Academic Power -- A Comparative Study of Higher Education Management Systems in Seven Countries

Author: (Canada) John Van de Graaff, et al. (editors), Wang Chengxi, et al. (translators)
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Features: The original title of this book is Academic Power: A Comparative Study of the Organization of Higher Education in Seven Countries. It is a collective research achievement of a research team led by Burton Clark, a professor of sociology and director of the Higher Education Research Institute at Yale University (currently director of the Comparative Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles). This is a specialized comparative higher education monograph. The structure of academic power is a significant issue in higher education leadership systems. In recent years, many works on higher education have been published in the West, but few have focused on the analysis of academic power. This book employs analytical models from disciplines such as organizational sociology, comparative political science, and public administration to conduct studies and comparative analyses of the academic power structures in higher education in seven countries: the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Structurally, the book is divided into two parts, in addition to the introduction: the first part is studies, which introduces the traditional power structures and recent higher education reforms in each country, facilitating comparison for readers. The second part is comparative analysis, where Professor Goldschmidt discusses the characteristics of higher education systems and the transformation of decision-making models in each country. Professor Clark clarifies the basic concepts of academic power, summarizes four models of academic power in the seven countries—namely the European model, the British model, the American model, and the Japanese model—and proposes four analytical perspectives: hierarchical analysis, integration and differentiation analysis, development analysis, and interest analysis, which help deepen the understanding of higher education systems.