The Evaluative State, Institutional Autonomy and Re-engineering Higher Education in Western Europe

Part I. A World Set Upside Down

1. Setting the Scene
Guy Neave

2. Autonomy and the Changing Contract between the State and Higher Education
Guy Neave

3. The Evaluative State: A Formative Concept and an Overview
Guy Neave

4. The Significance of Evaluative Homogeneity
Guy Neave

Part II. Re-engineering Two Higher Education Systems

5. France: The Asterix Syndrome and the Exceptional Case
Guy Neave

6. Strengthening the Evaluative State: Strategy, Values and Rhetoric
Guy Neave

7. Discord Dissected: The ‘New University’ and some of its Discontents
Guy Neave

8. Spain: Defining Autonomy, Setting Up Evaluation
Guy Neave

Part III. Portugal: A Focused Account

9. Portugal: Laying out the Higher Education Landscape
Guy Neave

10. The Dynamic in Portugal’s Higher Education Policy
Guy Neave

11. Re-focusing Institutional Autonomy: The Portuguese Decree Law of 2007
Guy Neave

12. Reform at the Cutting Edge: The Institutional Level
Guy Neave

13. Portuguese Higher Education Reform: Four Key Dimensions
Guy Neave

Part IV. The Promise of the Evaluative State Evaluated

14. A Flight over the Evolving Evaluative State
Guy Neave

15. Back to the Future
Guy Neave

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Political Science, Curriculum Studies