This volume contains a comprehensive international discussion of
the state of the art of implementation analysis in higher education
and an extensive review of relevant recent literature. Starting
from the now classical 1986 book of Ladislav Cerych and Paul
Sabatier (1986), "Great Expectations and Mixed Performance: the
implementation of higher education reforms in Europe," Paul
Sabatier, A...se Gornitzka with Svein Kyvik and BjA, rn Stensaker,
and Maurice Kogan present a critical appreciation of that initial
work and a review and critical appraisal of current empirical
policy research in higher education.
In the second part, a set of chapters analyses the effective and
specific complexities of the implementation of higher education
policies in several countries, offering a wide variety of
situations both in terms of duration of implementation, legal
objectives, adequacy of causal theories underlying the reforms,
adequacy of financial resources and degree of commitment of the
main actors of the process. Some of these chapters use alternative
theoretical frameworks developed since the 1986 Cerych and Sabatier
theorization, to interpret the empirical results and some national
cases do not fall into the scope of Cerych and Sabatiera (TM)s
analysis. The national case studies are the following: Australia
(2), Austria, Finland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway,
Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the
United States. This variety of national cases, drawn from the world
of higher education, represents an updated collection of empirical
material analysed from the perspective of new theoretical
approaches to policy implementation.
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