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In recent years major shifts in the internal governance of universities occurred as a corollary of NPM-inspired reforms. Whereas the academic profession traditionally had a strong role in the internal steering of their institution, academic self-governance has been replaced by more top-down management practices in many higher education systems. This chapter attempts to analyse this shift by taking into account the views of the academic profession regarding their influence, participatory rights and perceptions of governance schemes prevailing at their institution in order to provide an overview of the state of reform and an assessment of the various university governance regimes in the countries represented in the EUROAC survey.
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With the – short lived – exception of the ‘group university’ in the 1970s and 1980s, for example, in Austria (UOG 1975), Germany (HRG 1976) and the Netherlands where more democratic decision-making structures also tried to integrate students and nonprofessorial staff more strongly by increasing their representation and voting power in university committees.
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Also, stronger vertical differentiation between institutions.
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The average of ten countries, not weighted.
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Park, E. (2013). From Academic Self-Governance to Executive University Management: Institutional Governance in the Eyes of Academics in Europe. In: Teichler, U., Höhle, E. (eds) The Work Situation of the Academic Profession in Europe: Findings of a Survey in Twelve Countries. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5977-0_9
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