Steering from a distance: Power relations in Australian higher education

摘要: Conventional liberal frameworks – in which power is seen asthe property of states, and repressive character, market stateexclude each other are unable to comprehend the recent changes inliberal government, including government systems institutions inhigher education. Neo-liberal rests on self-managing institutionsand individuals, free agents empowered act their ownbehalf but ‘steered from a distance’ by policy norms rules thegame. In universities government-created markets quasi-markets havebeen used advance both devolution central control, simultaneously,and national institutional management increasinglyimplicated other. These issues explored relation recenthigher education literature, empirically, latter examining thechanges Australian higher system last decade. TheAustralian provides an example quasi-market thedevelopment stronger management, introduction ofgovernment-institution negotiations over educational profiles, newsystems competitive bidding, performance qualityassessment have all been steer academic work install aprocess continuous self-transformation along modern neo-liberal lines.Following change 1996 there has some movement aquasi-market more fully developed economic market, no relaxation ofgovernment control.