Convergent institutional logics in public higher education: State policymaking and governing board activism

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-234

  Bastedo, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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