Evaluating European Education Policy-making ― Privatization, Networks and the European Commission

This collection is an inside look at European Commission policy-making in education and the privatization of policy-making in the European Union. Along with contributions from leading academics in the field of European educational policy and policy-sociology, this book also introduces the 'absent voices' in the policy privatization debate: policy consultants and policy-makers. Contributors combine theoretical concepts with empirical research to consider the differences between the European Commission policy privatization process and similar processes in countries around the world. Evaluating European Education Policy-Making provides the first empirical contribution to the study of the private/public policy networks that the Commission uses for the co-production of its 'statework' in the area of education, and ultimately addresses fundamental questions of democracy and accountability.

Manuel Souto-Otero is Senior Lecturer in Education Policy at the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK. He has published widely in the areas of EU education policy, internationalization in education, educational inequality and policy evaluation.