Steering from a distance: power relations in Australian higher education.

Autor/in	Marginson, Simon
Titel	Steering from a distance: power relations in Australian higher education.
Quelle	In: Higher education, 34 (1997) 1, S. 63-80Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 40
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560; 1573-174X
DOI	10.1023/A:1003082922199
Schlagwörter	Australien; Effizienz; Hochschulreform; Marktwirtschaft; Staat; Steuerung; Wettbewerb; Hochschule; Hochschulverwaltung; Hochschulpolitik; Deregulierung; Steuerung; Staat; Finanzen; Marktwirtschaft; Wettbewerb; Hochschulpolitik; Hochschulreform; Hochschulverwaltung; Hochschule; Deregulierung; Dezentralisierung; Effizienz; Australien
Abstract	Conventional liberal frameworks ... are unable to comprehend the recent changes in liberal govemment, including the government of systems and institutions in higher education. Neo-Iiberal government rests on self-managing institutions and individuals, in which free agents are empowered to act on their own behalf but are 'steered from a distance' by policy norms and rules of the game. In the universities government-created markets and quasi-markets have been used to advance both devolution and central control, simultaneously, and national government and institutional management are increasingly implicated in each other. These issues are explored in relation to recent higher education literature, and empirically, the latter by examining the changes in the Australian higher education system in the last decade. The Australian system provides an example of a quasi-market in which the development of a stronger institutional management, the introduction of government-institution negotiations over educational profiles, and the new systems of competitive bidding, performance management and quality assessment have all been used to steer academic work and to install a process of continuous self- transformation along modern neo-Iiberal lines. Following a change of govemment in 1996 there has been some movement from a quasi- market to a more fully developed economic market, but no relaxation of government control. (DIPF/Abstract übernommen)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	1998_(CD)