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Abstract
This paper focuses on the role of governments in contemporary networked political configurations. Such networks constitute policy communities, usually based upon shared conceptions of social problems and their solutions. By enabling social, political, and economic connections at local, regional, national, and international levels, such networks become key policy players as well as a policy technology in different spaces. More specifically, the paper is organised around three policy frameworks in the field of education. Each framework is based on a ‘network-case’. In the first framework, governments represent the main driver for political change in legislating a landscape that creates the conditions for networks to develop around different aspects within the public sphere (e.g. organisation, co-funding, delivery, etc.). The second policy framework focuses on the activities of an already organised network in order to engage with existing political configurations as a ‘political actor’ in its own right, what could be called ‘governing with/alongside networks’. The third policy framework focuses on instances where the network operates directly as a ‘state-maker’.
Notes
1. The full speech can be found at: https://news.microsoft.com/speeches/bill-gates-world-economic-forum-2008/
9. Ms Wolf left the charity in 2013 and started working for Amplify, an education technology company based in the US. She has recently come back to the UK in 2015 to work for the Department for Education under the current conservative government.
11. Sir Bruce Liddington was forced to resign after the controversy generated by the first of those reports and, also, the on-going pressures on him since E-ACT public accounts revealed that the general-director received a salary of £280,816 in 2010/11, plus £18,303 for his pension and £16,707 in expenses.
12. It is important to remember at this point that the inspectorate evaluates individual schools but not the groups and chains behind them.
13. The results of the inspections to E-ACT schools can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279545/Financial_management_and_governance_review_E-ACT.pdf; https://www.gov.uk/government/news/results-of-e-act-academy-inspections-published
16. This is the latest available on their website to date. Available at: http://www.teachfirst.org.uk/sites/default/files/press/pdf/2013-14%20Trustees%27%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Accounts%20-%20final%20signed%20version%20GT%20for%20CC.pdf
17. Research interview conducted with the Head of Research at Teach First.
19. Idem.
24. Idem.
26. Research interview conducted with John Rendell, CEO of PEAS.
28. Idem.