This book examines the extent to which international organizations have shaped reforms in education and training in federalist countries with regards to policy convergence. In advanced democracies, international organizations have become increasingly influential in government activity. This also applies to policy fields that have traditionally been nearly exclusively regulated by the nation-state. How strong is their influence in policy fields like education where they rely on purely soft governance to stimulate national policies? From a political science perspective, three major initiatives are analyzed: the OECD’s PISA study, the European Bologna process and the European Union’s Copenhagen process. Within a few years, these initiatives have contributed to deep transformations within the education arena. This book elucidates the processes in which nation-states comply with these initiatives, using the examples of Switzerland and the United States.

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University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Tonia Bieber

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Tonia Bieber is Policy Advisor to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Before, she was Senior Researcher at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe ‘Transformative Power of Europe’ of Otto-Suhr-Institute, Free University of Berlin, and at the Collaborative Research Center ‘Transformations of the State’, University of Bremen, Germany. She has published on multilevel governance, international organizations, European integration in education and training policies, and policy convergence. She is the co-editor of Shaping Inequalities: Welfare State Transformation and its Outcomes.

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Book Title: Soft Governance, International Organizations and Education Policy Convergence
Book Subtitle: Comparing PISA and the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes
Authors: Tonia Bieber
Series Title: Transformations of the State
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47695-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47694-4Published: 30 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47695-1Published: 17 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 273
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Higher Education, Public Policy, Public Administration, Education Policy, International Organization

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Framing Soft Governance, Education, and Convergence

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Switzerland: An Extreme Case

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