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Zitierlink DOI
10.26092/elib/2161
Verlagslink DOI
10.1093/publius/pjy005

Explaining Policy Convergence and Polity Divergence in Federal Systems: German and Swiss Higher Education Revisited

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2018
Autoren
Dobbins, Michael  
Niemann, Dennis  
Martens, Kerstin  
Zusammenfassung
This article explores higher education reforms in the federally organized education systems of Germany and Switzerland. We argue that the increasing internationalization of education—spearheaded by the Bologna Process—has brought about changes not only in higher education policy, but also led to significant reconfigurations of the higher education polity. These processes present an empirical puzzle: while higher education policies in both systems have broadly moved in the same direction, they have significantly diverged regarding the higher education polity. While Germany has decentralized its higher education system, Switzerland has embraced more centralized structures. Drawing on historical institutionalism, we explain why Germany and Switzerland reacted to essentially identical external challenges with diametrically opposite polity reforms. We contend that this “polity divergence”—despite “policy convergence”—was channeled by the preexisting institutional configurations of educational federalism which steered partisan conflicts along specific paths.
Schlagwörter
Policy Convergence

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Polity Divergence

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Federal Systems

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Higher Education
Verlag
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Institution
Universität Bremen  
Fachbereich
Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08)  
Institute
Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)  
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Publius: The Journal of Federalism  
Band
48
Heft
4
Startseite
1
Endseite
29
Zweitveröffentlichung
Ja
Dokumentversion
Postprint
Lizenz
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sprache
Englisch
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