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Spain’s highly decentralized education system and contested territorial politics make it an especially suitable case for analyzing these dynamics. The article traces how global influences promoting private provision, school choice, and New Public Management (NPM) interacted with Spain’s consolidated decentralization project, producing divergent policy trajectories across regions. 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(2023) . Regional policy trajectories in the Spanish education system: Different uses of relative autonomy. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31(68). [https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.8031](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.8031 This)[ This](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.8031 This) article is part of the special issue, Global Policy Mobilities in Federal Education Systems, guest edited by Jason Beech, Laura Engel, Glenn C. Savage, and Bob Lingard.  \nAbstract: Federal and highly decentralized political systems open different spaces to interpret, adapt, and enact international policy trends and ideas within the same territory. Spain, a country with a highly decentralized educational system and contentious territorial politics, is a very suitable case to analyze these dynamics. Spain and its different regions have not been immune to the influence of  \nglobal policy ideas that gear around promoting private provision, school choice, and New Public Management (NPM) in education. However, the consolidation of the decentralization project, together with the fact that many regional governments have aimed to construct, for a variety of reasons, singular political profiles, have resulted in markedly different policy trajectories. To show this, this article pays particular attention to recent changes in the educational governance arrangements of two important Spanish regions, Madrid and Catalonia, as they have gone through differentiated processes of educational reform. Albeit the two regional education systems share important features (such as a historical and wide-scale public-private partnership for school provision), they have engaged with, combined, and mobilized exogenous and endogenous privatization policy ideas in remarkably different ways. The article delves into the political drivers behind this policy differentiation process by paying special attention to the relations of coordination, conflict, and competition that prevail within an incomplete federal system, such as the Spanish one. Keywords: education policy; school governance; New Public Management; school choice; school autonomy; accountability; Spain; Catalonia; Madrid; federalism; quasi-federal system  \nTrayectorias políticas regionales en el sistema educativo español: Usos diferentes de una autonomía relativa  \nResumen: Los regímenes políticos federales y altamente descentralizados son espacios de interpretación, adaptación y promulgación de ideas y tendencias políticas internacionales en sus contextos estatales específicos. España, un país con un sistema educativo muy descentralizado, es un caso especialmente relevante para analizar estas dinámicas. Las Comunidades Autónomas españolasno han sido ajenas a la influencia de una agenda política global que gira en torno a la promoción dela oferta privada, la elección escolar y el fenómeno de la Nueva Gestión Pública (NGP) eneducación. Sin embargo, la consolidación del proyecto de descentralización, junto con el hecho de que muchos gobiernos regionales han pretendido construir, por diversas razones, perfiles políticos singulares, ha dado como resultado traducciones y trayectorias políticas marcadamente diferentes. Para mostrarlo, este artículo presta especial atención a los cambios recientes en la gobernanza educativa (en a","cbCaiuDIyjK8yDbZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuDIyjK8yDbZ","pdf",656248,26,"English","# Abstract\n## Policy trajectories in Spain\n## Madrid and Catalonia governance reforms\n## Drivers: coordination, conflict, and competition","[{\"question\":\"Why does Spain serve as a suitable case for analyzing education policy dynamics?\",\"answer\":\"Spain’s education system is highly decentralized and its territorial politics are contentious, creating strong conditions to study how policy ideas are interpreted and enacted across regions.\"},{\"question\":\"Which global education policy ideas are discussed as influencing Spanish regions?\",\"answer\":\"The text highlights influences linked to promoting private provision, school choice, and New Public Management (NPM) in education.\"},{\"question\":\"What explains the different policy trajectories between Madrid and Catalonia?\",\"answer\":\"The article attributes differentiation to interactions between privatization policy ideas and Spain’s regional governance development, emphasizing coordination, conflict, and competition within an incomplete federal system.\"}]","Regional Policy Trajectories in the Spanish Education System - Different Uses of Relative Autonomy | PDF",1792094197,66]