Reforming higher education in the Netherlands and Norway: The role of the state and national modes of governance

Policy Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 479-495

  Maassena, Peter ^a   Moen, Eli ^b   Stensaker, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Governance; Higher education reform; Implementation; Norway; Regulation; The netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053255979     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2011.566721     Document Type: Article

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