Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education

Edited by Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University, US, Hamish Coates, Tenured Professor, Tsinghua University's Institute of Education, and Deputy Director, Tsinghua University Global Research Centre for the Assessment of College and Student Development, China and Roger King, Visiting Professor, School of Management, University of Bath, UK

'An impressive feature of the Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education is the elegant economy with which it incorporates multiplicity, ambiguity and contestation into clear conceptual and organisational frameworks, beginning with a simple two-way matrix comprising social analysis, social action; rational choice, power and conflict. The array of international contributors includes, amongst others, political theorists and political scientists, economists and sociologists, administrators, managers, institutional leaders, finance specialists and policy advisers. They draw on their higher education research, scholarship, consultancy, practice and policy development in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, and Africa, as well as Latin America and the Middle East.'--Mary Henkel, retired from Brunel University London, UK'The Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education is much the best available collection of its kind and the editors are to be congratulated. Topic coverage by the distinguished group of contributors is great, and starting with Brian Pusser's brilliant opening chapter, that sweeps across the field, there's a real excitement in much of the writing. This is sharp and authoritative analysis of the politics of higher education, like a coiled spring, for an increasingly political time-a time in which universities themselves are likely to become more political in future.'--Simon Marginson, University College London, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education and Editor-in-Chief, Higher Education'Politics surrounds academic life. The state, the organization, its actors, and the policies that get developed in tertiary education all function by way of political frameworks. What makes this Handbook useful is not only that it is comprehensive, but also that it crosses national boundaries and provides a geopolitical understanding to complex topics. The authors are experts in the field and the topic is of timely import. Thoughtful. Useful. Provocative.'--William G. Tierney, University of Southern California, US

• Contents:Introduction: The politics of higher educationBrendan Cantwell, Hamish Coates and Roger KingPART 1 THE UNIVERSITY, STATE AND SOCIETY1. The State and the Civil Society in the Scholarship of Higher EducationBrian Pusser2. Trust, universities and the stateGwilym Croucher and Glyn Davis 3. The politics of university governance and United Kingdom devolutionAndrew M. Boggs and Robin Middlehurst4. Transformations of higher education institutions in the Chinese traditionRui Yang5. The Social Dimension of Higher Education: reproductive and transformativeJohn BrennanPART II POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE6. Global higher education governanceDirk Van Damme and Marijk Van der Wende7. Global higher education and variegated regionalismsSusan L. Robertson8. The geopolitics of academic scienceBrendan Cantwell and Adam Grimm9. Scientific nationalism in a globalizing worldCreso Sá and Emma Sabzalieva10. Soft power projection: The political return on investment in international higher educationChristopher Ziguras11. The geopolitics of higher education: pursuing success in an uncertain global environmentAngel CalderonPART III PLANNING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION12. National resource allocation decisions in higher education: Objectives and dilemmasBenedetto Lepori and Ben Jongbloed13. Higher education funding in the context of competing demands for government expenditureDieter Dohmen14. The Political Economy of the Higher Education Contribution SchemeBruce Chapman and Timothy Hicks15. The political economy of Thailand’s income contingent and allowance loan (TICAL) scheme: A personal accountMedhi Krongkaew16. Using workforce data to plan higher education degree programsCharles A. Goldman and Diana G. Carew17. The politics of funding for research and developmentAlan Pettigrew and Åsa OlssonPART IV REGULATION AND QUALITY18. Risk-based regulation in higher education: Why, how, when, and what else?Roger King19. Regulating diversity: The challenges of regulation in pluralistic higher education systems, A UK Case StudyElizabeth Halford20. Tertiary regulation in Asia: Emerging modelsDorte Kristoffersen, Susanna Lee and Rob Fearnside21. Regulating higher education: National audit explosions in international marketsMartin Lodge22. Transparency is the lynchpin for higher education successHamish Coates, S. Umesha Weerakkody, Emeline Jerez, Michael Wells and Stefan PopeniciPART V THE POLITICS OF STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS23. Stakeholder organizations and multi-level governance of higher educationMartina Vukasovic24. The gender politics of higher educationRosemary Deem25. Neoliberalism and faculty roles: The politics of academic workAdrianna Kezar and Tom DePaola26. Student politics: Between representation and activismManja Klemenčič and Bo Yun Park27. University-industry collaborationPeter Rohan and Kenneth Moore28. Skills and learning gain(s) in twenty-first-century higher education: Politics or policy?Robert WagenaarIndex