New Public Management: Global Reform Script or Conceptual Stretching? Analysis of University Governance Structures in the Napoleonic Administrative Tradition

Autor/inn/en	Donina, Davide; Paleari, Stefano
Titel	New Public Management: Global Reform Script or Conceptual Stretching? Analysis of University Governance Structures in the Napoleonic Administrative Tradition
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 78 (2019) 2, S.193-219 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-018-0338-y
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Change; Governance; Case Studies; Administrative Organization; Cross Cultural Studies; Educational Policy; Universities; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Italy; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Politics of education; University; Universität; Ausland; Globales Denken; Italien
Abstract	Higher education (HE) reforms are usually inspired by New Public Management (NPM) global reform scripts. This article focuses on a pivotal object of NPM-driven reforms--central university governance structures. On the one hand, we present the founding ideas of NPM and sketch how they translate for these structures; on the other hand, two further ideal-type public management narratives to conceptualize reforms (Network Governance and Neo-Weberianism) are presented and we deduct the ideal-type institutional governance structures according to each. Then, we take Italy and Portugal as case studies--two countries in the Napoleonic administrative tradition where previous research has stressed that HE reforms differ from the NPM ideal--and we develop a multi-level analysis (at policy and university levels) to compare their central institutional governance structures with the NPM-driven ideal. Our findings show that both countries present hybrid reform outcomes with similar choices in several aspects that differ from the NPM-driven practical outcomes; thus, a specific regional variance is recognizable. Yet, these structures reflect the Neo-Weberian founding ideas rather than those of NPM. The research implications and possible explanations to reconcile the decoupling between discursive convergence on NPM global reform scripts and Neo-Weberian reform outcomes are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01