How globalization effect on national policy

If you are interested in the concept of globalization and its effect on national policy, this post will be interesting for you. It is about the paper “Specifying globalization effects on national policy: A focus on the mechanisms” by R. Dale.  The author comments that globalization is a bridge between nation states and the world economy, but it can be of different forms. Moreover, globalization has influenced the results of the procedures of the states’ policy development. He suggests that the mechanisms of globalization influencing national policy are of great importance in showing its effect on national policy of all countries. The author also indicates the differences between global mechanisms and traditional ones, and highlights those varieties of mechanisms, which influence education policy.

According to Dale (2007), the main characteristics of globalization are “economic, political and cultural strands” (p.66). In this paper, Dale speaks about political most. However, globalization has impact to all these three levels, and the system of education as well.

In a globally changing world, countries aim at being competitive. They pay more attention to the development of economic status. Location of “Trans National Corporations” in the countries helps to achieve this goal (p.68).

             Speaking about globalization, Dale (2007) points out its ability to make changes in policies of states. However, some national features still exist.

 In one of the sections of this paper, the author makes the comparison between mechanisms, which were used for making policy changes before globalization: the so-called ‘traditional mechanisms’ as ‘policy borrowing’ and ‘policy learning’, and during globalization period – ‘global mechanisms’ as ‘harmonization’, ‘dissemination’, ‘standardization’, ‘installing interdependence’ and ‘imposition’ – all with the effect on education policy (p.68). Here, the author confirms that it is important to borrow those things that will be useful. ‘Policy learning’ is more complex and instructive, “learning about organizations, learning about programs and learning about policies” (p.74). The significant feature of ‘harmonization’ mechanism is “collective agreement” (p.76). ‘Dissemination’ mechanism is a process of “initiation and dimension of power dimensions” (p.77). A good example of this type of mechanism is the OECD giving directions for future in different policy fields. Speaking about ‘standardization’ mechanism, Dale (2007) mentions the work of the ‘global institutionalists’ who confirms that nowadays, states derives experience from ‘worldwide models’ (p.78). The peculiarity of ‘Installing Interdependence’ is concern of each nation state for such common issues as, for example, “human rights and peace, environmental issue and many others (p.80). The last mechanism, ‘imposition’ is the only one, which allows making changes without any processes of collaboration, learning or persuasion (p.80). 

            The topic globalization is relevant and crucial. While considering the concept of globalization, the author pays much attention to the impact of globalization to states’ policies, one of which is national education policy, and those mechanisms through which it effects the last one.

Reference

Dale, R. (2007). Specifying globalization effects on national policy: A focus on the mechanisms.   

               Education, globalization and new times, pp. 64-82. New York: Routledge.