The re-regulation of the Italian university system through quality assurance. A mechanistic perspective. Capano, G. Policy and Society.
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This paper traces the developments of quality assurance in the Italian university system since the early 1990s. Based on the theoretical assumption that the ‘quality assurance’ label covers a wide range of different mixes of policy tools by means of which governments regulate (substantially at a distance) the systemic dynamics of their university systems, this paper adopts a mechanistic perspective in order to show how the Italian version of quality assurance, and of the respective NPM policy tools, has been significantly affected by the ambiguity of governments’ approaches to the question, and by the basic inability of universities to perform as corporate actors. This has resulted in quality assurance policy becoming yet another set of formal rules to be complied with, and has had the effect of partially re-centralizing the governance of the entire university system.
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	title = {The re-regulation of the {Italian} university system through quality assurance. {A} mechanistic perspective},
	issn = {1449-4035},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1449403514000356},
	doi = {10.1016/j.polsoc.2014.08.001},
	abstract = {This paper traces the developments of quality assurance in the Italian university system since the early 1990s. Based on the theoretical assumption that the ‘quality assurance’ label covers a wide range of different mixes of policy tools by means of which governments regulate (substantially at a distance) the systemic dynamics of their university systems, this paper adopts a mechanistic perspective in order to show how the Italian version of quality assurance, and of the respective NPM policy tools, has been significantly affected by the ambiguity of governments’ approaches to the question, and by the basic inability of universities to perform as corporate actors. This has resulted in quality assurance policy becoming yet another set of formal rules to be complied with, and has had the effect of partially re-centralizing the governance of the entire university system.},
	urldate = {2014-08-29},
	journal = {Policy and Society},
	author = {Capano, Giliberto},
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