1. What is policy? Texts, trajectories and toolboxes;Ball;Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education,1993
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4. Following policy: Networks, network ethnography and education policy mobilities;Ball;Journal of Education Policy,2016
5. The education debate;Ball,2017