INVITED ARTICLE – SPECIAL ISSUE
Change in university governance structures in continental Europe
Åse Gornitzka,
Peter Maassen,
Harry de Boer,
Åse Gornitzka
Department of Political Science and Arena - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Search for more papers by this authorPeter Maassen
Department of Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Search for more papers by this authorHarry de Boer
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Search for more papers by this authorÅse Gornitzka,
Peter Maassen,
Harry de Boer,
Åse Gornitzka
Department of Political Science and Arena - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Search for more papers by this authorPeter Maassen
Department of Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Search for more papers by this authorHarry de Boer
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Search for more papers by this authorFunding information: Research Council of Norway, Grant/Award Number: 212422; University of Oslo
Abstract
This article discusses changes with respect to university governance structures in six comprehensive universities in Europe. We present an analytical framework on the basis of which we conduct a comparative analysis of the university governance structures along four different dimensions: (a) the internal democratic nature of the governance structure, (b) the external involvement in university governance, (c) the level of centralisation of decision-making authority in the university and (d) the concentration of authority in an individual leadership position versus authority in a collective body or spread over various collective bodies.
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