Abstract
This article considers the role of business interests within the devolved political and governmental arrangements introduced by New Labour. We focus on the involvement of business in shaping post-16 education and training policy in Wales. Continuities apparent in the Process of devolution across its administrative and political forms have produced a distinctive Welsh political economy involving public sector-dominated policy agendas periodically punctured by specific business interests. Devolution appears to have underlined such continuities. An increased imperviousness of public sector-dominated post-16 education and training strategy-making to business interests coexists with the ability of specific business interests to distort such strategies at an operational levell.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 559-579 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Policy and Politics |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2005 |
Keywords
- Business interests
- Devolution
- Education and training policy
- Wales
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
- Public Administration
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law