Higher education policy has become a more salient issue in modern states as universities are increasingly important for societal and economic development. This leads to an increased politicisation of this policy area. At the same time, there is a lack of comparative scholarship studying the politics of higher education policy on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the gap that this recently published volume addresses.
This volume provides an overview of the state of the art of research on the politics of higher education policy in Canada, the US, and Western Europe. The book covers five key aspects of policymaking, namely the politics of governance as well as funding reforms, the role of interest groups, policy diffusion, and policy framing. The conceptual framework is anchored in approaches from institutional theory, namely sociological and historical institutionalism discussing the tension between global influences and national legacies.
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