1st Edition

International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education Alternative Frameworks for Coordination

Edited By Jeroen Huisman Copyright 2009
308 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Essential reading for policy makers, institutional leaders, managers, advisors, and scholars in the field of higher education, International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education analyzes how the governance of higher education systems has evolved in recent years. This volume is an authoritative overview with contributions from authors from the U.K., the Netherlands, Denmark,... Read more

PART I: National Systems of Governance in Higher Education

 In this section the focus is on contributions from HE researchers and public administration/political science scholars analysing policy processes, including policy implementation, in a variety of countries across the world

Chapter One: Introduction: Setting the Agenda (this will elaborate on the points made above) by Jeroen Huisman

Chapters Two/Three: The Quasi-State: The Steering Model of Governance in Action – the UK and New Zealand as case studies, Roger Brown

Chapters Four/Five: Corporatist-Pluralist Governance Models – the Netherlands and Austria as case studies, Theo Toonen and Elsa Hackl

Chapters Six/Seven: Governance in Transition: Responding to Macro-Political Change – Poland and Hungary as case studies

Chapters Eight/Nine: Governance in Transition: Responding to the Pressures of Global Economic Development – two countries will be selected from Latin America, Asia or Africa with Brazil and Mozambique constituting the two most likely choices

PART II: The Emergence of Multi-level Governance

Chapter Ten: The Rise of Multi-Level Governance, Jereon Huisman and Åse Gornitzka

Chapters Eleven/Twelve and Thirteen: Johanna Witte, Ivar Bleiklie

Chapters Fourteen/Fifteen: The Impact of WTO/GATS/NAFTA – a (former) CEE country (GATS) and a Latin American country (NAFTA) –, Rollin Kent

Chapter Sixteen: Conclusion – Jeroen Huisman

Biography

Jeroen Huisman