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Author:   David Dolowitz ,  Magdaléna Hadjiisky ,  Romuald Normand
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.526kg
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9781788976985

ISBN 10:   1788976983
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Foreword xi Leslie A. Pal 1 Introduction 1 David Dolowitz, Magdaléna Hadjiisky and Romuald Normand 2 Diffusing marketization: competition, synergies, and repartition of tasks in the global agri-food policy field 16 Eve Fouilleux 3 Neoliberalism and the ‘think-tank image’ fallacy: a sociological exploration of homologies of structuration inside the OECD, EU, and governments 36 Vincent Gayon 4 Beyond the standardization versus contextualization debate: the role of the OECD in European education governance 57 Sotiria Grek 5 Transnational care chains as seen by the OECD, the World Bank, and the IOM 77 Rianne Mahon 6 The power of ‘soft skills’: the role of the OECD in the shaping of a new cognitive motive in the global agora of education 95 Sarah Maire 7 The OECD’s rules and standards for the testing and assessment of chemicals 116 Annie Martin 8 Knowledge battles at the World Bank: how institutional activists introduced the norm of participation into international development policy 137 Olivier Nay 9 Walking the Washington talk? An analysis of the World Bank’s policy-practice disjuncture in education 162 Clara Fontdevila and Antoni Verger 10 Conclusion 183 David Dolowitz, Magdaléna Hadjiisky and Romuald Normand Epistocracy: an afterword on global policy and ‘rule by the wise’ 194 Diane Stone Bibliography 200 Index 231

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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

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