International Trends in University Governance

List of Contributors Series Editor's Introduction 1.The context of 'modernising' reforms in university governance The Humboldtian model: Germany, Norway, Finland 2. New forms of governance in Germany 3. Troublesome institutional autonomy. Governance and the distribution of authority in Norwegian universities 4. Finnish University Reform: background, conditioning circumstances and... the reality The Napoleonic model: France, Italy 5. The impact of recent reforms on the institutional governance of French universities 6. Autonomy for what? The university mission in a centralised higher education system-the case of Italy The Japanese model: Japan 7. Reforming national universities in Japan: implications for governance The historically incorporated model: the UK, Australia and the USA 8. University governance in the UK: bending the traditional model 9. International, hierarchical and market influences on Australian university governance 10. Academic governance in the US: implications of a 'commons' perspective 11. Autonomy, self government and the distribution of authority: international trends in university governance