The New Political Economy of Higher Education
Special issue of Higher Education edited by Johannes Angermuller, Jens Maesse, Tilman Reitz and Tobias Schulze-Cleven
The multidisciplinary contributions in this special issue provide new analytical tools to understand the competitive transformation of higher education in different national, institutional, and disciplinary contexts.
Full citation:
Angermuller, Johannes, Jens Maesse, Tilman Reitz and Tobias Schulze-Cleven, eds. 2017. The New Political Economy of Higher Education. Special issue of Higher Education 73(6): 795–997.
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Table of Contents
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Tilman Reitz, Jens Maesse & Johannes Angermuller, “The new political economy of higher education: between distributional conflicts and discursive stratification” (795-812)
Tobias Schulze-Cleven & Jennifer R. Olson, “Worlds of higher education transformed: toward varieties of academic capitalism” (813-831)
Heinz-Dieter Meyer & Kai Zhou, “Autonomy or oligarchy? The changing effects of university endowments in winner-take-all markets” (833-851)
Bob Jessop, “Varieties of academic capitalism and entrepreneurial universities” (853-870)
Tilman Reitz, “Academic hierarchies in neo-feudal capitalism: how status competition processes trust and facilitates the appropriation of knowledge” (871-886)
Oliver Wieczorek, Stephanie Beyer & Richard Münch, “Fief and benefice feudalism. Two types of academic autonomy in US chemistry” (887-907)
Jens Maesse, “The elitism dispostif: hierarchization, discourses of excellence and organizational change in European economics” (909-927)
Roland Bloch & Alexander Mitterle, “On stratification in changing higher education: the ‘analysis of status’ revisited” (929-946)
Julie Bouchard, “Academic media ranking and the configurations of values in higher education: a sociotechnical history of a co-production in France between the media, state and higher education (1976-1989)” (947-962)
Johannes Angermuller, “Academic careers and the valuation of academics. A discursive perspective on status categories and academic salaries in France as compared to the U.S., Germany and Great Britain” (963-980)
Terri Kim, “Academic mobility, transnational identity capital, and stratification under conditions of academic capitalism” (981-997)
