Higher Education Reform in Italy: Tightening Regulation Instead of Steering at a Distance

Autor/inn/en	Donina, Davide; Meoli, Michele; Paleari, Stefano
Titel	Higher Education Reform in Italy: Tightening Regulation Instead of Steering at a Distance
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 28 (2015) 2, S.215-234 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2014.6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Educational Change; Governance; State Universities; Government Role; Educational Legislation; Laws; Power Structure; College Administration; Educational Policy; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Staatliche Universität; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Law; Recht; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Politics of education; Italien
Abstract	In December 2010, a comprehensive reform (Law 240/2010, or "Gelmini reform") changed the institutional governance and internal organization of Italian state universities. This paper investigates the redefinition of the state role in the light of public management reform narratives, linking them to the Governance Equalizer Model to evaluate how the on-going reform process has affected the power sharing arrangement and coordination mechanisms in the Italian higher education system thus far. Rhetoric of reform was influenced by the New Public Management narrative; Law 240 was presented as a fundamental change to the traditional Italian governance regime, based on detailed state regulation and academic self-governance. In practice, contradictions between the rhetoric of the reform and the effectiveness of implementation are evident: Italian reform complies more with the Neo-Weberian narrative and it did not have any substantial impact on power distribution. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01