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State, Market and Institution in German Higher Education – New Governance Mechanisms Beyond State Regulation and Market Dynamics

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State and Market in Higher Education Reforms

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In many, perhaps nearly all European countries, national higher education systems have been subjected to far-reaching reforms at system and at institutional level during the last decades. One of the most significant reforms embraced the implementation of new steering concepts and procedures. The modernization of organization, governance, management and funding of higher education systems and institutions has become a central concern in most European countries even if there are still many national variations in the reform process. One of the key words in this process has been “market”, referring to the establishment of market-oriented procedures of steering, despite the fact that it has often been not really clear what a market is in higher education.

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  2. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico

    Germán Álvarez Mendiola

  3. Athabasca University, Canada

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Wolter, A. (2012). State, Market and Institution in German Higher Education – New Governance Mechanisms Beyond State Regulation and Market Dynamics. In: Schuetze, H.G., Mendiola, G.Á., Conrad, D. (eds) State and Market in Higher Education Reforms. Comparative and International Education, vol 13. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-800-1_10

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