University Governance: Western European Comparative Perspectives

by Emanuela Reale, Ewan Ferlie, Ivar Bleiklie

Book Overview

Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureaucracies politically weakened by massification when an emerging common understanding enhanced their role as major actors in knowledge based economies. While university systems are deeply embedded in national settings, the ex post rationale of still on-going reforms is surprisingly uniform and "de-nationalized"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048179408
• ISBN13: 9789048179404
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"