Edited by Vincent Dubois, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Sciences Po, University of Strasbourg, France, researcher at SAGE (UMR CNRS 7363)

• Contents:Introduction to Bringing Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields to CriticalPolicy Analysis 1Vincent DuboisPART I POLICY DOMAINS AS SOCIAL FIELDS1 Constructing the field of educational power: socio-historyand structural analysis of two critical moments 18Pierre Clément2 The Brazilian National Development Bank’s public policyexamined through multiple correspondence analysis andsocial network analysis 37Elisa Klüger3 Colorado River Basin water policy: using Bourdieu’s fieldtheory in the environmental policy arena 56Brian F. O’Neill, Joan Cortinas Muñoz and Franck Poupeau4 Security as a field of force: the case of Switzerland in themid-2010s 74Stephan Davidshofer, Amal Tawfik and Jonas Hagmann5 From the theory of the state to the sociology of publicpolicy fields in Latin America: the production ofeconomic policies in Peru 90Arthur MorenasPART II THE BUREAUCRATIC FIELD IN POLICY-MAKING6 The bureaucratic field and the sociology of public policy:from the structure of the administration to the productionof policies 109Victor Demenge and Melaine Robert7 The role of autonomization of the bureaucratic field in thedevelopment of public policy: the case of Canadian foodsafety policy 1874–1969 128Caroline Dufour8 Public policy as a product of the professional structure ofthe bureaucratic field 134Victor DemengePART III TWO INTERSTITIAL FIELDS: EXPERTISEAND THINK TANKS9 Interstitial knowledge: considerations based on the case ofexpertise on radicalization in France 154Lili Soussoko10 On the strength of lesser fields: a reflection on publicpolicy think tanks and the concept of interstitial fields 173Thomas MedvetzPART IV POLICY AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIELDS11 The ‘grip’ of the journalistic field on national publicpolicy: a sociological explanation of a media-orientedgovernmental decision 188Jérémie Nollet12 Relations between the scientific field and the bureaucraticfield in ‘authoritarian’ and ‘democratic’ contexts: historypolicy in Poland 207Valentin Behr13 The relationship between the bureaucratic and theentrepreneurial fields: shedding light on the contributionof public policy to delimiting legitimate economic activities 214Antoine RogerPART V THREE POLICY PROCESSES REVISITEDWITH THE SOCIOLOGY OF FIELDS:DECISION-MAKING, IMPLEMENTATION,INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION14 Sociology of fields and the decision-making process: theexample of presidential cultural projects in France 235Thomas Hélie15 Analysing the implementation of European publicpolicy with the sociology of fields: some remarks on theEuropean Union’s regional policy 253Vincent Lebrou16 International policy circulation and fields of public policyin the (Latin American) periphery 262Paul HathazyPART VI THE EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONALCONFIGURATIONS ON PUBLIC POLICIES17 What the field of eurocracy tells us about European policies 282Didier Georgakakis18 What the international field does to foreign policies 300Florent PouponneauConclusion to Bringing Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields to CriticalPolicy Analysis 318Vincent Dubois

‘This excellent comparative collection brings a Bourdieusian-inspired field perspective to the sociology of public policy. Students of public policy who want to step outside of the traditional positivist, rationalist, institutionalist, or network studies of state-centered approaches will appreciate how these field analyses offer a more complete understanding of how public policies actually emerge.’