Think Tanks, "Policy Experts" and "Ideas for" Education Policy Making in Australia

Autor/in	Lingard, Bob
Titel	Think Tanks, "Policy Experts" and "Ideas for" Education Policy Making in Australia
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 43 (2016) 1, S.15-33 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-015-0193-0
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Organizations (Groups); Educational Research; Expertise; Case Studies; Neoliberalism; Politics of Education; Educational Finance; Federal Aid; Retrenchment; Public Agencies; Advocacy; Educational Change; Social Change; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Expert appraisal; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Educational policy; Bildungsfonds; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Sozialanwaltschaft; Bildungsreform; Sozialer Wandel; Australien
Abstract	This paper provides a case study of the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) in Australia with a focus on its education policy work, specifically the report, "School funding on a budget" (SFoB). CIS is a conservative right wing advocacy think tank, established in 1976 in the aftermath of the Whitlam government's policy activism, framed by classical liberalism or neoliberalism with a provenance in the political economy of Hayek and Friedman. As such, it is committed to smaller government, individual responsibility and more market driven solutions to social problems. CIS gives more emphasis to academic research than other think tanks of its kind. This paper theorises think tanks as hybrid, boundary spanning organisations that work across academic, media, political and economic fields. An argument is proffered that it is the restructured state, with its loss of research capacity and fast policy making, which has strengthened opportunities for think tank influence across the policy cycle in education. With SFoB, CIS used a political moment, the first Abbott federal government budget focused on "budget repair", to argue a case for reducing government educational expenditure as a percentage of GDP in the long term. That policy moment was used for recommending the abolition of the federal department of education and further dismantling of public schooling. SFoB is shown to be exemplary of the conservative advocacy think tank report genre in its usage of "mediatized" language, surface accoutrements of academic research, and user focus. SFoB is a manifestation of what can be seen as the ideas for policy work of CIS, dressed up as research. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01