The state and the quality agenda: A theoretical approach

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 475-491

  Filippakou, Ourania ^a   Tapper, Ted ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ideology; policy analysis; power; quality; reification

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649506013     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: 17403863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2010.19     Document Type: Article

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