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GOVERNANCE REFORMS IN EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SYSTE...

This book examines governance reforms in higher education in six European countries: Austria 
Denmark  Finland  France  the Netherlands  and Portugal. It focuses in particular on the
governance of the systems and institutions in these countries. The book shows that each of the
national reform processes has been characterised by its own specific pathways embedded in the
country's specific socio-economic contexts and cultures  but also has a number of features in
common with the other countries and processes. The first chapter of the book presents a
conceptual framework to analyse the reform processes as an 'implementation game' played by
several actors with diverse interests. The second chapter describes the national reform
processes of the six selected countries  giving a voice to the individual university rectors
and officials who played an important role during the reform processes. Their stories
constitute a vivid narrative of the government drivers of reform and of the rationales of the
institutions as main partners in the reform processes. These narratives are analysed 
complemented by  and contrasted with a review of the literature on the subject in the third
chapter. The final chapter consist of concluding remarks and lessons learned.

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