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4 - Institutional Governance

Factors, Actors, and Consequences of Attempting to Converge on the Anglo–American Model

from Part II - Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2020

By
Marino Regini
Edited by
Giliberto Capano  and
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Giliberto Capano
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
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Summary

This chapter considers the national reforms that all the European governments have continuously designed and implemented. These reforms have been inspired by the same common template — the Anglo-American university governance model, actively promoted by the European Union — but national strategies have clearly interpreted this template according to their inherited legacies, and national reforms have subsequently been elaborated and implemented by the universities’ internal actors — with their power resources, culture, learning abilities — which have acted as ‘filters’ vis-à-vis the planned reforms. Even more importantly, as shown in this chapter, this has meant that the consequences of national reforms of university governance have largely differed from the expected results.

Keywords

European universitiesinstitutional governanceunintended consequencesNew Public ManagementCollective Leadership
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Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
Comparative Perspectives
 , pp. 103 - 137
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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