Abstract

FONTOURA, Maria Madalena. Policy and public action.: From central regulation to multipolar regulation. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2008, vol.21, n.2, pp.5-31. ISSN 0871-9187.

This text provides an overview of the broadened field of the policy analysis with the aim of contributing for the understanding of the process of construction and regulation of public policies. It gives account of the complexity of the process that goes beyond the moment of decision, implying different spaces and a great multiplicity of actors. Our reflection derives from the critical analyses, interrogations and commentaries on the Portuguese educational policy, made by different authors, and from different prisms, in the last decades, on the autonomy of the schools, and the effects observed in the implementation of the measures invoked by that autonomy. Particularly, we will consider projects, considered here as tools to solve problems and create opportunities on the borders between the social and the political. It also represents an opportunity to show the importance of the space and temporal dimension for the construction and analysis of the public policies.

Keywords : Policy analisis; Public action; Public policies; Autonomy of the schools; Projects.

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