Date: 2023
Type: Article
The role of European (transnational) business actors in the emergence of a boundary spanning policy regime in European education and employment
Journal of education and work, 2023, Vol. 36, No. 7-8, pp. 563-575
CINO PAGLIARELLO, Marina, The role of European (transnational) business actors in the emergence of a boundary spanning policy regime in European education and employment, Journal of education and work, 2023, Vol. 36, No. 7-8, pp. 563-575
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76391
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Although research on European education policy has aptly focused on the role of supranational and intergovernmental actors, less attention has been devoted to its analysis as a policy arena in which legitimacy can be created and power can be exerted in sophisticated ways. Specifically, the role of non-state actors as agenda-setters for European education and employment policies is still unexplored. By combining a neo-Gramscian approach of political economy with Jochim and May’s boundary spanning policy regimes’ perspective, which captures activity across policy subsys-tems that seek to manage ‘wicked’ policy problems, this paper looks at the role of private and business actors, and specifically the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT), in European education during the 1980s and 1990s. The findings show how this period can be considered a foundational period for the emergence of a BSPR in education and employment, and in which specific goals and directions were set out in the European education agenda more fine-tuned with employment goals and industry’s needs. Moreover, the paper illustrates why private and non- state actors shape boundary policy spanning regimes at the nexus of education and employment, which in this case reflected the economic interests and preferences of European transnational companies.
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Published online: 28 December 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76391
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2023.2284151
ISSN: 1363-9080; 1469-9435
Publisher: Routledge
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