The Politics of Scale in Policy

Scalecraft and Education Governance

Natalie Papanastasiou (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

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English

Policy Press
01 May 2019

Educational strategies & policy; Public administration; Political geography

Despite the central position that scale occupies in the frameworks of policy scholars and practitioners, scale has escaped critique in the study of policy. This book explains why this problem matters to our understandings of policymaking by highlighting how scale is not a natural feature of the social world, but is instead an integral feature of social practice.

By focusing on the area of education governance and drawing on the empirical cases of England's academy schools policy and European education governance, the book presents scalecraft as a novel conceptual lens for addressing the scalar blind spot of policy analysis.

By: Natalie Papanastasiou (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781447343851
ISBN 10: 1447343859
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 01 May 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by John Clarke (Open University); Policy, scale and the importance of space; Problematising scale in the study of policy; Exposing scale hegemonies; Knowledge, policy and scale; Hegemonies of statecraft and scale; Spatial entrepreneurs and scalecraft; The practice of scalecraft.

Dr. Natalie Papanastasiou is a postdoctoral researcher of public policy and governance with a particular interest in exploring practices of policymaking and the politics of education governance. She is currently based in the Globalisation, Education, and Social Policies (GEPS) research group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’s Department of Sociology.

Reviews for The Politics of Scale in Policy: Scalecraft and Education Governance

Conceptually rich and empirically tempered, this book combines insights spanning different academic disciplines to offer up a new and exciting vantage point through which to theorise the messy relationship between space, place and policy making. The proposed vantage point - 'scalecraft' - is an essential toolkit to thinking through the dilemmas and problematics shaping policy translation and implementation both nationally and globally. Andrew Wilkins, University of East London Weaving together novel insights from critical geography, political discourse theory and interpretive policy analysis, Natalie Papanastasiou advances an innovative conceptualisation and reading of scalecraft, one that challenges policy analysts to take space seriously. Steven Griggs, De Montfort University This original contribution demonstrates an empirically grounded approach to what some critical social scientists have been calling for: a move beyond one-dimensionalism to consider the multiple ways sociospatial relations are constituted and organised... Local Government Studies