To What Extent Does Transnational Communication Drive Cross-National Policy Convergence? The Impact of the Bologna-Process on Domestic Higher Education Policies

Autor/inn/en	Voegtle, Eva M.; Knill, Christoph; Dobbins, Michael
Titel	To What Extent Does Transnational Communication Drive Cross-National Policy Convergence? The Impact of the Bologna-Process on Domestic Higher Education Policies
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 61 (2011) 1, S.77-94 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-010-9326-6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Control Groups; Higher Education; Quality Control; International Education; Benchmarking; Educational Change; Organizational Communication; Educational Cooperation; Policy Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualitätskontrolle; Internationale Erziehung; Bildungsreform; Education; cooperation; Kooperation; Politikfeldanalyse
Abstract	This study investigates if transnational communication in the context of the Bologna Process (BP) has led to the convergence of higher education (HE) policies. The country sample includes both Bologna participants and non-participants, for which systematic knowledge about the implications of the BP is absent so far. We investigate study structures and quality assurance measures, which differ in their suitability for transnational benchmarking activities and are explicitly addressed by the BP. Our results show that convergent effects differ across policy dimensions and according to the subsamples. We generally find that convergence is greater for the participant countries than for the control group. However, convergence towards the HE policies of Bologna participants is detectable in the control group, albeit to a lesser degree. Thus, some HE policies have diffused beyond the members of the BP. This lends evidence that transnational communication can induce policy change even for countries not participating in the respective harmonization process. (Contains 9 footnotes and 8 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10