In both higher education and other policy sectors, agencies have become a popular instrument adopted by governments to regulate the behavior of universities from a distance. This paper addresses this apparently common trend by proposing a typology of these agencies that assumes that evaluation agencies' autonomy is dependent upon not only legal powers but also the government's capacity to behave as a principal and to design, over time, coherent systemic governance modes. This typology is assessed through a comparative analysis of the roles and functions of evaluative agencies within the field of higher education in the UK, France, and Italy.
Same Governance Template but Different Agencies / Capano, Giliberto; Turri, Matteo. - In: HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY. - ISSN 0952-8733. - STAMPA. - 30:2(2017), pp. 225-243. [10.1057/s41307-016-0018-4]
Same Governance Template but Different Agencies
CAPANO, GILIBERTO;TURRI, MATTEO
2017
Abstract
In both higher education and other policy sectors, agencies have become a popular instrument adopted by governments to regulate the behavior of universities from a distance. This paper addresses this apparently common trend by proposing a typology of these agencies that assumes that evaluation agencies' autonomy is dependent upon not only legal powers but also the government's capacity to behave as a principal and to design, over time, coherent systemic governance modes. This typology is assessed through a comparative analysis of the roles and functions of evaluative agencies within the field of higher education in the UK, France, and Italy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
