Governing Universities Globally: Organizations, Regulation and Rankings

by Roger King

Book Overview

Roger King examines how universities, as increasingly autonomous organizations, are subject to forms of global governance that rely particularly on private and peer-processes rather than legal command and compliance. The book explores the growing influence of global regulatory governance - governmental and private - on universities and national higher education systems. It considers processes of purposeful standardization, normative internalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847207391
• ISBN13: 9781847207395
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages