The steering of higher education systems: a public management perspective

2008/04/16 by Ewan Ferlie, Ewan Ferlı́e, Christine Musselin +1 · 654 citations
Social Sciences · #Corporate governance #Economics #Education and Public Policy #Higher Education Governance and Development #Higher education #Law #Management #Narrative #New public management #Perspective (graphical) #Political science #Politics #Public Policy and Administration Research #Public administration #Public management #Public policy #Public relations #Public sector #Sociology #State (computer science)

paper · doi:10.1007/s10734-008-9125-5

published in Higher Education 56(3), 325-348 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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