1. Editorial

   • Roddy Begg

   EditorialNotes Pages: 177 - 178

2. An agenda for research and policy analysis

   • Maurice Kogan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 188

3. On courtiers, panders and other bodies intermediary

   • Guy Neave

   OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 197

4. From participation to competition: Changes in the notion of decentralization in Swedish higher educational policy

   • Berit Askling
   • Edgar Almén

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 210

5. Responses of academe to quality reforms in higher education: A comparative study of england and Sweden

   • Marianne Bauer
   • Mary Henkel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 228

6. Cybernetic institutional management theory and practice: A system of flexible workload for university teachers

   • Seppo Hölttä
   • Kirsi Karjalainen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 236

7. Policy development and educational research: The Hungarian experience

   • János Setényi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 247

8. Conflict and interaction in central and east European higher education: The triangle of red giants, white dwarfs and black holes

   • Voldemar Tomusk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 257

9. The role of external experts’ intervention in higher education institutions for radical change

   • Jaime Jiménez
   • Juan C. Escalante
   • José Aguirre-Vázquez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 266

10. Book reviews

    • Frank A. Schmidtlein
    • Leo Goedegebuure

    BookReview Pages: 267 - 269