Think tanks, policy networks and education governance: The rising of new intra-national spaces of policy in Portugal

• Main Authors: Sofia Viseu (Author), Luís Miguel Carvalho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Arizona State University, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 1068-2341; 10.14507/epaa.26.3664
• Keywords: Think tanks; policy networks; education governance; social network analysis; Education; L
• Source: Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol 26, Iss 0 (2018)

This article focuses on the role of think tanks in education governance in Portugal, We are interested in contributing to a literature that discusses the emergence of new intra-national spaces of policy, and examines how the actors operating in those spaces work and influence education policy. This article is based on an empirical study conducted by EDULOG, a think tank for education that has been operating since 2015. We mapped EDULOG's activities, the information generation activities, organizations, and actors connected to EDULOG using a network ethnography and social network analysis. This study shows that a) this organization articulated a network of actors from different sectors, including the academy, business and government agencies; and b) EDULOG acts as a space of social and cognitive intermediation, committed to developing knowledge geared towards policy decision and problem solving.