A.W. 106
Roberts, N.C. 85
role theory 102
Romania 74
Rönnberg, L. 15
Rose, N. 163, 186
Rutkowski, D.J. 44

S

Saari, A. 117, 188–189, 204
Sabatier, P.A. 37
Sahlberg, P. 92
Salter, M.B. 73
Savage, G.C. 18, 26
Savage, G.S. 46
scalar policy analysis 190–192
scalar regimes 183
scalar tensions 192
scale framing 102
scalecraft 190–191
Scandinavian institutionalism 121–122
Scheurich, J.J. 22
scholarship 11
see also critical scholarship ; policy scholarship
school-choice practices 23–24
school effectiveness and school improvement (SESI) 61
school governance 156, 184
schools 38, 43, 56–57, 91, 118, 184, 191–192
scientific knowledge 179
Scotland 34, 74
Scott, J. 185
segregation 80
selection 52, 53
self 144
self-reflexive activism 11
Sellar, S. 117
Selwyn, N. 30, 69
service states 40
setting 51
Shahjahan, R.A. 134, 135
shame 16
Shiroma, E.O. 24
Sierra Leone 53
silence 22, 134, 150, 192–194
silent borrowing 33
Silicon Valley 98–99
Silova, I. 39, 216
Simon, M. 164, 202
Singapore 213
Singh, P. 150, 154, 172
situated contexts 42, 83
Smith, R. 105
Smyth, J. 11–12, 164
Sobe, N.W. 42
social change 34, 100, 110, 196
social construal 52
social construction 52, 171
social constructionism 88
social constructivism 88, 175
social feminism 100–101
social inclusion 164
social network analysis 194–196
social policy learning 159
social regulation 183
sociological institutionalism 120
sociology of education 163
sociology of education policy 58
see also critical policy sociology
sociology of numbers 148
soft transfer 205
South America 79
Souto-Otero, M. 23, 24
sovereignty 108
Spain 170, 191
spatial policy analysis 190, 196–198
Stables, A. 38
Stacey, M. 176
standardisation 42
standards agenda 56–57, 60, 61
Stankiewicz, L. 48
state power 108, 152, 153
see also nation-states
statements 21, 22
Staunæs, D. 16, 17
Steiner-Khamsi, G. 32, 33
Stone, D. 35
Strang, D. 64
street-level bureaucrats 113
street-level divergence 74–75
structured interaction 171
subjective rationality 179
subjectivity 137
subsystems 37
surface policy learning 160
sustainability education 86, 87
sustainable policy analysis see environmental and sustainable policy analysis
Sutoris, P. 156
Sweden 105, 184
Switzerland 170
system leadership 151

T

Taiwan 35, 116
Takayama, K. 33, 45
Tamboukou, M. 110, 111
targetology 164
Taylor, S. 12, 48
Teach First 73, 108–109
Teach for All/ America 162
Teach for Bangladesh 162, 213
teacher autonomy 184, 188–189
teacher leadership 131
teacher quality 49
teachers 90, 126, 133, 136, 176, 187
technical influence 85
technocracy 62
technologies of governance 122
technology 24
see also data technologies ; digital artefacts ; digital technologies ; neoliberal spatial technologies
teen mothers 80, 200
temporal policy analysis 199–200
testing regimes 182
see also Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Thailand 59
think tanks 59, 94, 95, 102, 126, 200–202
‘Thinking Schools, Learning Nation’ (TSLN) 213
Thompson, G. 199, 200
Thomson, P. 158, 186–187
tiering 51
Tilleczek, K. 11, 12
time see temporal policy analysis
topographical mapping 203
topological reflexivity 204
topology 202–204
tradeshows 90–91, 197–198
trans-regional regimes 183
transactors 171
transfer 25, 39, 138, 169, 204–206, 207
transformational leadership 130
translation 13, 32, 33, 83, 102, 120, 206–208
translators 171
transnational actors 145, 190
truths 104
regimes of truth 182–183
tuition fees 76

U

UNAIDS Secretariat 85
unbundling 209–211
UNICEF 53
Unified District Information System of Education, India 67
United Kingdom 46, 83
see also individual countries
United States (US)
alignment 18–19
bricolage 34
convergence 45
critical race theory 50
criticality 46
law school ranking 118–119
mediation 132
participation 115
policy advocacy groups 15
policy diffusion research 64
policy drift 76
public health policies 192
Teach for All/ America 162
teen pregnancy 80
universities see higher education
university ranking 135
see also law school ranking
university tuition fees 76
Uruguay 53
U.S. News and World Report (USN) 119

V

Vakirtzi, E. 22
van Lieshout, M. 102
Van Poeck, K. 86–87
variation 52, 53
Verger, A. 52, 83, 84, 85, 102, 123, 191
visual communication artefacts 23
visual methods 212–214
visualisation 135

W

Waldow, F. 33
Wales 74
Wals, A.E.J. 87
Ward, I. 134
Webb, P.T. 149, 176
Weick, K.E. 56
welfare liberalism 163, 167
West, A. 184
Wheelahan, L. 136–137
White supremacy 50–51
Whiteness 50, 213
wicked problems 128
Wilder, M. 35
Wilkins, A. 23–24, 45, 146, 170, 191
Williams, D.G. 63
Williamson, B. 66, 93, 94–95, 98, 126
Winchip, E. 174
Winton, S. 188, 189
Wodak, R. 48
women 39, 80, 99, 101, 111
World Bank 62, 65, 97, 151, 195, 205
world society 120, 121
Wright, N. 131
writing 1, 3

Y

Yates, L. 165
Yeatman, A. 11, 12
Yu, H. 158

Z

Zamudio, M.M. 50