Chapter
I: POLICY-MAKING: THE NATURE OF THE PROCESS
1. Politics, Money, Economic Advantage, and Last, but Perhaps Not Least, University Autonomy: Assessing the Policy Drivers in British Higher Education
2. Making Post-secondary Education Policy: Toward a Conceptual Framework
3. The Role of Evidence and Expertise in Research Funding Agencies
II: AGENDA-SETTING: THE ROLE OF POLICY ACTORS
4. How Do Governments Really Make Higher Education Policy, and How Can Universities Influence the Policies Governments Make? An Experience-Based Analysis
5. Lineation and Lobbying: Policy Networks and Higher Education Policy in Ontario
6. Setting Strategic Direction from the Presidential Suite: Hurdles and Successes
III: POLICY ISSUES: ACCESS, QUALITY, AND AFFORDABILITY
7. Higher Education and Student Financial Support in England: All Change or No Change?
8. Balancing Quality and Equity in Higher Education Policy Agendas? Global to Local Tensions
9. Research and Reluctance in Improving Canadian Higher Education
IV: THE POLICYMAKING CONTEXT: GLOBAL DIMENSIONS
10. Globalization and “Policyscapes”: Ruptures and Continuities in Higher Education
11. Translating Globalization into Practice: University Networks – Toward a New Stratification of Higher Education?
12. Cross-National Education Policy Change in Quality Assurance: Convergence or Divergence?
13. Designing Higher Education Policy in the Age of Globalization: Imperfect Information and the Pursuit of the Public Good
V: PUBLIC POLICY AND HIGHER EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
14. Oscillations and Persistence in Chinese Higher Education Policy: A Path Dependence Analysis
15. The Europe of Knowledge: An Analysis of the EU’s Innovation Strategy
16. Institutional Alliances: Passing Policy Fad or New Organizational Model?
17. The Building of International Alliances: A Case Study of Canada-India Collaborations in Post-secondary Education
18. Conducting Policy Analysis in Higher Education: Issues and Prospects