Abstract
ABSTRACT At the European level, interest groups contribute to public policy shaping and decision-making within and across political domains. However, the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which respond to neither normative nor utilitarian rationality, as an interest group involved in European education governance needs further research. This study focuses on NGO1, a Brussels-based meta-organisation with a vested interest in education. Adopting a structural interactionist approach and using Social Network Analysis, the study depicts how the organisations involved in NGO1’s networks interacted over 2019–2023, defining its network governance. The results highlight how this meta-organisation is at the centre of a network governance structure that connects it to crucial EU institutions while supporting the emergence of some of its member organisations. This means that NGO1 can be helpful to its constituency: (i) to reinforce collaborative relations among themselves, creating, moreover, highly cohesive subgroups, potentially capable of exerting pressure on NGO1’s stance and agenda-setting; and (ii) to team up with NGO1, perhaps under its coordination, for direct collaborations with EU institutions and lobbying concerning the EU agenda. The analytical strategy applied in this study could be used to extend the examination of other Brussels-based meta-organisations and their contribution to European Education Governance.
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