Overview
- The most comprehensive discussion of the state of the art of Implementation Analysis in Higher Education
- A review and critical appraisal of current empirical policy research in Higher Education
- A unique variety of national case studies updating empirical data on implementation of Higher Education policies
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 8)
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Starting from the now classical book by Ladislav Cerych and Paul Sabatier (1986), the editors present a critical appreciation of that initial work and a review and critical appraisal of current empirical policy research in higher education.
In the second part, a set of chapters analyses the effective and specific complexities of the implementation of higher education policies in several countries, offering a wide variety of situations both in terms of duration of implementation, legal objectives, adequacy of causal theories underlying the reforms, adequacy of financial resources and degree of commitment of the main actors of the process. Some of these chapters use alternative theoretical frameworks developed since the 1986 Cerych and Sabatier theorization to interpret the empirical results, and some national cases do not fall within the scope of Cerych and Sabatier’s analysis. The national case studies are: Australia (2), Austria, Finland, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
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National Case Studies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reform and Change in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Analysing Policy Implementation
Editors: Åse Gornitzka, Maurice Kogan, Alberto Amaral
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3411-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3402-2Published: 05 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5536-2Published: 14 March 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3411-4Published: 18 July 2005
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 363
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education