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Beyond Neoliberalized Research : From Auditing to reflexive Governance
No full textFor many years, universities represented the ultimate outpost for professional autonomy in Western democracies. Despite little insight into the professional practices of scholars or administrators, governments provided the academic profession with extensive discretion, including the freedom to regulate qualifications for positions, terms for promotion, quality standards, goals, performance indicators and financial budgets. This freedom has become increasingly conditioned and strained during recent decades. Governments have commissioned universities to act like corporations to compete for funding, questioned established goals and performance indicators and enforced new market-based ideas in new governance models. These ideas, commonly described as “New Public Management,” include reforms to promote “academic excellence”, relevance of research outputs to policy-makers and practitioners, and high numbers of graduated students. In all, this has challenged the professional autonomy that previously was taken for granted and resulted in a changing professional practice at universities, largely inspired by a business ethos. Increasingly, however, governments have started to investigate alternative governance and leadership models, providing increased autonomy to the local levels and building on the intrinsic motivation of publicly employed professionals. This chapter describes and discusses Swedish experiences from a new approach to quality enhancement at universities, aiming to reduce the need for external control and strengthen the academic profession, while at the same time meeting external expectations with regard to transparency and performance. In its ideal form, the approach exemplifies, we argue, a shift from a top-down approach to quality assessment, to a trust-based bottom-up process, building on the judgement of academic professionals themselves
Oroliga liberaler
Full text link[Worried liberals]Review of Li Bennich-Björkman, Sverker Gustavsson & Mats Lindberg (eds.), Hålla huvudet kallt. Om distanserat engagemang i en uppjagad tid (Daidalos, Gothenburg 2023).Citation: Benner, Mats (2024) “Oroliga liberaler”, review in Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, issue 17, pp. 121–124. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.17.R2Recension av Li Bennich-Björkman, Sverker Gustavsson & Mats Lindberg (red.), Hålla huvudet kallt. Om distanserat engagemang i en uppjagad tid (Daidalos, Göteborg 2023).Förslag på källangivelse: Benner, Mats (2024) ”Oroliga liberaler”, recension i Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, nr 17, s. 121–124. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.17.R
Postskriptum till nedläggningen (och den möjliga återstarten) av Respons
Full text link[Postscript to the discontinuation (and possible restart) of the journal Respons]Mats Benner comments on the discontinuation of the Swedish journal Respons in relation to the main task of Swedish universities: to produce and mediate new knowledge, in the context where they operate.Citation: Benner, Mats (2023) “Postskriptum till nedläggningen (och den möjliga återstarten) av Respons”, in Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, issue 15, pp. 141–142. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.15.K1Mats Benner kommenterar nedläggningen av tidskriften Respons i förhållande till de svenska universitetens och högskolornas huvuduppgift: att skapa och förmedla ny kunskap, där de verkar.Förslag på källangivelse: Benner, Mats (2023) ”Postskriptum till nedläggningen (och den möjliga återstarten) av Respons”, i Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, nr 15, s. 141–142. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.15.K
Towards a smart society? : Innovation policy and the challenges of social inclusion, environmental resilience and sustainable growth
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