Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy)

For several decades, higher education systems have undergone continuous waves of reform, driven by a combination of concerns about the changing labour needs of the economy, competition within the global-knowledge economy, and nationally competitive positioning strategies to enhance the performance of higher education systems. Yet, despite far-ranging international pressures, including the emergence of an international higher education market, enormous growth in cross-border student mobility, and pressures to achieve universities of world class standing, boost research productivity and impact, and compete in global league tables, the suites of policy, policy designs and sector outcomes continue to be marked as much by hybridity as they are of similarity or convergence. This volume explores these complex governance outcomes from a theoretical and empirical comparative perspective, addressing those vectors precipitating change in the modalities and instruments of governance, and how they interface at the systemic and institutional levels, and across geographic regions. Cover Half-title page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Part I Theorizing Governance in Higher Education 1 Theorizing the Governance of Higher Education: Beyond the ‘Republic of Scholars’ Ontology Part II Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education 2 The Regulatory State and the Labour Process 3 Systemic Governance: Convergence or Hybridization? 4 Institutional Governance: Factors, Actors, and Consequences of Attempting to Converge on the Anglo–American Model 5 Capture and Drift in Emerging International Governance Arrangements: The Role of Meta-organizations in Higher Education Quality Assurance 6 Understanding Convergence and Divergence in the Internationalization of Higher Education from a World Society Perspective 7 Convergence through Research Performance Measurement?: Comparing Talk and Practices in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom 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 11 Higher Education Governance in North America 12 Governance Trends in European Higher Education 13 Governance and Corruption in East and Southeast Asian Higher Education: Close Cousins, Close Encounters 14 Fixing the System?: Trends in African Higher Education Governance 15 Neoliberals versus Post-Neoliberals in the Formation of Governance Regimes in Latin America’s Higher Education Index This volume offers a comprehensive set of approaches to understanding the changing dimensions of higher education governance, the structural, institutional, and regional-national drivers precipitating convergence and divergence in governance approaches, and maps the directions of change, their consequences and outcomes. This volume explores convergence and divergence in the governance of higher education systems from a global and comparative perspective