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From Bologna to Lisbon: the political uses of the Lisbon 'script' in European higher education policy
No full textThis contribution explores the transformation of higher education
policy from the mere co-ordination of educational curricula by national governments
to the embodiment of the Lisbon Agenda’s ‘governance architecture’, together with
its impact on national policies, institutions and actors. It does so by charting change
in both policy outputs and policy outcomes in four different European countries –
England, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy – and by relating these changes to the
ideational and organizational aspects of the Lisbon Strategy. We suggest that Lisbon
acted as a ‘script’ to be followed by national governments and other policy actors,
enabling them to gradually adapt to Lisbon-induced ideational and organizational
pressures, and to shape national organizational and communicative discourses that
can overcome entrenched interests and transform the prevailing perception of
higher education so deeply rooted in national cultural and policy tradition
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