Jan Currie. School of Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia and Janice Newson. Department of Sociology, York University, Ontario, Canada

• INTRODUCTION - Jan CurriePART ONE: GLOBALIZATION AS AN ANALYTICAL CONCEPT AND LOCAL POLICY RESPONSESGlobalization and Education Policy in Australia - Janice DudleyNational Higher Education Policies in a Global Economy - Sheila SlaughterPART TWO: NATIONAL RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATIONThe Changing Political Economy - Donald Fisher and Kjell RubensonThe Private and Public Lives of Canadian UniversitiesThe Service University in Service Societies - Arild TjeldvollThe Norwegian ExperienceThe Last Decade of Higher Education Reform in Australia and France - Richard DeAngelisDifferent Constraints, Differing Choices in Higher Education Politics and PoliciesPART THREE: GLOBALIZING PRACTICES: CORPORATE MANAGERIALISM, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND PRIVATIZATIONMicro-Economic Reform through Managerialism in American and Australian Universities - Jan Currie and Lesley VidovichDon′t Count Your Blessings - Claire Polster and Janice NewsonThe Social Accomplishments of Performance IndicatorsChanging Accountability and Autonomy at the `Coalface′ of Academic Work in Australia - Lesley Vidovich and Jan CurrieThe Entrepreneurial University - Edward BermanMacro and Micro Perspectives from the United StatesPART FOUR: TRANSNATIONAL AND SUPRANATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND MECHANISMSGlobalization and Distance Education Mega-Institutions - Mick Campion and David FreemanMega-AmbivalenceGlobalization, the OECD, and Australian Higher Education - Robert Lingard and Fazal RizviReshaping the Educational Agendas of Mexican Universities - Janice Newson, Heriberta Castaños-Lomnitz and Axel DidrikssonThe Impact of NAFTA CONCLUSION - Janice NewsonRepositioning the Local through Alternative Responses to Globalization