Policy Advice and Policy Advisory Systems in Education

Abstract

Abstract Creating and diffusing knowledge about policies represents a challenge for both academics and practitioners. At the same time, the demand for policy advice from policymakers is constantly increasing, while globalization contributes to differentiate the forms and the actors of expert knowledge on public policies. The literature has recently focused on this issue by proposing to view not the single advisor, but the policy advisory systems, intended as the systems of actors who deliver policy advice from within and from outside institutions in a given policy sector. These trends are also visible in the globalization of education policies, which creates pressures for policy diffusion, borrowing or leaning on local policymakers. This chapter presents the characteristics of policy advisory systems in education policies emerging in a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European countries.