Analysing Knowledge Networks in Higher Education Policymaking: Uncovering the Power of Networks in the FinlandEU Context [Hardcover]

1. Knowledge, power, and networks in higher education policymaking?2. Studying knowledge networks in higher education policymaking?3. Inside the Knowledge Networks?4. National and European systems intertwined: Higher education policymaking in the EU context?5. FinlandEU higher education policy network: Structure, formation, and characteristics?6. Organisational Knowledge Network?7. Policymakers Norms on Knowledge: Credibility, Reliability, and Holism?8. Navigating higher education policymaking in the European Parliament?9. Conclusion

Looking at higher education policy actors connecting the Finnish and EU contexts, this volume explores at the power and influence of networks on decision-making and the utilising of knowledge within higher education policy.?

This book about higher education policymaking networks operating in and between Finland and the European Union is a wonderful read from beginning to end. It provides a refreshing approach to the complex relations between knowledge, power and networks, making a compelling case to study policy making from a relational perspective. Furthermore, the book advances research in education policy through a series of insightful methodological moves that should be key for anyone studying policy networks in the future.

-- Jason Beech, Associate Professor of Global Policies in Education, University of Melbourne, Australia

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This is an exciting book about higher education policy and knowledge networks in the European Union (EU) and in one member state, Finland. Based on extensive and solid empirical research, the volume brings new insights about how policy making works in in-between networks in a policy field where EU competencies are vague and which, as a result, has been too little studied to date. The chapters generate novel findings both at the EU level and in a national contlƒ(