Title: Advocacy coalitions in Brazilian higher education: the role of the main stakeholders in shaping the new social contract for Brazilian higher education
Abstract: This paper explores the dynamics of coalition building that unifies different stakeholders inside the Brazilian policy system related to higher education using the conceptual framework of the advocacy coalitions as proposed by Sabatier and collaborators. It discusses how “democratic governance” was established as a core value inside some of the coalitions and how it has been converted into a policy taboo (Tannenwald, 1999) against which no “respectable” domestic actor may fight, no matter what international bench marking says. It also explores the constraints this framework has imposed over the development of new policy instruments in the
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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