ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 is particularly focused on the structural dimension of power. It addresses the latest transformations of international governance in education and science, which involve an increase in significance of international comparisons for establishing the political options available to agents. Those changes impose normative choices while mobilising the resistance of a section of the public. The chapter contains a detailed analysis of the role of the OECD in the emergence of a transnational regime in education and science, and it focuses on governance by numbers fostered by the PISA study.
