Network Governance and New Philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reconfiguration of the State

• In Event: The Significance of Collaboration in Education From a Global Stance

Abstract

This paper draws on the literature on network governance and new philanthropy to characterize and explain the increased involvement of non-State actors in education policymaking in the Dominican Republic. The study reveals, first, how network governance has intensified since 2010 through hybrid public-private spaces of agenda setting, and second, how these hybrid spaces have given way to the emergence of new philanthropy, which engages directly with the State as part of its efforts to influence policymaking. The paper concludes by arguing that future studies should bring the concepts of network governance and new philanthropy into conversation with theoretical approaches that emphasize the underlying political-economic structures within which non-State actors operate.

Authors

• D. Brent Edwards, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

• Mauro Moschetti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

• Alejandro Caravaca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona