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Hard and Soft Managerialism in Portuguese Higher Education Governance

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Since the early 1990s the concept of governance has replaced the modern governing perspectives on policy-making and implementation and has assumed a central position in the public sector of political decision-making. This had impact on the relationship between governance and management, within which the latter has assumed a preponderance over the former, reflecting what has been referred to as managerialism (Magalhães & Santiago, 2012; Deem, 1998).

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Magalhães, A., Veiga, A., Videira, P. (2017). Hard and Soft Managerialism in Portuguese Higher Education Governance. In: Deem, R., Eggins, H. (eds) The University as a Critical Institution?. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-116-2_3

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