Heinz-Dieter Meyer is Associate Professor of Education Administration and Policy Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York and has also taught sociology and organizational behavior in Germany and France. He is the coeditor (with William Lowe Boyd) of Education between States, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives. Brian Rowan is Burke A. Hinsdale Collegiate Professor in Education at the University of Michigan.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. Institutional Analysis and the Study of EducationHeinz-Dieter Meyer and Brian Rowan 2. The New Institutionalism and the Study of Educational Organizations: Changing Ideas for Changing TimesBrian Rowan 3. Varieties of Institutional Theory: Traditions and Prospects for Educational ResearchCharles E. Bidwell 4. The Rise and Decline of the Common School as an Institution: Taking "Myth and Ceremony" SeriouslyHeinz-Dieter Meyer 5. The School Improvement Industry in the United States: Why Educational Change Is Both Pervasive and IneffectualBrian Rowan 6. The Institutional Environment and Instructional Practice: Changing Patterns of Guidance and Control in Public EducationJames Spillane and Patricia Burch 7. The New Institutionalism Goes to the Market: The Challenge of Rapid Growth in Private K–12 EducationScott Davies, Linda Quirke, and Janice Aurini 8. Growing Commonalities and Persistent Differences in Higher Education: Universities between Global Models and National LegaciesFrancisco O. Ramirez 9. The Worldwide Expansion of Private Higher Education: Challenges for the New InstitutionalismDaniel C. Levy 10. Institutional Change in Education: Evidence from Cross-National ComparisonsDavid P. Baker 11. Breaking the Institutional Mold: Faculty in the Transformation of Chilean Higher Education From State to MarketAndrés Bernasconi 12. Lessons Learned and Future DirectionsBrian Rowan 13. Gauging the Prospects for ChangeHeinz-Dieter Meyer List of ContributorsIndex