Reforming Higher Education

1. Introduction
Christine Musselin, Pedro N. Teixeira

Part I. Designing Policies in Higher Education

2. Public Policy Design and University Reform: Insights into Academic Change
David D. Dill

3. Reforming Universities in Italy: Towards a New Paradigm?
Emanuela Reale, Emilia Primeri

4. The UK Research Excellence Framework and the Transformation of Research Production
Sofia Branco Sousa, John L. Brennan

Part II. The Complexities of Policy Design in Higher Education – Some Lessons from Comparative Research

5. Reforming Portuguese Public Sector: A Route from Health to Higher Education
Teresa Carvalho, Sofia Bruckmann

6. The Development of PSE Systems in Canada: A Comparison Between British Columbia, Ontario and Québec (1980–2011)
Donald Fisher, Kjell Rubenson

7. Patterns of University Governance: Insights Based on an Analysis of Doctoral Education’s Management Reform
Lukas Baschung

Part III. Policy Effects at the Meso Level

8. Governance of Universities and Scientific Innovation
Dietmar Braun

9. Policy Pressures and the Changing Organization of University Research
Maria Nedeva, Kate Barker, Sally Ali Osman

10. Reforming Faculties’ Careers: The Swiss Labor Market Between Universalism and Particularism
Gaële Goastellec, Nicolas Pekari

11. The Conflict Between “New” and “Old” Governance Following the Introduction of Performance-Based Funding in German Medical Departments
Patricia Schulz

Nyckelord: Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education