Michael Shattock is Visiting Professor at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK.Aniko Horvath is Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is Researcher at the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) at the University of Oxford, UK.Jurgen Enders is Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of Bath, UK.

Assuming a comparative stance and drawing on rich empirical material, this book represents a major contribution to the knowledge on higher education governance in Europe.

• Series Editor’s ForewordIntroduction1. The State and the Institutions2. Institutional Diversification, Regional Disparities and System Management3. The ‘Modernisation’ of Institutional Governance4. The Changing Participation of the Main Actors in the Governance of European Universities5. The Changing Idea and Role of Universities in Europe6. Convergence and Divergence in the Developing Governance of European Higher EducationReferencesWorks CitedIndex