International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education

Jeroen Huisman is Professor in Higher Education Management and director of the International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM), University of Bath. He is a graduate from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Educational Sciences, 1991), and received his PhD at the University of Twente (1995).

• List of IllustrationsSeries Editors' IntroductionNotes on ContributorsForeword by Christopher HoodChapter 1: Coming to terms with governance in higher education, by Jeroen HuismanPart I: The Application of Governance FrameworksChapter 2: Governance in Higher Education: An Analysis of the Italian Experience, by Gianfranco Rebora and Matteo TurriChapter 3: Governance in German Higher Education: Competition Versus Negotiation of Performance, by Dominic Orr and Michael JaegerChapter 4: Governing Disciplines: Reform and Placation in the Austrian University System, by Claudia Meister-Scheytt and Alan ScottChapter 5: Prometheus (on the) Rebound? Freedom and the Danish Steering System, by Susan Wright and Jakob Williams ØrbergChapter 6: Reform Policies and Change Processes in Europe, by Catherine Paradeise, Ivar Bleiklie, Jürgen Enders, Gaële Goastellec, Svein Michelsen, Emanuela Reale & Don F. WesterheijdenChapter 7: Policy Networks and Research on Higher Education Governance and Policy, by Lucia Padure and Glen A. JonesPart II: Variations on a Governance ThemeChapter 8: Effectiveness or Economy? Policy Drivers in UK Higher Education, 1985-2005, by Roger BrownChapter 9: Good Governance and Australian Higher Education: An Analysis of a Neo-liberal Decade, by Leo Goedegebuure, Martin Hayden and V. Lynn MeekChapter 10: Viewing Recent US Governance Reform Whole: ‘Decentralization’ in a distinctive context, by Michael K. McLendon and James C. HearnChapter 11: Mapping out Discourses on Higher Education Governance, by António Magalhães and Alberto AmaralChapter 12: Irish Higher education and the Knowledge Economy, by Kelly Coate and Iain Mac LabhrainnPart III: The Invisible Hand of GovernanceChapter 13: The Effectiveness of a Dutch Policy Reform: Academic Responses to Imposed Changes, by Harry F. de BoerChapter 14: The Graduate System in Transition: External Ph.D. Researchers in a Managerial Context?, by Christine Teelken, Kees Boersma and Peter GroenewegenChapter 15: Governance and the Autonomous University: Changing Institutional Leadership in UK and Australian Higher Education, by David Smith and Jonathan AdamsIndex

"This text provides an exceptionally detailed account of the evolutionary nature of university governance in a variety of national settings."--Journal for International and Global Studies