This book critically explores the role of two advocacy NGOs actively involved in processes of education policymaking during the recent education reforms carried out in Chile, the country known as the first laboratory of neoliberalism around the world. Based on Foucault’s theoretical work on governmentality the book argues that neoliberalism as a form of governmentality has permeated in Chilean policymaking, generating new forms of domination through freedom by situating NGOs as active and responsible subjects of government. In this way, this volume contests the supposed benefits of NGOs as a counterbalance to the state and as representatives of marginalised group interests in policymaking, suggesting instead that rather than giving “voice” to a wider range of interest groups in society, “advocacy” NGOs can depoliticise policy discussion and build a political consensus that serves to legitimate government interests and disarticulate possible challenges to neoliberalism.  is a Lecturer in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, UK weiterlesen