"Big think" or "bottom-up"? : how private philanthropic foundations seek to influence public education policy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Private philanthropic foundations are perennially controversial actors within public policy contexts, and their influence within U.S. education policy has increased over the last several decades, yet their actions in the public sphere have received limited empirical and theoretical attention. This dissertation presents a cross-case comparative analysis of four influential foundations active in the field of K-12 public education. I determine that these foundations have fundamentally different values regarding their roles as policy actors. These contrasting values represent two distinct modes of engagement, which I describe as economic and political approaches. I also find that four distinct organizational norms influence whether foundations predominantly align with an economic or political approach. These norms include the foundations' loci of control, problem orientation, preferred policy actors, and expectations regarding results. I use these empirical findings to explore key questions regarding the influence of foundations as private actors within public education.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Tompkins-Stange, Megan E |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Primary advisor | Reich, Rob |
| Thesis advisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Thesis advisor | Reich, Rob |
| Thesis advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Thesis advisor | Sievers, Bruce R |
| Advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Advisor | Sievers, Bruce R |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Megan E. Tompkins-Stange. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Megan Elizabeth Tompkins-Stange
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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