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 xiLeslie A. Pal1 Introduction 1David Dolowitz, Magdaléna Hadjiisky and Romuald Normand2 Diffusing marketization: competition, synergies, and repartition of tasks in the global agri-food policy field 16Eve Fouilleux3 Neoliberalism and the ‘think-tank image’ fallacy: a sociological exploration of homologies of structuration inside the OECD, EU, and governments 36Vincent Gayon4 Beyond the standardization versus contextualization debate: the role of the OECD in European education governance 57Sotiria Grek5 Transnational care chains as seen by the OECD, the World Bank, and the IOM 77Rianne Mahon6 The power of ‘soft skills’: the role of the OECD in the shaping of a new cognitive motive in the global agora of education 95Sarah Maire7 The OECD’s rules and standards for the testing and assessment of chemicals 116Annie Martin8 Knowledge battles at the World Bank: how institutional activists introduced the norm of participation into international development policy 137Olivier Nay9 Walking the Washington talk? An analysis of the World Bank’s policy-practice disjuncture in education 162Clara Fontdevila and Antoni Verger10 Conclusion 183David Dolowitz, Magdaléna Hadjiisky and Romuald NormandEpistocracy: an afterword on global policy and ‘rule by the wise’ 194Diane StoneBibliography 200Index 231