Making Policy in Turbulent Times :Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education

Publication subTitle :Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education

Author: Axelrod > Paul  

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781553393412

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781553393320

Subject: D0 Political Theory

Keyword: 政治理论

Language: ENG

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Description

Can higher education policy-making be imaginatively theorized?

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

AFTERWORD

18. Conducting Policy Analysis in Higher Education: Issues and Prospects

LIST OF ACRONYMS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

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