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- Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Theorizing Governance in Higher Education
- Part II Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education
- 2 The Regulatory State and the Labour Process
- 3 Systemic Governance
- 4 Institutional Governance
- 5 Capture and Drift in Emerging International Governance Arrangements
- 6 Understanding Convergence and Divergence in the Internationalization of Higher Education from a World Society Perspective
- 7 Convergence through Research Performance Measurement?
- 8 Accountability and Governance in European Higher Education
- 9 Towards New Models of Decision Making within University Governance in Anglophone Nations
- 10 Governance in Public and Private Higher Education in Europe: Patterns, Divergences, and Convergences
- Part III Geographies of Governance
- Index
- References
4 - Institutional Governance
Factors, Actors, and Consequences of Attempting to Converge on the Anglo–American Model
from Part II - Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2020
- Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Theorizing Governance in Higher Education
- Part II Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education
- 2 The Regulatory State and the Labour Process
- 3 Systemic Governance
- 4 Institutional Governance
- 5 Capture and Drift in Emerging International Governance Arrangements
- 6 Understanding Convergence and Divergence in the Internationalization of Higher Education from a World Society Perspective
- 7 Convergence through Research Performance Measurement?
- 8 Accountability and Governance in European Higher Education
- 9 Towards New Models of Decision Making within University Governance in Anglophone Nations
- 10 Governance in Public and Private Higher Education in Europe: Patterns, Divergences, and Convergences
- Part III Geographies of Governance
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter considers the national reforms that all the European governments have continuously designed and implemented. These reforms have been inspired by the same common template — the Anglo-American university governance model, actively promoted by the European Union — but national strategies have clearly interpreted this template according to their inherited legacies, and national reforms have subsequently been elaborated and implemented by the universities’ internal actors — with their power resources, culture, learning abilities — which have acted as ‘filters’ vis-à-vis the planned reforms. Even more importantly, as shown in this chapter, this has meant that the consequences of national reforms of university governance have largely differed from the expected results.
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- Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher EducationComparative Perspectives, pp. 103 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020