Intermediary Organizations and Field

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Paul Dekker
Keyword(s):  
Intermediary Organizations

The New Middle Management: Intermediary Organizations in Education Policy Implementation

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith I. Honig
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Intermediary Organizations ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Education Policy Implementation ◽  
Implementation Resources

Intermediary organizations have become increasingly prominent participants in education policy implementation despite limited knowledge about their distinctive functions and the conditions that constrain and enable those functions. This article addresses that research-practice gap by drawing on theories of organizational ecology and findings from a comparative case study of four intermediary organizations that helped with collaborative policy implementation in Oakland, California. I define intermediaries as organizations that operate between policymakers and implementers to affect changes in roles and practices for both parties and show that such organizations typically vary along at least five dimensions. Oakland’s intermediary organizations all provided new implementation resources—knowledge, political/social ties, and an administrative infrastructure—but faced different constraining and enabling conditions. Using insights from this strategic case study, this article begins to build theory about intermediary organizations as important participants in contemporary policy implementation.

The Progressive Party and the Rise of Executive-Centered Partisanship

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney M. Milkis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Intermediary Organizations ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Progressive Party

This chapter examines the wayward path of Progressivism from Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign to the Obama presidency. Committed to “pure democracy,” many early-twentieth-century reformers hoped to sweep away intermediary organizations like political parties. In their disdain for partisan politics and their enthusiasm for good government, they sought to fashion the Progressive Party as a party to end parties. However, the Progressives failed in that ambition, and their shortfall has had profound effects on contemporary government and politics. By transforming rather than transcending parties, they fostered a kindred, though bastardized, alternative: executive-centered partisanship. The transformation of parties set in motion by the Progressives has subjected both Progressivism and conservatism to an executive-centered democracy that subordinates “collective responsibility” to the needs of presidential candidates and incumbents.

Enhancing University–Industry collaboration: the role of intermediary organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Alexandre ◽  
Hélder Costa ◽  
Ana Paula Faria ◽  
Miguel Portela
Keyword(s):  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
Intermediary Organizations ◽  
University Industry

The ‘Milky Way’ of intermediary organisations: a transnational field of university governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Sahlin ◽  
Filip Wijkström ◽  
Lisa Dellmuth ◽  
Torbjörn Einarsson ◽  
Achim Oberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
University Governance ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Intermediary Organizations ◽  
University Performance ◽  
Governmental Funding ◽  
Intermediary Organisations

This chapter focuses on transnational intermediary organizations in higher education and research. We conceive of intermediaries as organizations that are actively involved in transnational university governance without having formal access to or control over policy or governmental funding. Such intermediary organizations have in previous research been shown to play central roles in the development and circulation of new themes and ideas for how to manage universities and measure university performance. Intermediaries link different types of actors and act as translators of global themes. In this respect, they are decisive in policy formulation.

Intermediary Organizations as Capacity Builders in Family Educational Involvement

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elena Lopez ◽  
Holly Kreider ◽  
Julia Coffman
Keyword(s):  
Intermediary Organizations ◽  
Educational Involvement ◽  
Family Educational Involvement
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