Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITESI IIBF DERGISI-ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, cilt.20, sa.1, ss.89-111, 2025 (ESCI)
This study analyzes the "vocational and technical education policies" implemented in Turkey after 2000 by using the dialectical model within the policy networks approach. The theoretical aim of the study is to contribute to the discussion on the power of policy networks to explain policy change. The practical aim is to explain the change in vocational and technical education policies in the context of policy networks. In the study, it was observed that the network structure significantly constrained actors, actors developed discourses and solution alternatives to change the network structure, and the most important contextual factor that forced the network to change was political influence. Based on these findings, it is concluded that the policy network approach can be used as an analytical framework to explain policy changes in multi-actor, fragmented and complex policy spaces.