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Jens Jungblut works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel. He received his PhD from the University of Oslo. His main research interests include party politics, policy-making, and public governance in the knowledge policy domain (higher education and research), organizational change in higher education, and the role of (academic) expertise in policymaking.
Martin Maltais is professor of financing and education policies at Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR). As proximity manager, he is a key player in the development of higher education and digital policies in Québec (Canada). Author of several papers, reports and communications concerning education and higher education policies and funding as well as distance education, he was chief of staff and political advisor to four Ministers of Higher Education and Education in Québec over the last ten years.
Erik C. Ness is professor of higher education and graduate coordinator in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. He teaches and conducts research on higher education politics and policy. His recent work examines research utilization-the extent to which policy makers rely on research evidence to craft policy-in the adoption and implementation of various state higher education policy initiatives. Ness earned a BA in political science at North Carolina State University, an MA in comparative and international education at Loyola University Chicago, and a PhD in education policy from Vanderbilt University.
Deanna Rexe is adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education and an affiliated scholar with the Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership and Policy at Simon Fraser University, and vice president academic at Assiniboine Community College. Her research examines the relationship between decision contexts and higher education policy choices. As a practitioner and academic leader, she is interested in service, policy, and governance interventions to support increased access and success in higher education.
Foreword: Åse Gornitzka.-
1. The politics of higher education policy in Canada, the US, and Western Europe - An introduction.-
Jens Jungblut, Martin Maltais, Erik Ness, and Deanna Rexe.-
Section A - The politics of higher education governance reforms.-
2. The Politics of Higher Education Governance Reform in Western Europe.-
Jens Jungblut, and Michael Dobbins.-
3. The Politics of Higher Education Governance Reform in the United States.-
Paul G. Rubin.-
4. The Politics of Higher Education Governance Reforms in Canada.-
Theresa Shanahan.-
5. The Politics of Higher Education Governance: Comparative Perspectives.-
Glen A. Jones.-
Section B - The politics of higher education finance.-
6. Politics of Higher Education Funding in (Western) Europe - and Beyond.-
Julian Garritzmann.-
7. Higher Education Finance in the United States: Sources of Funding and Impacts of State Investments.-
Sophia Laderman, Kristen Cummings, Jason C. Lee, David Tandberg, and Dustin Weeden.-
8. Financing Higher Education in a Federal System: The Case of Canada.-
Dan Lang, Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant, and Martin Maltais.-
Ben Jongbloed.-
Section C - Framing of higher education policy.-
10. Policy Framing in Higher Education in Western Europe: (Some) Uses and (Many) Promises.-
Meng-Hsuan Chou, Mari Elken, and Jens Jungblut.-
11. Policy Framing in Higher Education in the United States.-
Cecilia M. Orphan, and Casey McCoy-Simmons.-
12. Policy Framing in Higher Education in Canada.-
Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Michelle Nilson, and Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée.-
13. Policy framing in Canada, the US, and Western Europe - a comparison.-
Bjørn Stensaker.-
Section D - Intermediary organizations and interest groups in higher education policy.-
14. Interest groups and intermediary structures in higher education policy in Western Europe.-
Martina Vukasovic.-
15. Interest Groups in Higher Education in the US.-
Erik C. Ness, and Sean M. Baser.-
16. Intermediary organizations and organized interests in higher education policymaking in Canada.-
Deanna Rexe, Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant, and Martin Maltais.-
17. Interest groups and intermediary organizations in Higher Education policy in Western Europe, United States, and Canada.-
Jean Bernatchez, Martin Maltais, and Émanuelle Maltais.-
Section E - Policy transfer and diffusion in higher education.-
18. The Bologna Process as a multidimensional architecture of policy diffusion in Western Europe.-
Michael Dobbins, Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann, and Eva Maria Vögtle.-
19. Policy Diffusion in U.S. Higher Education.-
Denisa Gándara, and Cameron Woolley.-
Deanna Rexe, Kathleen Clarke, and Eric Lavigne.-
21. Emerging Work on Tertiary Policy Diffusion in North America and Western Europe.-
James C. Hearn, and Ijaz Ahmad.-
Section F - Comparison and conclusion.-
22. Same same, but different? Comparing the politics of higher education policy in Western Europe, Canada, and the U.S..-
Martin Maltais, Jens Jungblut, Erik Ness, and Deanna Rexe.-
